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.’
Rossini Hayward, guitar
Cantus
Adagio Trio
Clare College Singers
John Rutter, conductor
Simon Vaughan, baritone
Michael Chertock, piano
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus
Neville Marriner, conductor
Academy of Ancient Music Berlin
Rene Jacobs, conductor
Berlin Philharmonic
Simon Rattle, conductor
Vienna Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Leontyne Price, soprano
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4 Girls 4 Harps
Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Daniel Hyde, conductor
Roderick Williams, baritone
Arturo Delmoni, violin
Bologna Theater Orchestra
Michele Mariotti, conductor
Juan Diego Florez, tenor
Pacific Chorale
John Alexander, conductor
Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
George Guest, conductor
Alison Krauss, vocals
Copper Street Brass Quintet
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Mack Wilberg/Ryan Murphy, conductor
Rolando Villazon, tenor
Emily Mitchell, harp
Chanticleer
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
Concordia Choir of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota
Rene Clausen, conductor
Cambridge Singers
John Rutter, conductor
Amahl and the Night Visitors: Dance Suite
Barber: Souvenirs; Menotti: Sebastian, Amahl and the Night Visitors
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Schenck, conductor
Rachel Van Voorhees, harp
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Graham Ross, conductor
Gloucestershire Wassail; Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day; Sussex Carol
Ancient Noels
Ensemble Galilei
Maggie Sansone, hammered dulcimer
Copley Singers
Brian Jones, conductor
Christian Lane, organ
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Martin Neary, conductor
Michala Petri, recorder
Bach Choir
John Rutter, conductor
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
Richard Marlow, conductor
Noel, Noel, Bells are Ringing
Alice Grainger/Wilber Chenoweth
Christmas with the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus
May Festival Chorus
Robert Porco, conductor
Huddersfield Choral Society
Keith Rhodes, conductor
Burning River Brass
Minnesota Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Simon Mulligan, piano
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Evan Jolly/Paul Bateman, conductor
National Lutheran Choir
David Cherwien, conductor
Xavier de Maistre, harp
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Christian Eggen, conductor
Lise Davidsen, soprano
United States Air Force Band
Lowell E. Graham, conductor
Vasari Singers
Jeremy Backhouse, conductor
Martin Ford, organ
Daniel Hope, violin
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