You might find a new favorite piece of music by joining us for New At Noon, Wednesdays on WGUC. We begin the 12 p.m. hour with the newest music in our library, introducing you to up-and-coming contemporary artists and tracks we’ve never shared. Grab lunch with on-air host Elaine Diehl and discover the latest from today’s performing artists!

New Nordic Pocket Concertos

This album comprises world premiere recordings of seven new Nordic violin concertos, all composed for soloist Niklas Walentin and the Danish Chamber Players, that reinterpret the Romantic violin concerto into a condensed chamber music format that was suggested by the many limitations and restrictions on large gatherings imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic

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Cover Girl

Critically acclaimed harpist Ashley Jackson presents an EP of artistic arrangements of music by four icons of popular music: Whitney Houston, Nina Simone, Dolores O’Riordan, and Pakistani singer-composer Arooj Aftab

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Emporium: Music of Aldo Lopez-Gavilan

Praised for his “dazzling technique and rhythmic fire,” Cuban pianist and composer Aldo López-Gavilán excels in both the classical and jazz worlds as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber-music collaborator, and performer of his own electrifying compositions.

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Arvo Part: Arefa

A tribute to Estonian composer Arvo Part for his 90th birthday this year. This album includes several rarely heart short works for solo piano as well as classics like “Fratres” and “Spiegel im Spiegel”

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Piano Heroines

“Piano Heronies” showcases music by several women composers of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, and Florence Price

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Nadia

American woodwind quintet Windsync’s tribute to legendary 20th-century composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulangers, including several works by some of her notable pupils.

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Support for ‘New at Noon’ comes from the Rockwern Charitable Foundation, as well as, the Sarah Marvin Foundation.