Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Wednesday, December 17, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
English Trad: Carol, "O Come All Ye Faithful"
Westminster Cathedral Cho, Trumpeters/David Hill; James O'Donnell, o
12:05 am
English Trad: Carol, "O Come All Ye Faithful"
Galliard Brass
A Christmas Celebration: A Collection Of Classical Brass. String And Choral Favorites
12:08 am
English Trad: "Adeste Fideles"
Luciano Pavarotti, t; Wandsworth School Boys Choir, National Phil/Adler
Luciano Pavarotti: O Holy Night
12:12 am
Samuel Webbe: Variations in A on "Adeste Fideles"
Salomon String Quartet
12:19 am
English Trad: Carol, "I saw three ships"
Elizabethan Singers/Louis Halsey
Sir Cristemas
12:21 am
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in Eb, Op. 73, "Emperor"
Melvyn Tan, forte-p; London Classical Players/Roger Norrington
Beethoven Piano Concertos
12:55 am
French Trad: Carol, "Ding, Dong, Merrily on High"
True Concord; Eric Holton
Christmas With the True Concord
1:00 am
Bela Bartók: "Romanian Folk Dances"
Adelphi Saxophone Quartet
1:05 am
Béla Bartók: "Romanian Christmas Carols"
Deszö Ranki, p
Bela Bartok
1:15 am
George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A, Op. 11, No.1
Orch/Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski Stereo Collection- Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B Minor/ Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody/ Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody
1:27 am
George Frideric Handel: "Messiah"
Chorus, "Glory to God"
St Martin's Academy Cho, Orch/Neville Marriner
Messiah Highlights
1:28 am
Friedrich Ernst Fesca: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 10
North German Radio Phil/Frank Beerman
Fesca
1:54 am
Claude PASSEREAU: Noel, Pres Bethleem dans une estable
Boston Camerata/Joel Cohen
Boston Camerata Christmas: Worlds of Early Music
2:00 am
Franz Schubert: "Die Winterreise," D 911
#12, "Im Dorfe"
Leslie Howard, p
The Complete Liszt Piano Music
2:05 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Christmas Oratorio," BWV 248
Part 5
Soloists, Gächinger Kantorei & Stuttgart Bach Collegium/Helmuth Rilling
Edition Bachakademie Vol. 76
2:28 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Das Orgelbüchlein," BWV 599/644
"In dulci jubilo" BWV 608
Marie-Claire Alain, o
Christmas Organ Music
2:29 am
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in b minor, D. 759, "Unfinished"
Dresden Staatskapelle/Giuseppe Sinopoli
Schubert: Symphonies 8 'Unfinished' and 9 'Great'
2:54 am
French ANON 15th c: Et d'ou venez-vous, Madame Lucette?
Boston Camerata/Joel Cohen
Boston Camerata Christmas: Worlds of Early Music
3:00 am
Welsh Trad: Carol, "Deck the Hall"
Mormon Tabernacle Cho/Jerold D Ottley
3:02 am
German Trad: "Personent hodie"
Mormon Tabernacle Cho/Jerold D Ottley
3:05 am
Victor Christian Hely-Hutchinson: "Carol Symphony"
City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland
A Carol Symphony
3:30 am
Welsh Trad: Carol, "Deck the Hall"
Oregon Repertory Singers/Gilbert Seeley
The Glory of Christmas * Oregon Repertory Singers
3:32 am
William Boyce: Symphony #8 in d
I Solisti di Zagreb/Antonio Janigro
William Boyce: Eight Symphonies
3:41 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata in c-sharp minor, H XVI:16
Bart van Oort, forte-p
Haydn Edition
3:54 am
English Trad: Carol, "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
Anthony Newman, o
4:00 am
Gottfried Wolters: Carol, "Maria durch ein Dornwald ging"
Swiss Vocal Consort/Marco Amherd
Dormi Bel Bambin
4:02 am
Burkhard Kinzler: Carol, "Still, still, still"
Swiss Vocal Consort/Marco Amherd
Dormi Bel Bambin
4:05 am
Alexei Verstovsky: "Jingle Bell"
Osipov Balalaika Orch/Viktor Dubrovsky
The World Of The Balalaika
4:08 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in a minor, Op. 33
Laszlo Varga, vc; Radio Luxembourg Orch/Louis de Froment
Saint-Saens: Works for Violin, Cello
4:27 am
French Trad: Carol, "D'où viens-tu, belle bergère?"
