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.

This week we are celebrating Mozart's 250th birth anniversary. He was born on January 27, 1756, and proved to be a child way above the average, composing his first symphony at the age of six. Felix Mendelssohn was another amazingly gifted child, as was Beethoven. The history music is full of such child prodigies, and you can meet them this week on Sunday Matinée.

Among the highlights:

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Oboe Concerto in C
  • Ludwig van Beethoven : Piano Sonata No. 26 Les Adieux
  • Gioacchino Rossini : The Thieving Magpie Overture
  • Johannes Brahms : String Sextet No. 2 in G
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony #5 in B-flat (early symphony)
  • Car Maria Von Weber: Concertino for Clarinet & Orchestra in E-flat
  • Franz Schubert : Symphony No. 8 in b ("Unfinished")
  • Frederic Chopin : Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise
  • Henry Purcell : Trumpet Tune and Gigue
  • Felix Mendelssohn : Fair Melusina Overture
  • Franz Liszt : Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1
  • Muzio Clemente : Adagio Sostenuto in f from Gradus ad Parnassum
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat (1st movement)
  • Benjamin Britten: Playful Pizzicato from Simple Symphony
  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Festive Overture
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven: Egmont Overture
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony No. 41 in C ("Jupiter")

Join David Bouchier for Child Prodigies in Music 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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