This Tuesday at noon on The Classical Network, we present another gem from GEMS – Gotham Early Music Scene – as the ensemble Marginalia enlivens your lunch hour with a program of medieval French music. The broadcast will feature selections from the 13th century, including songs of the trouvères and troubadours, as well as instrumental dances. Marginalia consists of Dongmyung Ahn, rebec and vielle; Christa Patton, harp, pipe and tabor; and Peter Walker, bagpipe and voice.

Today’s program was recorded at St. Bartholomew’s Church, 50th Street and Park Avenue, in Midtown Manhattan. The next Midtown Concert will take place there this Thursday at 1:15 p.m., when Hollinshead & Bass (mezzo-soprano Barbara Hollinshead and lutenist and guitarist Howard Bass) will present “Time, Cruell Time!,” with music reflective of the passage of time by Thomas Campion, Robert Johnson, John Dowland, and others. You’ll find a complete schedule of free lunchtime performances at midtownconcerts.org.

In addition, GEMS presents evening concerts. Talisman Medieval (David Yardley, countertenor and harp, and Christopher Preston, tenor and harp) will present a program of medieval and newly-composed medieval-inspired music, this Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Church of the Transfiguration, 1 East 29th Street, Manhattan.

On Sunday at 4 p.m., Juilliard415 will present “Madness and Enchantment,” with Luigi Boccherini’s Sinfonia in D minor “From the House of the Devil,” Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Burlesque de Quixotte,” and excerpts from Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen.” Jonathan Cohen will direct, at Corpus Christi Church, 529 West 121st Street, Manhattan.

Gotham Early Music Scene is a non-profit organization that supports and promotes artists and organizations in New York City devoted to early music – music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classical periods. For more information on these and other programs presented by GEMS, look online at gemsny.org.

Then stick around – among my featured works this afternoon, between 12 and 4 p.m. EST, will be a concerto by Anton Rubinstein and a symphony by Eduard Tubin. Rubinstein is fine, and we’re cruisin’ for some Tubin, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.