November afternoons are tailor-made for reflection, music and beauty.

Pour yourself something warming, and then join me for a potpourri of birthday observances, as we’ll celebrate the music of composers Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Francisco Tárrega and Malcolm Williamson, and performances by pianists Géza Anda (Bartók) and Idil Biret (Chopin) and conductor James DePriest (Lars Erik-Larsson), with a few other surprises along the way (I’m thinking Bach, Pablo de Sarasate, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Jean Sibelius).

It will all come your way today between 4 and 7 p.m. EST. I’ve the perfect mug for radio, so tune in to WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.