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 on Sunday Matinée we have a new program in our occasional "Musical Cities" series. This is a very rich theme indeed - The Musical Cities of Germany. So you can expect to hear a lot of grand music and some fascinating stories about musical life in (in order of appearance)Hamburg, Lübeck, Dusseldorf, Mannheim, Weimar, Leipzig, Dresden, and Berlin - cities that are at the heart of European musical history. Special thanks to my old friend Dr. David Lee in England - musicologist and Germanophile extraordinaire - for the splendid material he generously provided for this program.

Among the highlights (subject to change):

  • Georg Phillip Telemann: Overture Alster" (selection)
  • Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach: Symphony No. 6 in E
  • Johannes Brahms: German Requiem (excerpt)
  • Dietrich Buxtehude: Praeludium in g for organ
  • Archangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso No. 8 (4th mvmt.)
  • Robert Schmann: Cello Concerto
  • Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (adagio)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin & Viola in E-flat K364 (allegro maestoso)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Double Concerto in d BWV1043
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Trumpet Concerto (allegro con spirito)
  • Franz Liszt: Faust Symphony (2nd mvmt. Gretchen)
  • Richard Wagner: Lohengrim, Prelude to Act 1
  • Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in e
  • Franz Schubert: The Wanderer (lied)
  • Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon Overture
  • Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen "Curious Story"
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: A Musical Offering, Ricercare a6
  • Max Bruch: Violin Concerto (adagio)
  • Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Waltz Sequence
  • Kurt Weill: Threepenny Opera Suite


Join David Bouchier for The Musical Cities of Germany 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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