It will be difficult to ignore the Nordic today on The Classical Network.

Join me at noon for a broadcast concert featuring Mélomanie, the Delaware-based ensemble that specializes in provocative pairings of early and contemporary works. On the program will be sonatas by Swedish baroque composers Johan Helmich Roman and Johan Joachim Agrell, as well as works for electric violin by Icelander Eva Ingolf and American Mark Hagerty. Ingolf’s “Lava Flow” was inspired by the image of an erupting volcano. Hagerty’s “Raven Thoughts” alludes to Odin’s ravens, Huginn (Thought) and Muninn (Memory). The odd man out will be Sergio Roberto de Oliveira, whose “Angico” was inspired by his family vacation home in the Brazilian mountains.

Mélomanie’s next concert will be held at The German Society of Pennsylvania, 611 Spring Garden Street, in Philadelphia, on January 29 at 3 p.m. To find out more about Mélomanie, visit the ensemble’s website, at melomanie.org.

Following the broadcast concert, stick around for a major work by Jean Sibelius. I’ll be especially stoic as I quaff my mead today from noon to 4:00 EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.