Schedule & Playlists
Playlist for Wednesday, December 24, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 am
12:00 am
English Trad: Carol, "O Little Town of Bethlehem"
Piranesi String Quartet
Christmas Quartet
12:05 am
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Motet, "Hodie Christus natus est"
Regensburger Domspatzen/ Ratzinger
12:08 am
Heinrich Schütz: "Kleine geistliche Konzerte"
"Hodie Christus natus est"
Bremen Weser-Renaissance/Manfred Cordes
Psalmen Davids
12:12 am
Howard Hanson: "Dies Natalis" (1967)
Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger
Hanson: The Mystic Trumpeter
12:26 am
James Pierpont: "Jingle Bells"
Music Box
Christmas Bells
12:28 am
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 90 in C with alternate finale
Berlin Phil/Sir Simon Rattle
Haydn: Symphonies 88-92 Etc * Berliner Philharmoniker * Rattle
12:54 am
Trad German: Carol, "O du fröhliche"
Music Box
Christmas Bells
1:00 am
Charles Gounod: "Ave Maria"
Lyne Fortin, s; Quebec Sym Orch/Pascal Verrot
Christmas- Weihnachten- Noel: Les chants inoubliables (Unforgettable Carols)
1:05 am
Michel Corrette: "Symphonie de Noel #3"
La Fantasia/Rien Voskuilen
Corrette: Les Six Symphonies De Noel
1:19 am
Louis-Claude Daquin: "Noël étranger"
Marie-Claire Alain, o (Cathédrale Saint-Théodorit d'Uzés)
Noëls pour Orgue
1:22 am
Claude Balbastre: Noël, Tous les bourgeois de Châtre
Marie-Claire Alain, o (Cathédrale Saint-Théodorit d'Uzés)
Noëls pour Orgue
1:25 am
French Trad: Carol, "Un flambeau, (Bring a torch) Jeannette, Isabelle"
Rachel Van Voorhees, h
A Christmas Classic
1:27 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Christmas Cantata, "Lauter Wonne, lauter Freude"
Monika Frimmer, s; Ensemble
Telemann: Harmonischer Gottesdienst
1:38 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Three-Violin Concerto in C, BWV 1064
Freiburg Baroque Orch/Thomas Hengelbrock
Bach-Vivaldi
1:54 am
Philip Lane: "Old Christmas Music"
"Bring a Torch"
Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland
Another Night before Christmas and Scrooge
2:00 am
Frederick Delius: "Sleigh Ride"
Royal Phil/Sir Thomas Beecham
The Beecham Legacy Vol. 3: Florida Suite, Dance Rhapsody No. 2, Over the Hills and Far Away
2:05 am
Leroy Anderson: "Sleigh Ride"
Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin
Horns for the Holidays
2:08 am
Serge Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kijé " Suite, Op. 60
IV. "Troika"
Sonos Handbell Ensemble/James Meredith
Christmas With Sonos Handbell Ensemble
2:11 am
Peter Tchaikovsky: "The Seasons (The Months)," Op. 37
"Troika (December)"
RTE Concert Orch/Gavin Sutherland
Another Night before Christmas and Scrooge
2:14 am
Fanny Mendelssohn: Das Jahr (1841)
December
Jennifer Eley, p
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto In E Minor/ Schumann: Konzertsatz
2:18 am
Michael Praetorius: Chorale, "Vom Himmel hoch"
Vocalists; New York Cornet And Sackbut Ensemble/Ben Peck
2:25 am
Franz Gruber: "Silent Night"
Music Bax
A Music Box Christmas
2:26 am
Leroy Anderson: "A Christmas Festival"
BBC Concert Orch/Leonard Slatkin
Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride & Other Holiday Favorites
2:35 am
Ralph Hunter: Carol medley, "Sing Noel"
Gloriae Dei Cantores/Elizabeth Patterson
Sing Noel
2:53 am
French Trad: Carol, Ding, Dong, Merrily on High
Elizabethan Singers/Louis Halsey
Sir Cristemas
3:00 am
Felix Mendelssohn: Carol, "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing"
Taverner Consort, Cho & Players/Andrew Parrott
3:05 am
English Trad: Carol, "O Come All Ye Faithful"
Westminster Cathedral Cho, Trumpeters/David Hill; James O'Donnell, o
3:10 am
