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.’
Concordia Choir of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota
Rene Clausen, conductor
Concentus Musicus Vocal Ensemble
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
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
Ancia Saxophone Quartet
Vasari Singers
Jeremy Backhouse, conductor
Martin Ford, organ
Daniel Hope, violin
Apollo5
A Christmas Carol: Suite
It's A Wonderful Life, Miracle On 34th St. & A Christmas Carol
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
David Newman, conductor
Carol of the Bells
Voces8 and Voces8 Scholars
Lviv National Philharmonic
Serhii Khorovets, conductor
Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin
Ayako Shinozaki, harp
Giv mig ej glans, ej guld, ej prakt (Give me no Splendour, Gold, or Pomp)
Christmas Wonderland
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska, conductor
Westminster Choir
Simon Preston, conductor
Dale Warland Singers
Dale Warland, conductor
Jeffrey Van, guitar
West Edge String Quartet
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Empire Brass
Chanticleer
Imani Winds
City of London Sinfonia
Stephen Layton, conductor
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
John Rutter, conductor
Canadian Brass
Eric Robertson, organ
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Paul Salamunovich, conductor
Genghis Barbie
Phoenix Chorale
Charles Bruffy, conductor
Emmanuel Lopez, cello
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Shaw, conductor
Ensemble Amarcord
London Brass
Rossini Hayward, guitar
Kantorei
Axel Theimer, conductor
Voces8
Jack Liebeck, conductor
Boston Pops Orchestra
John Williams, conductor
Martha Argerich, piano
London Music Works
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
David Willcocks, conductor
Osian Ellis, harp
David Wood, guitar
The Singers
Matthew Culloton, conductor
United States Air Force Band
Lowell E. Graham, conductor
Chilly Gonzales, piano
Joseph Alessi, trombone
Vienna Synchron Orchestra
Bernhard Voss, conductor
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Evan Jolly/Paul Bateman, conductor
Chanticleer
English Concert
Trevor Pinnock, conductor
Bach Choir
John Rutter, conductor
Vienna Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Leontyne Price, soprano
Buzz Brass
Dallas Wind Symphony
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Cantemus Chamber Choir
Huw Williams, conductor
Voce Chamber Choir
Mark Singleton, conductor
Jack Anthony Pott, tenor
Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Robert Shaw, conductor
Black Dyke Band
Nicholas Childs, conductor
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Morton Gould, conductor
Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
George Guest, conductor
Roman Nagel, piano
Handel and Haydn Society Chorus
Grant Llewellyn, conductor
Choral Arts Ensemble
Phoenix Chorale
Charles Bruffy, conductor
Emily Mitchell, harp
