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.

From Beethoven to Birtwistle, composers have flocked to the countryside and ploughed the fields for inspiration. This week on Sunday Matinée David Bouchier unearths the rustic roots of pastoral music in a program that includes the great Pastoral symphonies of Beethoven and Vaughan Williams, and much more great summertime music for your enjoyment on the first Sunday in August.

Among the highlights subject to change:

  • Aaron Copland: Midsummer Nocturne
  • Antonio Vivaldi: Summer from The Four Seasons
  • Frederic Delius: Summer Night on the River
  • Albert Doppler: Hungarian Pastorale Fantasy
  • Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (overture)
  • Sergei Prokofiev: Summer Day, Op. 65b
  • James Oswald: A Summer Floral Suite (Heliotrope)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony # 6 in F, "Pastoral"
  • Alessandro Scarlatti: Sonata in d, K.9, "Pastorale"
  • Lars Erik Larsson: Pastoral Suite, Op. 19
  • Bach, CPE: Pastorale for Oboe & Bassoon
  • Josef Suk: A Summer's Tale (First movement)
  • Frederick Delius: Songs to be Sung on a Summer Night
  • Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto Pastoral for Flute and Orchestra
  • Samuel Barber: Summer Music
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Seasons - August
  • Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Summer
  • Percy Grainger: Pastoral
  • George Butterworth: Banks of Green Willow
  • Gerald Finzi: Let us Garlands Bring - Five Shakespeare Songs
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3 "Pastoral"

Join David Bouchier for *A Summer Pastorale* 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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