Carlos Salzedo: "Variations on Adeste Fideles"
Judy Loman, h
Adeste Fideles
3:15 am
Marcel Dupré: "Variations on a Noël, Op 20"
Michael Farris, o
Organ Recital: Farris, Michael - WIDOR, C.-M. / FRANCK, C. / ALAIN, J. / VIERNE, L. / DURUFLE, M. / DUPRE, M. (French Fireworks - The Symphonic Organ)
3:26 am
French Trad: Carol, "Il est né le divin enfant"
King's Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Hickox
3:28 am
German Trad: Carol, "Kling Glöckchen, klingeling"
Czech State Phil/Peter Breiner
Christmas Goes Baroque 1
3:32 am
American Trad: Carol, "The First Noel"
CSSR State Phil/Peter Breiner
Christmas Goes Baroque 1
3:36 am
Georg Philipp Telemann: Cantata, "Uns ist ein Kind geboren"
Zádori, s; Nemeth, ms; Kallay, t; Mertens, br; Capella Savaria/Németh
Pál Németh,
Telemann: Cantates de Noel
3:54 am
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale prelude, "In Dulci Jubilo (In sweet rejoicing)" BWV 729
Brett Zumsteg, p
4:00 am
English Trad: Carol, In the Bleak Midwinter
A. Delmoni, v, N. Bodnar, v, N. Lipkina, vi, N. Rosen, vc
N Lipkina,
Rejoice! A String Quartet Christmas Vol. 2
4:02 am
English Trad: Carol, Once in Royal David's City
A. Delmoni, v, N. Bodnar, v, N. Lipkina, vi, N. Rosen, vc
N Lipkina,
Rejoice! A String Quartet Christmas Vol. 2
4:05 am
German Trad: Carol, "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (Lo, how a rose)"
Marilyn Horne, ms; Mormon Tabernacle Cho/Jerold D Ottley
O Holy Night- Christmas With Marilyn Horne And The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
4:10 am
Pietro Yon: Carol, "Gesu Bambino"
Marilyn Horne, ms; Mormon Tabernacle Cho/Jerold D Ottley
O Holy Night- Christmas With Marilyn Horne And The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
4:14 am
German Trad: Carol, O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)
Marilyn Horne, ms, Mormon Tabernacle Cho/Jerold D Ottley
O Holy Night- Christmas With Marilyn Horne And The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
4:17 am
French Trad: Carol, "Il est né le divin enfant"
A. Delmoni, v; N. Bodnar, v; N. Lipkina, vi; N. Rosen, vc
N Lipkina,
4:19 am
Giuseppe Torelli: Concerto grosso in g, Op 8/6, "Christmas Concerto"
I Solisti Italiani
4:25 am
Antonio Vivaldi: "Magnificat," R 610b
Soloists; Taverner Cho, Taverner Players/Andrew Parrott
Vivaldi: Gloria, Magnificat
4:39 am
Herbert Howells: "Magnificat" (1947)
Valparaiso Univ Concert Cho/Christopher Cock
4:46 am
Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria
Eaken Piano Trio
CHRISTMAS and HANUKAH: I'll Be Home for the Holidays
4:54 am
American Trad: Carol, "Ding Dong, Merrily on High"
A. Delmoni, v; N. Bodnar, v; N. Lipkina, vi; N. Rosen, vc
N Lipkina,
5:00 am
English Trad: Carol, Away in a manger
The Klokken Ringers/Betty Garee, Robert F. Jutton, o
N/A
5:05 am
Joseph Willcox Jenkins: "Cantate Hodie (Sing Forth This Day)", Op 197
Pittsburgh Bach Cho, Pittsburgh Sym Brass/Brady Allred
5:16 am
English Trad: Carol, O Come All Ye Faithful
St Paul's Cathedral Cho
N/A
5:21 am
English Trad: Carol, In the Bleak Midwinter
St Paul's Cathedral Cho
N/A
5:26 am
English Trad: Carol, O Little Town of Bethlehem
York Minster Cho/Philip Moore
N/A
5:29 am
Lennox Berkeley: Carol, "Look Up, Sweet Babe"
Canterbury Cathedral Cho/David Flood
5:34 am
Michael Praetorius: Carol, "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen"
Westminster Cathedral Cho/David Hill
Christmas Music
5:36 am
Carl Davis: Ballet, "A Christmas Carol"
Suite
Northern Ballet Theatre Orch/John Pryce-Jones
20TH CENTURY ENGLISH BALLETS
5:53 am
French Trad: Carol, Angels We Have Heard on High
Brett Zumsteg, p
N/A
6:00 - 9:00 am
6:00 am
Morning Program
6:00 am
Hosted by Jan Weller.
