During these shortest days of the year, we can use all the light we can get. With four candles in the menorah last night, we’ll celebrate the third day of Hanukkah with a complete recording of Handel’s other holiday oratorio, “Judas Maccabaeus.” A complete performance of the piece will come your way this afternoon on WWFM, following today’s noontime concert.

Today’s midday broadcast will highlight the Brooklyn-based concert venue, National Sawdust. Included will be performances by the Chiara String Quartet, which has been stunning audiences with its performances of all six string quartets by Béla Bartók from memory, and the violinist Francesca Anderegg, a new music champion, who will perform Clint Needham’s “On the Road” and selections from Reinaldo Moya’s “Imagined Archipelago.”

After that, we’ll get a Handel on the Maccabees. What’s old is new, and what’s new is played as if it were standard repertoire, today between 12 and 4 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.