Maria Stader, s; Ensemble
The Christmas Album
4:29 am
Gregory Vasilevich Sviridov: "The Snowstorm"
Yurlov State Cho; Ostankino Sym Orch/Vladimir Fedoseyev
Sviridov
4:55 am
Marcel Dupré: 79 Chorales, Op. 28
"In dulci jubilo"
Jeremy Filsell, o
Marcel Dupré: Complete Organ Works, Vol 12
5:00 am
Edward Elgar: "The Snow"
American Boy Cho/James Litton
Trumpets Sound • Voices Ring (A Joyous Christmas)
5:05 am
Edward Elgar: String Quartet in e, Op 83
Chilingirian String Quartet
5:34 am
English Trad: We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Huddersfield Cho Society, Black Dyke Mills Band/Roy Newsome
Black Dyke: Huddersfield Choral Society: Christmas Fantasy
5:36 am
Bohuslav Martinu: Merry Christmas 1941
St Paul Chamber Orch/Christopher Hogwood
Martinů
5:40 am
Bedrich Smetana: "Má vlast (My Fatherland)"
"Vysehrad (The High Castle)"
Chicago Sym Orch/Rafael Kubelik
Má Vlast ("My Country"), Symphonic Cycle
5:54 am
Jaroslav Jezek: "Bagatelles"
#8, "Polka"
Tomas Visek, p
The Piano of Jaroslav Jezek
6:00 - 10:00 am
6:00 am
Morning Program
6:00 am
Hosted by Jan Weller.
6:04 am
Dave Brubeck: "La Fiesta de la Posada"
Lullaby, "Sleep Holy Infant"
La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau, v
Noël
6:09 am
Robert Russell Bennett: Christmas Medley No. 3
Atlanta Sym Cho & Orch/Robert Shaw
The Many Moods of Christmas
6:22 am
Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat, Op. 47
Seong-Jin Cho, p
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Ballades
6:32 am
Traditional Irish: "A Christmas Jig"
Baltimore Consort
Bright Day Star
6:36 am
Frank Bridge: "Sir Roger de Coverley" (Christmas Dance) (1922)
English Northern Phil/David Lloyd-Jones
English String Miniatures, Vol. 2
6:42 am
Guillaume Dumanoir: Orchestra Suite in F/C
Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall
Dumanoir: Suites d'orchestre
6:55 am
John Ireland: "The Holy Boy"
La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau
Noël
7:03 am
Giuseppe Tartini: "Sonata Pastorale" in A
Trio Settecento
An Italian Sojourn
7:14 am
Henry Charles Litolff: "Concerto symphonique" No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 45
I. Maestoso
Peter Donohoe, p; BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Andrew Litton
7:26 am
David Overton: Fantasy on "I Saw Three Ships"
Royal Phil Orch/James Galway, f
The Most Fabulous Classical Christmas Album Ever!
