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.

The Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall are the highlight of the London music season. On Sunday Matinée this week you can hear music from three of the most popular programs of the 2006 series in a single afternoon - plus a highlights from the boisterous last night of the proms in 1994. Join David Bouchier for the 2006 Promenade Concerts, featuring works that celebrate the anniversaries of Mozart and Shostakovich.

Among the highlights (Subject to change):

Concert of July 14, 2006 (First Night)

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Overture
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Marriage of Figaro, Porgi amor...
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo, Oh smania!
  • Bedrich Smetana: Ma Vlast, The Moldau
  • Antonin Dvorak: Te Deum
  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in d

Concert of August 2, 2006

  • Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D "Classical"
  • Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations (selection)
  • Sir Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 in C
  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Concerto No. 1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings

Concert of August 15, 2006

  • Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in a "Scottish"
  • Robert Schumann: Manfred Overture
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D

Concert of September 8, 2006(one selection)

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D "Haffner"

Final Night Concert, September 9, 2006 (selection)

  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Festive Overture
  • Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor - "No sleep, no rest..."
  • Sir Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs (from 1994)
  • Thomas Arne: Rule Brittania (sung by Bryn Terfel) (from 1994)
  • Traditional: Jerusalem (sung by audience)


Join David Bouchier for *The Promenade Concerts 2006* 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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