Get ready for a morning of musical time travel on WPRB, as composers of the “present” look to the past to create works of lasting beauty.

Among our featured selections will be a suite for recorders by Ralph Vaughan Williams, a “distant saraband” by Joaquin Rodrigo, three Gesualdo madrigals recollected by Igor Stravinsky, an update of the Baroque dance suite by Paul Lansky, some Renaissance Scottish dances by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, an orchestral juxtaposition of popular dances of the eras of both Elizabeths by William Alwyn, some variations on two cantigas of Alfonso the Wise by Vittorio Rieti, an organ processional in the French Baroque style by Robert Moran, and a Vespers setting for choir and Renaissance band by Kile Smith.

If the playlist is to your liking, perhaps you’d like to sustain the mood by attending the Guild for Early Music Festival this afternoon at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ. This year’s festival will take place on the two stages of the Seward Johnson Center for the Arts, from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Enjoy mini-concerts for cornetti, dulcians, recorders, and violas da gamba, then take a break to stroll the grounds and grab a cup of coffee – just keep an eye out for those peacocks! You’ll find more information at guildforearlymusic.org and groundsforsculpture.org.

The music takes pride of place, this Sunday morning from 7 to 10 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. I’ll be operating under my nom de plumage on Classic Ross Amico.