As we brace ourselves for a double nor’easter, I cast a skeptical eye at the calendar on this, the First Day of Spring. Then I gaze wistfully into my bag full of spring-related CDs. Surely there is some music here suitable for driving away Old Man Winter, a guest who has overstayed his welcome, drunk too much, and broken more than a few valuables.

Following today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network, and in defiance of the weather, we’ll offer blood sacrifices to the pagan gods, with Frank Bridge’s “Enter Spring,” Lodewijk Mortelmans’ “The Myth of Spring,” Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” and Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky’s “The Snow Maiden,” all in the interest of appeasing mercurial Nature.

First, we’ll be laying down the Lawes – William Lawes, that is – on today’s Noontime Concert. Join me for a program of Lawes’ consort music, as presented by Parthenia Viols. The performances were recorded at New York’s Church of Saint Luke in the Fields last May. Parthenia will present a concert of “Tomb Sonnets,” featuring works by Josquin des Prez, Carlo Gesualdo, and Giovanni Gabrieli, among others, on March 25 at The Secret Theatre in Long Island City. To find out more, look online at parthenia.org.

We’ll take viol music over vile weather, from 12 to 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

IMAGE: Princeton’s own Patrick McDonnell tells it like it is