Kwanzaa Stories with LaRob K. Rafael

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.

Music of the Baroque: Holiday Choral and Brass Concert

Enjoy this festive celebration brimming with beautiful music for the season.

Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker

We take you to Paris for a live performance of this perennial favorite.

Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)

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 …

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Encore Presentation

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.

Handel Messiah & Tchaikovsky Nutcracker

Holiday music conducted by Sir Georg Solti and Fritz Reiner.

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Live

A beloved Christmas Eve tradition, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols sets a tone for Christmas Eve both contemplative and celebratory.

Advent 4/Christmas

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.

Merry Midnight Special Christmas!

Traditional songs, Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by Bohola, other musical Christmas gifts, and a bit of seasonal nonsense.

“Voices of Winter” from the Archives

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.

Classical Christmas in Latin America

Fiesta celebrates the season with a brand-new recording of Jose Mauricio de Nunes Garcia monumental mass entitled “Missa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição”.

Christmas Memories (12/22/1961)

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.

Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Handel’s Messiah

A performance of one of the season’s musical crown jewels, Handel’s Messiah.

Carols as Home with the Imani Winds

Enjoy music and conversation with the pathbreaking ensemble Imani Winds.

A Baroque Christmas with Concerto Copenhagen & Il Giardino Armonico

The Christmas season was an extremely busy time for church composers in the eighteenth century: congregations expected newly written music every year.

VocalEssence: Welcome Christmas!

One of the premiere American vocal ensembles in concert.

Vivaldi, with the Four Seasons

Sampling Vivaldi concertos, culminating in the iconic Four Seasons.

Apollo’s Fire: Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain

A beloved program of Appalachian music for the holidays.

2023 St. Olaf Christmas Festival

A cherished holiday tradition.

Christmas Around the World

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.

Advent 3, Rejoice!

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!

Snow Songs for the Winter Solstice

Nothing sparkles in the night like music! A flurry of new holiday songs plus warm notes from bygone days.

New Choral Music for the Season

Discover new music including Reena Esmail’s A Winter Breviary and Roderick Williams’s O Adonai.

Mozart’s The Magic Flute

The Met’s English-sung, family-friendly production of Mozart’s dazzling fairy tale returns.

Handel’s “Judas Maccabaeus”

Handel recast the story of Judas Maccabeus as a celebratory ode to King George II, with music of unprecedented refinement, gripping suspense, and drama.