Today’s Noontime Concert will come our way courtesy of Philadelphia’s Astral Artists. Astral laureates the Jasper String Quartet will be joined by Annie Wu, flutist, for a program of music by Mozart, Debussy, Takemitsu, Ginastera, and Pulitzer Prize winner (and Princeton University PhD candidate) Caroline Shaw. The concert was recorded in Benjamin Franklin Hall at the American Philosophical Society. Tune in this Tuesday at 12 p.m.

Then stick around for a recent recording of Shaw’s “To the Hands,” her contribution to a project initiated by the Philadelphia-based chorus, The Crossing, which invited seven contemporary composers to come up with musical responses to Dietrich Buxtehude’s 1680 collection, “Membra Jesu nostri patientis sanctissima” (“Most Holy Limbs of Our Suffering Jesus”), often referred to, affectionately, as the “limb” cantatas.

At around 2:00, our featured work will be a symphony by Anton Bruckner, which we’ll hear in a transcendent performance conducted by Sergiu Celibidache.

We’ll go out on a limb today, and more, from noon to 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

PHOTO: Composer Caroline Shaw – in 2013, at the age of 30, she became the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music