Listen to an expertly curated stream of classical Christmas & holiday music, available around the clock this Winter season.
YourClassical MPR’s live broadcast of 'A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols' from King's College, Cambridge, with host Michael Barone, has ended and on-demand audio is no longer available. Join us on Christmas Eve 2025 for another unforgettable service.
Here is a day-by-day guide to all of our special holiday programming for the 2024 season, from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve.
We offered a variety of classical specials for the holiday season, from Christmas to New Year's Day. Did you miss one? Catch up any time that's convenient using this comprehensive listing. Listen now!
You ranked your favorite holiday tunes. Now, they’ve been compiled into ‘YourClassical Christmas Favorites,’ hosted by Tom Crann and Valerie Kahler. Listen now!
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra presents a program intertwined with comedy and tragedy featuring music by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Haydn and Sibelius. Listen to the concert now!
For one and a half centuries, St. Olaf College has been a hub of connections, knowledge and growth. And for more than a century, the St. Olaf Christmas Festival has been a cherished part of that history. Join us as we celebrate their legacy.
Each December, the Center for Faith and Life at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, rings out with the sacred and the exuberant: the sounds of the Christmas season. Enjoy the 2023 program, ‘Love, the Rose, Is on the Way.’
Christmas With Cantus weaves together holiday stories with time-honored carols and new classics. Blending narration and song, the program offers an opportunity to reflect on the meaning and joy of the holiday season. Listen now!
Celebrate the season with song! Steve Staruch hosts this one-hour program of holiday favorites, new and old, presented live in concert by Chanticleer, the two-time Grammy-winning 12-man ensemble known as ‘an orchestra of voices.’
This year’s annual residency by the Voces8 U.S. Scholars at Minnesota Public Radio attained new heights thanks to a special appearance by Lyyra. They joined forces for the holiday classic ‘Ding Dong Merrily on High’ before the Scholars went solo for a delightful ‘God Rest Ye Merry, Gentleman.’ Watch now!
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor
Susann McDonald, harp
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor
Edward Scissorhands: Castle on the Hill
Edward Scissorhands Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Studio Orchestra
Shirley Walker, conductor
Conrad Tao, piano
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Adrian Leaper, conductor
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Bjarte Engeset, conductor
RIAS Chamber Choir
Rene Jacobs, conductor
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Matthias Bamert, conductor
Symphonie Fantastique: March to the Scaffold
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Liszt - Solti
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti, conductor
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano, conductor
Andrew Wan, violin
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel, conductor
Salut Salon
Ensemble Dreiklang
Boston Pops Orchestra
John Williams, conductor
Vienna Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta, conductor
Ulster Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa, conductor
Hans Fagius, organ
Cleveland Orchestra
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles
John Williams, conductor
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Cologne Radio Orchestra
Helmut Froschauer, conductor
Michael Lewin, piano
Berlin Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado, conductor
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Louis Langree, conductor
Natalie Dessay, soprano
