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.

Our program this week is about how music has changed over the centuries - highlighting some of the most dramatic turning points. Join David Bouchier for a grand tour through a thousand years of music history, from the 10th century to the beginning of the 20th. The second part of this two-part series, focusing on modern music, will be aired on January 22. We'll choose music that typifies each century, and to focus on those moments when the form or style of music changed.

Among the highlights:

Early Music - Before 1650

  • Anonymous: Gregorian Chant
  • Hildegard von Bingan: Studium Divinitatis
  • Guillaume Dufay: Kyrie
  • Guillaume de Machaut: Dame qui toute ma joie vient
  • Josquin Desprez: Goodbye My Loves
  • John Dowland: Awake Sweet Love
  • Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta Was... (madrigal)

    • The Age of Baroque - 1650 - 1750

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in d
  • George Frideric Handel: Concerto Grosso No. 1 in G
  • Henry Purcell: Selections from Dido & Aeneas

    • Classical Music - 1750-1820

  • Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No 94 "Surprise"
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A

    • The Romantic Movement - 1804-1900

  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat
  • Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (selection)
  • Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A "Italian"
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
  • Franz Schubert: Die Forelle (lied)
  • Frederic Chopin: Etudes No. 5 & 12
  • Richard Wagner: Tannhauser finale
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco - Hebrew Slaves Chorus

    • The Early Modern Era - 1900 - 1925

  • Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (selection)
  • Claude Debussy: Nocturnes for Orchestra
  • George Gershwin: Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra


    • Join David Bouchier for Evolution and Revolution in Music: Part One on Sunday Matinee, from 1 till 6, right after Sunday Baroque, only on WSHU and WSUF.

    This program is produced in the Long Island Studio of WSHU & WSUF, on the campus of Suffolk County Community College in Selden, New York.

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