6:05 am
Pietro Locatelli: Concerto grosso in F minor, Op. 1, No. 8, "Christmas Concerto"
I Solisti Italiani
Christmas Concertos
6:21 am
Andrzej Panufnik: Old Polish Suite
Polish Chamber Orch/Mariusz Smolij
Panufnik: Homage to Polish Music
6:33 am
Jeffrey Reid Baker: "Christmasscenen" (after Robert Schumann)
Jeffrey Reid Baker, p
A Composer's Christmas
6:43 am
Ariel Ramírez: "Navidad Nuestra"
Soloists; Counterpoint/Robert DeCormier
Misa Criolla
7:04 am
Malcolm Arnold: Brass Quintet
Onyx Brass
Transatlantic
7:18 am
Karl Jenkins: "Stella Natalis"
II. "Lullay"
K Royal, s; A Balsom, tr; Tenebrae; Marylebone Camerata/Jenkins
Jenkins: Stella Natalis
7:22 am
Karl Jenkins: "Stella Natalis"
III. "Cantuis Triquetrus"
Alison Balsom, tr; Tenebrae; Marylebone Camerata/Karl Jenkins
Jenkins: Stella Natalis
7:26 am
Karl Jenkins: "Stella Natalis"
IV. "Only Heavenly Music"
K Royal, s; A Balsom, tr; Tenebrae; Marylebone Camerata/Jenkins
Jenkins: Stella Natalis
7:33 am
Gian Carlo Menotti: "Amahl and the Night Visitors"
Orchestral Suite
Atlanta Sym Orch/Robert Shaw
Nativity: A Christmas Concert with Robert Shaw
7:41 am
Arnold Bax: "Christmas Eve"
London Phil Orch/Bryden Thomson
Bax: Symphony No. 1
8:04 am
Traditional: "Christmas Eve at the Crossroads"
Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell
Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain
8:08 am
Chris Foss: "Twas the Night Before Christmas"
Cantus
Into the Light
8:20 am
Benjamin Britten: "Gloriana," Op. 53
Courtly Dances
Julian Bream Consort
Julian Bream Edition Vol 6: The Julian Bream Consort
8:32 am
Gabriel Fauré: "Cantique de Jean Racine," Op. 11
Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter
Fauré: Requiem (1893 Version) and Other Choral Music
8:40 am
Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, "Organ"
II. "Allegro moderato - Maestoso"
Olivier Latry, o; Philadelphia Orch/Christoph Eschenbach
Barber, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns
8:57 am
Percy Grainger: Carol, "There was a pig went out to dig"
City of Birmingham Sym Cho/Simon Halsey
Elgar, Holst, Delius, Grainger: Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands, Motets, Partsongs
9:00 - 11:00 am
9:00 am
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
A beloved Christmas Eve tradition, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols sets a tone for Christmas Eve both completive and celebratory. This inspiring service of Biblical readings, carols, and seasonal music is broadcast live around the world from the 500-year-old Chapel of King’s College, in Cambridge, England.
