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On each of the seven days of Kwanzaa, LaRob K. Rafael shares a reflection and a piece of music that exemplifies one of Kwanzaa’s seven principles.
Enjoy this festive celebration brimming with beautiful music for the season.
We take you to Paris for a live performance of this perennial favorite.
GF Handel, born the same year as JS Bach and Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti — 1685 — had a distinct sound that married his German roots with his new country of England. We’ll have a weeklong look at the life and music of England’s most celebrated German composer. Since the Baroque era, many of his works are played every year since …
Enjoy an encore presentation of this Christmas Eve tradition, broadcast live from the Chapel of King’s College in Cambridge, England, earlier today. Download the Festival of Nine Lessons 2023 Order of Service.
Holiday music conducted by Sir Georg Solti and Fritz Reiner.
A beloved Christmas Eve tradition, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols sets a tone for Christmas Eve both contemplative and celebratory.
As we prepare for the eve of Christmas, we’ll begin with music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, and move to music to celebrate the arrival of the Christ Child on this edition of With Heart and Voice. Tune in as Peter DuBois shares sacred choral and organ treasures of the season.
Traditional songs, Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by Bohola, other musical Christmas gifts, and a bit of seasonal nonsense.
Time cannot dim the appeal of close friends in close harmony. Herdman, Hills and Mangsen brought their quintessential holiday repertoire “Voices of Winter” to Folkstage in December 2000.
Fiesta celebrates the season with a brand-new recording of Jose Mauricio de Nunes Garcia monumental mass entitled “Missa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição”.
Tonight’s presentation of “Christmas Memories” with Studs Terkel brims with voices and memories of childhood Christmases from long ago. Studs first offered this special program on WFMT in 1961, and this is our annual rebroadcast of that perennial favorite.
A performance of one of the season’s musical crown jewels, Handel’s Messiah.
Enjoy music and conversation with the pathbreaking ensemble Imani Winds.
The Christmas season was an extremely busy time for church composers in the eighteenth century: congregations expected newly written music every year.
One of the premiere American vocal ensembles in concert.
Sampling Vivaldi concertos, culminating in the iconic Four Seasons.
A beloved program of Appalachian music for the holidays.
Candice Agree invites you to celebrate the season with a musical holiday journey, filled with carols, holiday folk melodies, and classical Christmas traditions from far and wide.
Music reflecting the sense of expectation and impending joy at the coming of the Savior. Peter DuBois will share sacred choral and organ music from across the centuries, written in anticipation of the blessed event. Join us!
Nothing sparkles in the night like music! A flurry of new holiday songs plus warm notes from bygone days.
Discover new music including Reena Esmail’s A Winter Breviary and Roderick Williams’s O Adonai.
The Met’s English-sung, family-friendly production of Mozart’s dazzling fairy tale returns.
Handel recast the story of Judas Maccabeus as a celebratory ode to King George II, with music of unprecedented refinement, gripping suspense, and drama.