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.

Before television and video games came along, home entertainment was often provided by live music performed at home by family and friends. This small-scale "chamber music" has become a favorite part of the classical repertoire. Join David Bouchier this Sunday for the first part of "Sounds Intimate - the Pleasures of Chamber Music" with dozens of delightful examples composed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. On August 20, a second program will introduce the chamber music of the modern age.

Among the highlights:

  • Giovanni Gabrielli: Sonata for Three Instruments
  • Henry Purcell: Fantasia for Three Violins d
  • Archelangelo Corelli: Recorder Sonata No. 12 in g
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Musical Offering - Rirecare a 3
  • Georg Friedrich Handel: Flute Sonata No. 9 in b
  • Franz Josef Haydn: String Quartet "The Lark" in D
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C "Dissonant" K465 (selection)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in a "Kreutzer"
  • Franz Schubert: Stric Quintet in C (selection)
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D (andante cantabile)
  • Antonin Dvorak: Bagatelles Op. 47
  • Claude Debussy: String quartet g op. 10
  • Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose Suite (selection)
  • Sir Edward Elgar: Harmony Music No. 2 for wind quintet
  • Darius Milhaud: La Cheminée du Roi Renée (selection)
  • Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat
  • Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-flat
  • Felix Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat


    • Join David Bouchier for * Sounds Intimate - the Pleasures of Chamber Music (Part One)* on Sunday Matinee, from 1 till 6, right after Sunday Baroque, only on WSHU and WSUF.

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