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!
Ensemble Amarcord
Canadian Brass
City of London Sinfonia
Stephen Layton, conductor
Cambridge Singers
John Rutter, conductor
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
Phoenix Chorale
Christopher Gabbitas, conductor
Voces8
Three Botticelli Pictures: Adoration of the Magi
Respighi: Ancient Airs And Dances I & Iii, Etc
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Tu scendi dalle stelle (You descended from the heavens)
Met Stars At Christmas
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Anton Guadagno, conductor
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
BBC Concert Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Ayako Shinozaki, harp
Chanticleer
Choral Arts Ensemble
David Dickau, conductor
Dale Warland Singers
Dale Warland, conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Richter, conductor
Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
Pavel Snajdr, conductor
New York Pops
Skitch Henderson, conductor
Magnum Chorum
Christopher Aspaas, conductor
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner, conductor
Sarahbanda
Sarah Willis, horn
12 Ensemble
Ola Gjeilo, piano
Saint Louis Chamber Chorus
Philip Barnes, conductor
Voce Chamber Choir
Mark Singleton, conductor
Jack Anthony Pott, tenor
Carol of the Bells
Voces8 and Voces8 Scholars
Lviv National Philharmonic
Serhii Khorovets, conductor
Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin
Handel and Haydn Society Chorus
Grant Llewellyn, conductor
Chicago a cappella
RTE Concert Orchestra
Gavin Sutherland, conductor
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra
John Georgiadis, conductor
James Galway, flute
St. Olaf Choir
Anton Armstrong, conductor
Copper Street Brass Quintet
Vasari Singers
Jeremy Backhouse, conductor
Martin Ford, organ
Miro Quartet
Chanticleer
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
David Willcocks, conductor
Simon Preston, organ
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Mack Wilberg/Ryan Murphy, conductor
Rolando Villazon, tenor
Canadian Brass
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Imani Winds
Cantus
Hiram Titus, piano
City of London Sinfonia
Stephen Layton, conductor
Etherea Vocal Ensemble
Grace Cloutier, harp
Carducci Quartet
Alexandra Whittingham, guitar
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Shaw, conductor
The Singers
Matthew Culloton, conductor
Pro Arte Singers
Paul Hillier, conductor
New Dublin Voices
Bernie Sherlock, conductor
Academy of Ancient Music Berlin
Rene Jacobs, conductor
Phoenix Chorale
Christopher Gabbitas, conductor
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska, conductor
Dallas Brass
Betsey Sesler, harp
Musica Sacra
Richard Westenburg, conductor
Dale Warland Singers
Dale Warland, conductor
Ronald Hasselmann, trumpet
Roger Wagner Chorale
Roger Wagner, conductor
El Noi de la Mare (The Son of the Virgin)
Stille Nacht: Christmas Carols for Guitar
Rossini Hayward, guitar
Roman Nagel, piano
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
John Morris Russell, conductor
Bengt Forsberg, piano
Choral Arts Ensemble
RCA Victor Singers
Richard Westenburg, conductor
Black Dyke Band
Nicholas Childs, conductor
Emily Mitchell, harp
