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We’ll bust open a sea chest full of Baroque treasures on today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network. Harpsichordist Elena Zamolodchikova and violinist Natalie Kress will perform music by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, William Byrd, Girolamo Frescobaldi, and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer.

The program was presented on December 7, 2017 at St. Bartholomew’s Church, 50th Street and Park Avenue, in Midtown Manhattan, where free lunchtime concerts are held every Thursday at 1:15 p.m. The 2017-2018 schedule has run its course, but concerts will resume in the fall.

Today’s broadcast is made possible in part by Gotham Early Music Scene, or GEMS. GEMS is a non-profit corporation 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 and updates to GEMS’ events calendar, look online at gemsny.org.

Then we bid farewell to landlocked humidity and strike out for the high seas. We’ll feel the spray in our faces and the wind in our hair, courtesy of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “A Sea Symphony,” Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Water Music” (written in celebration of the centennial of the Hamburg Admiralty), and Anton Rubinstein’s “Ocean” Symphony.

Start queuing up now for your mermaid tattoos. It’s anchors aweigh, from 12 to 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.