7:32 am
Leroy Anderson: "A Christmas Festival"
Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
A Christmas Festival with Arthur Fiedler
7:41 am
Evaristo Dall'Abaco: Concerto in C "a più istrumenti," Op. 5, No. 5
Concerto Köln
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco: Concerti / Concerto Köln
7:54 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Christmas Oratorio," BWV 248
Sinfonia ("Pastoral Symphony")
English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
Discover Bach
8:04 am
Emile Waldteufel: "Roses de Noël" Waltzes, Op. 230
Gulbenkian Orch/Michel Swierczewski
Waldteufel: The Skaters' Waltz
8:15 am
Paul Schoenfield: "Four Souvenirs"
Caroline Goulding, v; Christopher O'Riley, p
Caroline Goulding
8:27 am
Irving Berlin: "White Christmas"
Northern Lights Orch/Petri Juutilainen
What if Mozart Wrote White Christmas
8:33 am
John Rutter: "Mary's Lullaby"
Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter
Christmas Day In The Morning
8:36 am
John Rutter: "Christmas Lullaby"
Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter
Christmas Day In The Morning
8:42 am
Massimo Paris: "X'Mas Suite"
IV. Aria, "Holy Child Lullaby"
Los Romeros; Concerto Málaga/Massimo Paris
Christmas with Los Romeros
8:47 am
Massimo Paris: "X'Mas Suite"
V. Finale, "X'mas Saltarello"
Los Romeros; Concerto Málaga/Massimo Paris
Christmas with Los Romeros
8:52 am
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, "Italian"
IV. Finale, "Saltarello: Presto"
La Scala Phil/Riccardo Chailly
Musa Italiana
9:04 am
Harry Rowe Shelley: "Santa Claus Overture"
Sym Orch of America/Matthew Phillips
Those Fabulous Americans
9:13 am
Various: Medley, "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town; Here Comes Santa Claus"
Ayako Shinozaki & Kazuko Shinozaki, h's
Silent Night - Beautiful Melodies of Christmas
9:19 am
František Janoska: "The Four Seasons in Janoska Style" (after Vivaldi)
Winter
Janoska Ensemble
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons in Janoska Style
9:32 am
John Mindeman: "Joy" (after Handel's "Joy to the World" and "Hallelujah" Chorus)
Millar Brass Ensemble/Stephen Squires
A Jubilant Christmas
9:36 am
Robert Applebaum: "Haneirot Halulu"
Chicago a cappella
Miracle of Miracles
9:42 am
Arthur Honegger: Piano Concertino
Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Támas Vásáry, p
Honegger: Symphony No. 4, Pastorale d'été, Prélude Arioso & Fughette, Concertino
9:55 am
Robert Applebaum: "Funky Dreidl"
Chicago a cappella
Miracle of Miracles
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
10:00 am
Claude Debussy: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"
Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Debussy: Images, Prelude, La Mer
10:11 am
Traditional: "O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)"
Norwegian Soloists Choir/Grete Pedersen; instrumental ensemble
Andreas Utnem, harmonium,
Veni: Songs of Christmas II
10:15 am
John Jacob Niles: "I Wonder As I Wander"
Smoking Bishop
Any Tune for a Tuppence
10:17 am
Karl Jenkins: "Stella Natalis"
IV. "Only Heavenly Music"
K Royal, s; A Balsom, tr; Tenebrae; Marylebone Camerata/Jenkins
Jenkins: Stella Natalis
10:22 am
Clara Schumann: Piano Sonata in G minor
Jennifer Eley, p
Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Piano in E Minor, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn
10:42 am
Samuel Barber: "The School for Scandal" Overture, Op. 5
Baltimore Sym Orch/David Zinman
Barber: Adagio, Symphony No. 1, The School for Scandal, Essays
10:52 am
Traditional Catalan: Carol, "Fum, fum, fum"
St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt
2024 Candlelight Carols Concert
10:53 am
Traditional Catalan: Carol, "El desembre congelat"
Sonos Handbell Ensemble/James Meredith
Christmas with Sonos Handbell Ensemble
10:56 am
Traditional Catalan: "Song of the Birds"
