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.

After the excitement of Halloween, and before the stress of The Holidays, Sunday Matinée this week offers a whole afternoon of simply relaxing music. The program includes some peaceful, happy songs by Gluck, Handel, and Schubert, Beethoven's string quartet Op. 132, Finzi's Eclogue, and a whole lot more music designed to soothe the anxious soul and lower the blood pressure. Join David Bouchier for "Time to Relax" on Sunday Matinée

Among the highlights (subject to change):

  • Georg Friederich Handel: "Art Thou Troubled" from Rodelinda
  • George Butterworth: Banks of Green Willow
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite No. 3 in b
  • Alexander Glazunov: "Autumn" from The Seasons
  • Henry Purcell: An Evening Hymn
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Canzona from String Quartet No. 15 in a
  • Frederick Delius: In a Summer Garden
  • Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C
  • Gerald Finzi: Eclogue for piano and string orchestra
  • Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (two choral movements)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute and Harp Concerto in C
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves
  • Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Young Prince and Princess" from Scheherazade
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in c
  • Claude Debussy: Elegie
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in e (andante cantabile)
  • Jay Ungar: The Ashokan Farewell
  • Edward Grieg: Solveig's Song from Peer Gynt
  • Franz Schubert: An Die Musik
  • Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in f


Join David Bouchier for *Time to Relax* 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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