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!
Choral Arts Ensemble
Michael Culloton, conductor
Artaria Quartet
Megan Metheney, harp
Dale Warland Singers
Dale Warland, conductor
James Galway, flute
Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Robert Shaw, conductor
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Hugh Wolff, conductor
Thomas Hampson, baritone
In Dulci Jubilo
Voces8
The Summer Singers
Vicki Peters, conductor
Pentatonix
RTE Concert Orchestra
Gavin Sutherland, conductor
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Philip Ledger, conductor
Thomas Trotter, organ
Clare College Singers
John Rutter, conductor
Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison, conductor
Canadian Brass
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Graham Ross, conductor
Isthmus Brass
Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
Andrew Nethsingha, conductor
John Challenger, organ
Pacific Chorale
John Alexander, conductor
Eaken Piano Trio
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Craig Jessop, conductor
New Century Chamber Orchestra
Dawn Harms, conductor
Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano
Lviv National Philharmonic
Serhii Khorovets, conductor
Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin
Berlin Philharmonic
Semyon Bychkov, conductor
Chanticleer
South Dakota Chorale
Pittsburgh Symphony Brass
Quittez, pasteurs (Come leave your sheep)
The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album / Rutter
Cambridge Singers
John Rutter, conductor
Cantus
St. Charles Singers
Jeffrey Hunt, conductor
Choir of New College, Oxford
Edward Higginbottom, conductor
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
David Willcocks, conductor
Alexis Ffrench, piano
Voce Chamber Choir
Mark Singleton, conductor
Musica Sacra
Richard Westenburg, conductor
It Came upon the Midnight Clear
Welcome Christmas: Carols and Lullabies from Around the World
VocalEssence
Philip Brunelle, conductor
Amahl and the Night Visitors: Dance Suite
Barber: Souvenirs; Menotti: Sebastian, Amahl and the Night Visitors
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Schenck, conductor
Renaissonics
Raphael Feuillatre, guitar
Slovak National Symphony Orchestra
Allan Wilson, conductor
Rolando Villazon, tenor
Boston Pops Orchestra
John Williams, conductor
Handel and Haydn Society Chorus
Grant Llewellyn, conductor
Arturo Delmoni, violin
The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin
Desmond Earley, conductor
Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia
Peter Breiner, conductor
Christ is the Morning Star
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Graham Ross, conductor
Essential Voices USA
Judith Clurman, conductor
James Cunningham, piano
Three French Carols (Ding Dong; O Come Emmanuel; Angels We Have Heard on High)
Christmas with Solid Brass
Solid Brass
Artaria Quartet
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Christmas Carols at King's with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury, conductor
David Briggs, organ
Wake, Awake, for Night is flying
Christmas At St. Olaf 2010: A Child, A Son, The Prince of Peace
St. Olaf Choir
Anton Armstrong, conductor
Chanticleer
Copper Street Brass Quintet
Vienna Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Leontyne Price, soprano
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska, conductor
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Mack Wilberg/Ryan Murphy, conductor
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
USAF Singing Sergeants
Lowell E. Graham, conductor
Seattle Symphony
Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, conductor
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Voces8
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
John Rutter, conductor
Linda Chatterton, flute
Cologne Radio Orchestra
Helmut Froschauer, conductor
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel, conductor
Ensemble Dreiklang
Minnesota Orchestra
Eiji Oue, conductor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti, conductor
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Bjarte Engeset, conductor
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Shaw, conductor
Scythian Suite: The Enemy God and the Dance of the Spirits of Darkness
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky; Lieutenant Kije; Scythian Suite
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik, conductor
Houston Symphony Orchestra
Sergiu Comissiona, conductor
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel, conductor
Vienna Philharmonic
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Susann McDonald, harp
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Lorin Maazel, conductor
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Matthias Bamert, conductor
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils
Strauss: Rosenkavelier, Salome's Dance, Burleske Fastival Prelud
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Franz Welser-Most, conductor
New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp, conductor
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Night on Mount Triglav: Sabbath of the Infernal Spirits and Infernal Rondo
Rimsky-Korsakov: Suites
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev, conductor
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel, conductor
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano, conductor
Salut Salon
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti, conductor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Yondani Butt, conductor
Yundi Li, piano
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel, conductor
Virgil Fox, organ
Vienna Philharmonic
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Berlin Philharmonic
Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
Maxence Larrieu, flute
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Stephen Hough, piano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Charles Groves, conductor
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa, conductor
Krystian Zimerman, piano
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel, conductor
Cleveland Orchestra
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Moscow Chamber Orchestra
Constantine Orbelian, conductor
Nina Kotova, cello
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel, conductor
Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic
Jose Serebrier, conductor
Michael Lewin, piano
Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Laszlo Kovacs, conductor
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Bjarte Engeset, conductor
Clara Rockmore, theremin
Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Cloud
Star Trek: The Motion Picture Original Soundtrack - 20th Anniversary Collectors' Edition
Studio Orchestra
Jerry Goldsmith, conductor
Der Erlkonig (The Elf King)
Bach-Busoni, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Liszt: Music without Words
Murray Perahia, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka, conductor
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi, conductor
Scythian Suite: The Enemy God and the Dance of the Spirits of Darkness
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky; Lieutenant Kije; Scythian Suite
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Shaw, conductor
Steven Osborne, piano
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Mariss Jansons, conductor
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Conrad Tao, piano
Vienna Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta, conductor
Hagai Shaham, violin
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel, conductor
Night on Mount Triglav: Sabbath of the Infernal Spirits and Infernal Rondo
Rimsky-Korsakov: Suites
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev, conductor
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Louis Langree, conductor
Natalie Dessay, soprano
City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Paul Bateman, conductor
Philadelphia Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor
Werewolf By Night: Mane Title
Marvel Studios' Werewolf By Night (Original Soundtrack)
Studio Orchestra