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, vc; City of Birmingham Sym Orch Cellos
Inspiration
11:00 am
Herbert Clarke: Valse Brillante, "Sounds from the Hudson"
Wynton Marsalis, cornet; Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger
Carnaval
11:10 am
Florence Price: String Quartet in G (unfinished)
Catalyst Quartet
Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence Price
11:27 am
Irving Berlin: "White Christmas"
Carlos Simon, p
Carlos Simon Christmas
11:31 am
Vince Guaraldi: "Skating"
Canadian Brass
Christmas Time is Here
11:32 am
Leopold Mozart: "Musical Sleigh Ride"
BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth
The Night Before Christmas and other seasonal music for orchestra
11:37 am
Antonio Vivaldi: Mandolin Concerto in C, R 425
Christopher Parkening, g; St Martin's Academy/Iona Brown
Parkening Plays Vivaldi, Warlock & Praetorius
11:51 am
Ambroise Thomas: "Mignon"
Overture
Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa
Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Gounod: Faust Ballet Music; Chabrier: España; Thomas: Mignon
12:00 pm
Johannes Eccard: "Übers Gebirg Maria geht (Mary Went over the Mountains)"
Bella Voce/Andrew Lewis
Brighter Than The Day Is Light
12:04 pm
Anonymous 17th-century Guatemalan: Villancico, "De la Sagrada María"
Bella Voce/Liza Calisesi Maidens
Expanding the Choral Canon
12:05 pm
Traditional Danish: "Lad det klinge sødt i sky (Let The Clouds Sweetly Resound)"
Bella Voce/Andrew Lewis
Brighter Than The Day Is Light
12:10 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581
Anthony McGill, cl; Pacifica Quartet
Mozart and Brahms Clarinet Quintets
12:42 pm
Gioachino Rossini: "Il Signor Bruschino"
Overture
Orpheus Chamber Orch
Rossini: Overtures
12:48 pm
Giuseppe Torelli: Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 8, No. 6, "Christmas Concerto"
Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie
Encore! Les Violons Du Roy
12:54 pm
Robert Nathaniel Dett: "In the Bottoms"
IV. Barcarolle, "Morning"
Clipper Erickson, p
My Cup Runneth Over - The Complete Piano Works of R. Nathaniel Dett
1:00 pm
Richard Rodney Bennett: "On Christmas Day to my Heart"
King's College Cho Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
On Christmas Day: New Carols from King's
1:04 pm
Roger Harvey: Medley, "Fantasy de Noël"
Burning River Brass
Twas the Night Before Christmas
1:11 pm
Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2, Op. 132, "Mysterious Mountain"
London Sym Orch/John Williams
The Five Sacred Trees, Tree Line, Symphony No. 2 Op. 132, Old and Lost Rivers
1:28 pm
Franz Schubert: Twelve German Dances "(Ländler)," D. 790
Ensemble Wien
Schubert: 12 German Dances, Rondo, Overture, Concerto
1:42 pm
John Carter: Carol, "In Time of Softest Snow"
Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy
Nativitas: American Christmas Carols
1:45 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker," Op. 71
Waltz of the Snowflakes
New York Phil/Kurt Masur
Tchaikovsky: Famous Waltzes * New York Philharmonic * Masur
1:50 pm
Richard Wagner: "Lohengrin"
Prelude to Act 3 & Bridal Chorus
Berlin Deutsche Oper Cho, Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
Wagner: Lohengrin
2:00 - 7:00 pm
2:00 pm
Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 19
James Ehnes, v; BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda
Prokofiev: Complete Works for Violin
2:23 pm
Franz Schubert: Rondo in A, D 951
Paul Badura-Skoda & Jörg Demus, p
Pièces pour piano à quatre mains
2:37 pm
Franz Liszt: "Weihnachtsbaum"
Rebecca Turner, v; BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth
The Night Before Christmas and other seasonal music for orchestra
2:49 pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Romance, Op. 39
Elena Urioste, v; Chineke! Orch/Kevin John Edusei
Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor
3:00 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 1 in F, Op. 5, No. 1
