Even an uptown listener like you will want to tune in for today’s Noontime Concert from the Downtown Concert Series in Freehold.

The East End Quartet (made up of saxophonists Jonathan Wintringham, Myles Boothroyd, Matthew Amedio, and Timothy Harris) will join pianist Szu-Yi Li to present an eclectic and engaging program of music, including a fresh interpretation of Antonin Dvořák’s beloved Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81.

Also featured will be two of “Las Cuatros Estaciones Porteñas” (“The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires”), Astor Piazzolla’s response to Antonio Vivaldi’s masterwork, though of course from Piazzolla’s perspective, living as he did in the Southern Hemisphere, the significance of the individual seasons can be quite different.

In between will be Graham Lynch’s “Symphony Cocteau,” a tribute to the multifaceted artist, who produced poetry, plays, films, novels, and visual art. Perhaps you were on hand for “Picture Perfect” on Friday, when I presented selections from George Auric’s score for Cocteau’s “La belle et la bête” (posted as a webcast here: http://wwfm.org/post/picture-perfect-may-11-cinematic-fairy-tales). Cocteau is also credited with having coined the name by which Auric and his colleagues – Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre, and Louis Durey – are collectively known, “Les six.”

The concert took place on February 17 at historic St. Peter’s Church in downtown Freehold, NJ. The Downtown Concert Series is curated by Mark Hyczko. Hyczko will conduct the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra in music by Christopher Cerrone, Howard Hanson, Mason Bates, and Bela Bartok in Freehold this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The program will be repeated on Sunday at 5 p.m. at Christ Church in New Brunswick. For more information, visit downtownconcertseries.org and newbrunswickchamberorchestra.org.

Following today’s Noontime Concert broadcast, I hope you’ll stick around for more music, beginning with two works by Piazzolla compatriot Alberto Ginastera, including his Harp Concerto, with soloist Ann Hobson Pilot. (Pilot was Rachel Katz’s guest on “A Tempo” this past Saturday; you can listen to the webcast here: http://wwfm.org/post/tempo-interviews-cleveland-institute-music-honorees-pilot-huang.) I’ll be spinning the platters until 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.