A Philadelphia Orchestra performance.

As we prepare for the eve of Christmas, we’ll begin the festivities with 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.

A selection of villancicos or Christmas carols from Spain and Latin America are featured on this Christmas themed program from Fiesta. Join us for music that spans several centuries and a great diversity of influences and traditions.

A holiday collection of religious and secular favorites sung by Kiri Te Kanawa, Robert Shaw Chorale, Kathleen Ferrier, Richard Tauber, and more.

A Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance conducted by Fritz Reiner.

Donald Runnicles conducts this family-friendly, English-language 2018 performance featuring Lisette Oropesa (Gretel), Tara Erraught (Hansel), Dolora Zajick (Gertrude), and Gerhard Siegel (Witch).

It was in December 1988 that Studs Terkel presented this musical tribute to Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights. The hour begins with songs of Martha Schlamme, Theo Bikel, and some klezmer music, too. In the second half, Studs reads Grace Paley’s short story, “Good-bye and Good Luck”.

This week on Music in Chicago, we’ll hear holiday performances by the St. Charles Singers and Chicago Choral Artists, a live concert by the Avalon Quartet at the Chicago Cultural Center, and encore broadcasts of the Orion String Quartet and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in WFMT’s Impromptu series.

During this festive Impromptu from 2015, members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performed a pair of the great Brandenburg Concertos by Bach: No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050, and No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051.

The illustrious violinist samples a great variety of music for the Jewish Festival of Lights.

The Westminster Abbey Choir performs this perennial holiday favorite.

A rebroadcast of a performance from December 10, 2012, the Wicker Park Choral Singers present a diverse programs featuring music from around the world entitled “It Takes A Village.”  

Critically acclaimed early music ensemble Apollo’s Fire shares a festive, Irish-Appalachian celebration.

Mary, Mother of Jesus, features prominently in this program of music celebrating her and her response to the news that she will give birth to Christ. Join Peter DuBois for this important step on the Advent journey.

Join Jonathan Miller, artistic director of Chicago a cappella and a longtime champion of Jewish choral music, for an inspiring and informative show featuring choral music set to Chanukah texts.

Sacred music is heard in a program consisting of the Magnificat by Antonio Vivaldi. Riccardo Muti conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus with soloists Teresa Berganza and Lucia Valentini Terrani.

This week on Music in Chicago, we’ll hear recordings by Camerata Chicago and Music of the Baroque, a new holiday album by the Chicago Chamber Choir, a live recital from the Chicago Cultural Center, and an encore broadcast of WFMT’s Impromptu series.

In a worldwide broadcast in honor of the UN Human Rights Day, this performance features narration in several languages of excerpts from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Baroque&Before marks Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, with a program of sacred, paraliturgical, celebratory, and secular music of the Jews of the Mediterranean: Spain, Greece, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire. Tonight’s program will be available on demand for two weeks following the broadcast. Please visit wfmt.com/listen.

The Best of Studs Terkel on WFMT presents a long-time New Year’s broadcast tradition. It’s “Born to Live,” a program of interviews, spoken word, and musical responses to the nuclear age that Studs produced in 1961 with colleague Jim Unrath. “Born to Live” won the Prix Italia, an award Studs described as “the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for radio …

An almost-live presentation of the annual Strauss concert by the Vienna Philharmonic in its venerable Musikverein. Andris Nelsons conducts.

Rich Warren plays listener requests and welcomes a live audience to Levin Studio to hear four stellar folk performers. An annual WFMT tradition.

A rebroadcast from WFMT’s late critic-at-large, in which he explores this lesser-known holiday repertory.

Gabriel Pierné’s charming Christmas choral work performed by musicians of the French Radio.

The beloved holiday tradition returns to Symphony Center once more with this performance of Handel’s Messiah conducted by Matthew Halls featuring Amanda Forsythe, Sasha Cooke, Nicholas Phan, Joshua Hopkins, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus under the direction of Duain Wolfe.