Eastern Orthodox Christmas Music with Andrew Patner
January 3, 2022, 10:00 pm
A rebroadcast from WFMT’s late critic-at-large, in which he explores this lesser-known holiday repertory.
Folkstage: The Final New Year’s Eve Celebration
January 1, 2022, 9:00 pm
Highlights from the 2019 “Midnight Special” New Year’s Eve celebration, featuring John McCutcheon, Crys Matthews & Heather Mae, Shawna Caspi and Greg Greenway recorded in the Fay & Daniel Levin Studio.
Massenet’s ‘Cinderella’ [Abridged English-language version]
January 1, 2022
Continuing a treasured holiday tradition, the Met presents a new installment in its series of abridged opera adaptations for family audiences.
New Year’s Day from Vienna
January 1, 2022, 10:00 am
A beloved tradition. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Vienna Philharmonic.
New Year’s Eve from the Berlin Philharmonic
December 31, 2021, 10:00 pm
Music director Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic and violinist Janine Jansen in a celebratory concert.
Winter Medley
December 30, 2021
In a wide-ranging program, Ken-David Masur conducts music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Henry Purcell, plus Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and Daniel Kidane.
A Roaring Christmas with the BBC Singers
December 29, 2021, 8:00 pm
A festive celebration of the 1920s & 30s from the Barbican in London.
¡Vamos a Belén! — Christmas with The Rose Ensemble
December 28, 2021, 8:00 pm
The acclaimed, Minnesota-based Rose Ensemble returns with festive and evocative early music from Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, and beyond.
Music of the Baroque: Handel’s Messiah
December 26, 2021, 3:00 pm
Conducted by principal guest conductor Nicholas Kraemer, this performance features soloists Sherezade Panthaki, soprano; Allyson McHardy, mezzo-soprano; Brian Giebler, tenor; Matthew Brook, bass-baritone.
Folkstage: An Irish Christmas Concert
December 25, 2021, 8:00 pm
Bohola (Jimmy Keane & Pat Boaders) from the Levin Studio 12/24/2005.
Latin American Christmas Carols
December 25, 2021
A selection of villancicos, Christmas carols from Spain and Latin America, is featured on this Christmas-themed program from Fiesta. Join us for music that spans several centuries and a great diversity of influences and traditions.
Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square
December 25, 2021, 6:00 pm
The 360-member chorus invokes nostalgia for the 1960s & 1970s.
Margaret Bonds’s The Ballad of the Brown King
December 25, 2021
A nativity story that centers the darkest-skinned of the Three Kings.
Christmas at DePaul University
December 25, 2021, 3:00 pm
Featuring students and alumni from DePaul’s School of Music and Theatre School with the DePaul Community Chorus.
An Introductions Christmas
December 25, 2021
It’s a gift from the youth of Chicago: throughout 2021, featured Introductions soloists recorded extra pieces of music in their sessions. We’ve saved these short vignettes until the last Saturday of the year, so enjoy this music for the season on a special Christmas Day episode of Introductions. Video: Isabel Chen playing Silent Night, with still images of her own ...
Music for the Winter Holidays
December 25, 2021, 9:00 am
"The Film Score: Music for the Winter Holidays," hosted by Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips, features music from holiday favorites and other wintry classics.
Christmas Memories (12/22/1961)
December 24, 2021
Studs Terkel first presented his Christmas Memories program on WFMT in 1961. Since then, this holiday compendium of voices and memories of childhood Christmases has become a perennial favorite.
Winter Holiday Jukebox
December 24, 2021
Sacred and secular music to honor the winter solstice and year-end holidays.
Music of the Baroque’s Holiday Choral and Brass Concert
December 24, 2021, 3:00 pm
A Chicago tradition, conducted by William Jon Gray.
Patrick Dupré Quigley and singers from Music of the Baroque
December 24, 2021
In this 2019 Impromptu, guest conductor Patrick Dupré Quigley, founder and artistic director of the vocal ensemble Seraphic Fire, led a Music of the Baroque chorus in music for the holiday season.
