For many, January 2 means back to work. But not for Carl Hemmingsen.

Join me this afternoon on The Classical Network, as I fill in for my hard-working, though still-vacationing, radio colleague.

First, I’ll be your host for today’s Noontime Concert, from Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center in New York City, a recital featuring violinist Chloé Kiffer and pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine. On the program will be “Fratres” by Arvo Pärt, the “Suite Italienne” by Igor Stravinsky (after “Pulcinella”), and violin sonatas by Richard Strauss and Maurice Ravel.

Then, immediately following the concert broadcast, which should conclude before 1:30, I’ll have a musical remembrance of violinist Jaap Schröder, who died on Tuesday at the age of 94.

As we approach 2:00, you’ll be the indirect beneficiary of the largesse of my friends and family, as I share some of the bounty of this year’s Christmas haul. I’ll be reaching into my stocking for newly-acquired music by George Antheil, Ruth Gipps, Wilfred Josephs, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Karl Weigl.

New Year’s is over, but there’s still plenty of peppermint and wassail in our tanks, from 12 to 4 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.