Get ready for a lively lunch hour of Baroque and Rococo music courtesy of Gotham Early Music Scene (GEMS). On today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network, we’ll hear selections from two of GEMS’ Downtown Concerts: Tableau Vivant will present a program titled “Telemann in Paris,” consisting of Telemann’s “Paris Quartets;” then the New York Classical Quartet will perform Luigi Boccherini’s String Quartet in F major, Op. 64, No. 1.

Concerts in GEMS Downtown Concerts series are held at Saint Bartholomew’s Church, 50th St. and Park Avenue, in midtown Manhattan. You’ll find a complete schedule of free lunchtime performances at midtownconcerts.org.

In addition, GEMS presents evening concerts, such as “Christmas at the Court of Henry VIII,” with music by Robert Fayrfax, which will be performed by the early music choir Polyhymnia (at the Church of St. Ignatius of Antioch on November 11); and “Viennese Masters,” with quartets by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, which will be performed by the period instrument ensemble House of Time (at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens on November 17, and at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on November 18). You’ll find more information about GEMS, in this, its tenth anniversary season, at gemsny.org.

Then stick around for more music, with yours truly, until 4:00 EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Luigi Boccherini: Rococo never looked so intense