Sunday afternoons are special on WSHU. Every week, David Bouchier puts a different spin on classical music - anecdotes about the great composers, poetry, musical history, and even musical jokes. Sunday Matinée may explore the hidden links between music and literature, composers' letters, music for a special season of the year, or music designed to make you think. Whatever the theme, David Bouchier gives classical music a new dimension on Sunday afternoons.

On the first day of 2006 we have a program of Musical Firsts, about beginnings and new beginnings. Even the greatest composers had to start somewhere, and we'll hear and hear about some remarkable musical firsts - Brahms's first piano concerto, Beethoven's first overture, Bizet's first (and last) symphony, as well as some famous first nights, first prizes, and selections from the famous New Year concerts given each year by the Vienna Philharmonic.

Among the highlights (subject to change):

  • Franz Waxman: Variations on Auld Lang Syne
  • Johann Strauss II: Voices of Spring (Vienna Concert)
  • Camille Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 1 in E-flat
  • Antonin Dvorak: Slavonic Dance No. 1
  • Carl Maria von Weber: Symphony No. 1 in C
  • Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in g
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G (first prize)
  • Claude Debussy: Prelude a l'après midi d'un faune (first night)
  • Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in d
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 1 in C
  • Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No. 1
  • Georges Bizet: Symphony No. 1 in C (excerpt)
  • Johann Strauss: Radetzky March (Vienna Concert)
  • Charles Hubert H.Parry: Symphony No. 1 (selection)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Overture (Vienna Concert)
  • Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana - intermezzo (first and only success)
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1


    • Join David Bouchier for Musical Firsts on Sunday Matinee, from 1 till 6, right after Sunday Baroque, only on WSHU and WSUF.

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