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 Matinee 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. Coming soon: Child Prodigies in Music, and Music, Food and Wine. Whatever the theme, David Bouchier gives classical music a new dimension on Sunday afternoons.

Winter is a time to hibernate, batten down the hatches, catch up on our reading and do all those creative indoor tasks we never quite managed to do all last year. And if it snows, well, we can ski or skate, walk in the woods, or just enjoy the scenery from the comfort of a nice, warm room. Sunday Matinée this week celebrates the pleasures of winter with sparkling music and seasonal poetry by Shakespeare, Longfellow and Robert Frost and others.

Among the highlights:

  • Antonio Vivaldi : The Four Seasons (Winter)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: German Dances #3 - Sleigh Ride
  • Emile Waldteufel : The Skaters' Waltz
  • Rick Sowash: Winter from Four Seasons in Belleville
  • Ottorino Respighi : Ancient Airs & Dances Suite No. 2 "Bergamesque"
  • Edvard Grieg : Holberg Suite
  • Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden
  • Frederic Chopin : Etude #23 in a "Winter Wind"
  • Thomas Augustine Arne: Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Symphony #1 in g "Winter Daydreams"
  • Sergei Prokofiev: Winter Bonfire
  • Jean Sibelius : Finlandia
  • Traditional: In the Bleak Midwinter
  • Edvard Grieg : Peer Gynt ("Morning Mood")
  • Alexander Glazunov : The Seasons (ballet) "Winter"
  • Lawrence Ashmore : The Four Seasons (English Folk Songs) "Winter"
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky : The Nutcracker "Waltz of the Snowflakes"
  • Sergei Prokofiev : Lieutenant Kiji Suite "Troika"
  • Edvard Grieg : Norwegian Dances
  • Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Piano Concerto #3 (allegro brillante)

Join David Bouchier for The Music of Winter 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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