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.

Sunday Matinée this week turns the spotlight on Great Performers - the instrumental virtuosi, past and present, who set the standards of excellence for all other musicians. Hear the superb music of such brilliant performers as Ithzak Perlman, Emmanuel Ax, and Yo Yo Ma, with stories and anecdotes about their lives.

Among the highlights (subject to change):

  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Fur Elise (Murray Perahia)
  • Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in e (Yehudi Menuhin)
  • Franz Liszt: Piano sonata in b (Artur Rubinstein)
  • Francisco Tarrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Julian Bream)
  • Franz Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C (Jacqueline du Pre)
  • Claude Debussy: Petite Suite No . 1 (James Galway)
  • Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in d (Jascha Heifetz)
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in d (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
  • Jean-Joseph Mouret: Rondeau (Wynton Marsalis)
  • Fritz Kreisler: Liebesfreud (Itzhak Perlman)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Six Little Preludes (Glenn Gould)
  • Henry Purcell: Suite of Dances (Andres Segovia)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo for Violin and Orchestra (Isaac Stern)
  • Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas in G and C (Vladimir Horowitz)
  • Scott Joplin: Bethena - a Concert Waltz (Jean-Pierre Rampal)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 in D - selection (Yo-Yo Ma)
  • Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs (Anne-Sophie Mutter)
  • Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in e (Emmanuel Ax)

Join David Bouchier for Great Performers 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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