There will be no hiding from Haydn, and we’ll revel in Ravel, on today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network, as we bring you another program from Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center. The award-winning Verona Quartet will perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 50, No. 1 “Prussian” (1787) and Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F major (1903).

Kaufman Music Center is located at 129 West 67th Street in New York City. The center is home to Merkin Concert Hall, as well as Lucy Moses School, a community arts school for all ages, and Special Music School, a K-12 public school for musically gifted children. Merkin’s Tuesday Matinee series presents rising stars from all over the world, which have won some the most prestigious international prizes and have delighted audiences on the stages of major concert halls both here and abroad.

The next program in the series will feature pianist Xuesha Hu. She will perform Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata, Samuel Barber’s Sonata in E minor, Mendelssohn’s “Scottish Fantasy,” and Liszt’s “Dante” Sonata. The concert will take place on February 6 at 2 p.m. You’ll find more information, including a complete schedule, at kaufmanmusiccenter.org.

Following today’s concert broadcast, I hope you’ll stick around for music by the late Finnish master Einojuhani Rautavaara, among my featured composers, between 12 and 4 p.m., on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

PHOTO: Two gentlemen – and ladies – of Verona