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.

Every year at this time we celebrate Valentine's Day with a whole afternoon of delightful music for lovers and dreamers. Join our pre-Valentine's Day celebration this Sunday, with some of the greatest romantic classics from Beethoven, Bizet, Ravel, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and many more, and a chance to support your local public radio station too.

Among the highlights (subject to change):

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Magic Flute (overture)
  • Joaquin Rodrigo : Concierto de Aranjuez
  • Sir Edward Elgar: Salut d'amour
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Dance of the Blessed Spirits)
  • Fritz Kreisler : Liebedfreud
  • Emile Walfteufel: Love and Spring Waltz
  • Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2
  • Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 ("The Romantic")Volksfest Finale
  • Antonio Vivaldi : Guitar Concerto in D (largo)
  • Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (prelude & Liebestod)
  • Giacomo Puccini: Visi d'arte... from Tosca
  • George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (from 1920s piano roll)
  • Maurice Ravel: Bolero
  • Alexander Borodin: Nocturne for String Orchestra
  • Enrique Granados : La Maja de Goya
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven : Fur Elise
  • John Field: Nocturne No.12 in G
  • Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in a (selection)
  • Leonard Bernstein: "Tonight" (Balcony Scene)from West Side Story
  • Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo & Juliet - Suite No. 1 (selection)
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture (love theme)


Join David Bouchier for Music for Your Valentine 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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