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.

Mothers are scarcely mentioned and sometimes not even named in the biographies of the great composers. But on Mother's Day Sunday Matinée puts musical mothers in the spotlight. Many composers were much influenced by their mothers, who were often also their first music teachers - Bizet, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky, to name only three. Join David Bouchier on Mother's Day for a program about these hidden histories, and some grand music by mothers, sons and daughters.

Among the highlights (Subject to change):

  • Johannes Brahms: Cradle Song
  • Clara Schumann: Three Romances for Violin and Piano
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Suite (Excerpts)
  • Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in d
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: My Spirit be Joyful
  • Georges Bizet: Symphony no. 1 in C (adagio)
  • Giacomo Puccini: Cristantemi
  • Sir Edward Elgar: Serenade for String Orchestra in e
  • George Frideric Handel: Overture, Minuet and Gigue (Berenice)
  • Leo Delibes: Coppelia: Ballet Suite (excerpts)
  • Modest Mussorgsky: Intermezzo in b
  • Josef Suk: About Mother
  • Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Flute and Piano
  • Edvard Grieg: At the Cradle
  • Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
  • Charles Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette
  • Fanny Mendelssohn (Hensel): Piano Trio in D
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus Overture
  • Camille Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals (The Swan)
  • Mikhail Glinka: Russlan & Ludmilla, overture
  • Gustav Holst: St. Paul's Suite
  • Enrique Granados: Valses Poeticos
  • Antonin Dvorak: Songs my Mother Taught Me

    • Join David Bouchier for *Music for Mother's Day* on Sunday Matinee, from 1 till 6, right after Sunday Baroque, only on WSHU and WSUF.

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