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.’
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Morton Gould, conductor
Luther College Choir
Craig Arnold, conductor
Clare College Singers
John Rutter, conductor
Arturo Delmoni, violin
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis, conductor
Vasari Singers
Jeremy Backhouse, conductor
Martin Ford, organ
New York Philharmonic
Kurt Masur, conductor
Polyphony
Stephen Layton, conductor
Copley Singers
Brian Jones, conductor
Christian Lane, organ
Alyssa Reit, harp
Suite of Carols for String Orchestra
ANDERSON, L.: Sleigh Ride and Other Holiday Favourites
BBC Concert Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
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
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The Summer Singers
Vicki Peters, conductor
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 Magdalen College, Oxford
Daniel Hyde, conductor
William Fox, organ
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
