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 National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka, 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
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
Suite No. 1: In a Haunted Forest
Recordings Of The Society For The Preservation Of The American Musical Heritage
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Krueger, conductor
John O'Conor, piano
Edward Scissorhands: Castle on the Hill
Edward Scissorhands Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Studio Orchestra
Shirley Walker, conductor
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Orchestra de la Suisse Romande
Kazuki Yamada, conductor
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel, conductor
2CELLOS
Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman): Overture
Klemperer Conducts Wagner: Album I
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer, conductor
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer, conductor
Andras Keller, violin
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
RIAS Chamber Choir
Rene Jacobs, conductor
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Jose Serebrier, conductor
Ensemble Dreiklang
London Symphony Orchestra
John Williams, conductor
Philharmonia Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
Susann McDonald, harp
Vienna Philharmonic
Andre Previn, conductor
Cologne Radio Orchestra
Helmut Froschauer, conductor
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Byelorussian Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra
Anatoly Lapunov, conductor
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Berlin Philharmonic
Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Nic Raine, conductor
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel, conductor
Haunted Mansion: Grim Grinning Ghosts (Dance Party)
Haunted Mansion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Studio Orchestra
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Adrian Leaper, conductor