Jacqueline Du Pré, vc; Daniel Barenboim, p
Beethoven: The Five Cello Sonatas, Variations
3:22 pm
Conrad Susa: "Serenade for a Christmas Night"
David John Olsen, vib; Lynne Aspnes, h; Philip Brunelle, o
Serenade for a Christmas Night
3:32 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Lute Suite in G minor, BWV 995
Jason Vieaux, g
Bach, Vol. 1: Works for Lute
3:55 pm
Luther Henderson: "Saints' Hallelujah" (after Trad African-American and Handel)
Canadian Brass
Canadian Brass Takes Flight
4:00 pm
Carl Davis: Ballet, "A Christmas Carol"
Suite
Northern Ballet Theatre Orch/John Pryce-Jones
20th Century English Ballets
4:19 pm
Antonio Salieri: Sinfonia, "Il Giorno Onomastico"
London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert
Salieri: Symphonies & Overtures
4:39 pm
Gabriel Pierné: "Variations libres et Finale," Op. 51
Oxalys
Voyage au pays du tendre et de l'effroi
4:52 pm
Hector Berlioz: "Symphonie fantastique," Op. 14
II. "A Ball"
San Diego Sym/Yoav Talmi
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14
5:00 pm
Frederick Delius: Violin Sonata No. 3
Tasmin Little, v; Piers Lane, p
Delius: The Four Violin Sonatas
5:17 pm
Gustav Holst: Carol, "This have I done for my true love," Op. 34, No. 1
Christ Church Cathedral Cho/Stephen Darlington
Make We Joy (Christmas Music By Holst And Walton)
5:23 pm
Gustav Holst: "In the Bleak Midwinter"
Chanticleer
Christmas with the Stars
5:29 pm
Jean Sibelius: String Quartet in D minor, Op. 56, "Voces intimae"
Aizuri Quartet
Earthdrawn Skies
6:00 pm
Johann Neruda: Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat
German Chamber Phil Bremen/Alison Balsom, tr
Alison Balsom - Trumpet Concertos
6:16 pm
Edvard Grieg: "Holberg" Suite, Op. 40
Swiss Chamber Orch
Tchaikovsky & Suk: Serenades for Strings; Grieg: Holberg Suite and Two Elegiac Melodies
6:37 pm
Leroy Anderson: "A Christmas Festival"
Tanglewood Festival Cho, Boston Pops Orch/John Williams
Joy To The World
6:47 pm
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, "Italian"
I. "Allegro vivace"
Cleveland Orch/George Szell
Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony No. 4, A Midsummer Night's Dream
6:58 pm
Ella Jenkins: "I Got a Harmonica for Hanukkah"
Ella Jenkins
Ray Nordstrand Memorial/ Old Town School Disc 1
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Peter Tchaikovsky, part II (1840-1893)
This week, we’ll continue our exploration of Peter Tchaikovsky, focusing on the latter part of his life, including his symphonies, ballets, and life at the Moscow Conservatory. Bill will begin with Tchaikovsky’s "Variations on a Rococo Theme," Op. 33, for cello and orchestra, composed in 1876. We will conclude the week with his Symphony No. 6 in B minor, titled "Pathétique," which premiered in 1893 just days before his death. Throughout the week, Bill will share the story of Tchaikovsky’s failed marriage and his unique relationship with his patroness, Nadezhda von Meck.
8:00 - 10:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evening Music
8:00 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D, "Clock"
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Ádám Fischer
Haydn: Symphonies 93-104
8:31 pm
Christoph Graupner: Suite in F for flute, viola d'amore, chalumeau, strings and cembalo
Soloists, Finnish Baroque Orch/Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch, vi d'amore
Graupner: Orchestral Suites
9:00 pm
Franz Ignaz Beck: Symphony in E-Flat, Op. 2, No. 4
Thirteen Strings Chamber Orch/Kevin Mallon
Beck: 6 Symphonies, Op. 2
9:11 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker," Op. 71
Act II
Bergen Phil Orch/Neeme Järvi
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
Baroque&Before with Candice Agree
Italian Christmas Concertos
Concerto Copenhagen performs Christmas concertos by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian composers, recorded live in Malmö, Sweden.