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
11:00 am
Frederick Delius: "Sleigh Ride"
Northern Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
Frederick Delius: Miniatures
11:07 am
Leonard Bernstein: "Candide"
Overture
Bournemouth Sym Orch/Andrew Litton
Bernstein: Overture to Candide, Symphony No 2 "The Age of Anxiety", Fancy Free
11:11 am
Leonard Bernstein: "Candide"
XXXI. Finale, "Make Our Garden Grow"
William Terwilliger, v; Andrew Cooperstock, p
Bernstein: Violin Sonata, Piano Trio, New Transcriptions
11:17 am
Traditional: "How Far Is It to Bethlehem?"
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge/Stephen Layton
Yulefest!
11:19 am
Traditional English: Carol, "O Little Town of Bethlehem"
Musica Sacra/Richard Westenburg
Christmas Carols
11:23 am
Traditional Nigerian: Nativity Song, "Betelehemu"
Turtle Creek Cho, Psychedelic Drum/Timothy Seelig
Postcards
11:29 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Divertimento in D, K. 136
Concerto Köln
Mozart * Concerto Köln
11:47 am
Michael Praetorius: "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen"
Giovanni De Chiaro, g
The Sounds of Christmas on Guitar
11:52 am
Various: Medley, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; Angels We Have Heard on High"
Empire Brass; Nancy Allen, h; Mark Kroll, hc; Arthur Press, per
Joy to the World - Music of Christmas
12:00 pm
Elizabeth Poston: "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree"
Chicago Choral Artists/Bart Bradfield
Tidings of Comfort and Joy
12:03 pm
Traditional English: "Coventry Carol"
Chicago Choral Artists/Bart Bradfield
Tidings of Comfort and Joy
12:06 pm
Traditional English: "The Wassail Song"
Chicago Choral Artists/Bart Bradfield
Tidings of Comfort and Joy
12:10 pm
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Rachel Barton Pine, v; Göttingen Sym/Christoph-Mathias Mueller
Mendelssohn and Schumann: Violin Concertos
12:37 pm
Leroy Anderson: "A Christmas Festival"
Tanglewood Festival Cho, Boston Pops Orch/John Williams
Joy To The World
12:48 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, "Great"
BBC Phil/Martyn Brabbins
King of Kings: Bach Orchestral Transcriptions
1:00 pm
Giovanni Gabrieli: Sonata XVIII
La Cetra/Andrea Marcon
Monteverdi: Christmas Vespers
1:08 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13, "Winter Dreams"
III. Scherzo: "Allegro scherzando giocoso"
New Philharmonia Orch/Riccardo Muti
Tchaikovsky: Complete Symphonies
1:17 pm
Dag Wirén: Serenade for Strings, Op. 11
St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Grieg, Sibelius, Nielsen, Wirén
1:33 pm
Kim Porter: "Christmas Eve"
The Sixteen/Harry Christophers
Carol of the Bells
1:36 pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on "Greensleeves"
Eaken Piano Trio
Home for the Holidays
1:41 pm
Elizabeth DiSavino: Suite of French Carols
Solid Brass
Christmas With Solid Brass
1:47 pm
Edward MacDowell: "Fireside Tales," Op. 61
James Barbagallo, p
MacDowell: Piano Music Vol. 1
2:00 - 7:00 pm
2:00 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 63, "Christen, ätzet diesen Tag (Christians, engrave this day)"
Soloists; Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
Dietrich Henschel, bass,
Johann Sebastian Bach Cantatas Vol. 18
2:27 pm
Raymond Warren: "Wexford Bells: Suite on Old Irish Tunes"
"Christmas Jig"; "Wexford Bells"
Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland
British Light Music Discoveries 2
2:33 pm
Franz Schubert: Impromptu in C minor, D 899, No. 1
András Schiff, fp
Schubert: Sonatas & Impromptus
2:44 pm
Arvo Pärt: "Fratres"
Margaret Batjer, v; Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra/Jeffrey Kahane
Jalbert, Bach, Pärt & Vasks: Music for Violin & Orchestra
2:55 pm
Roger Harvey: Medley, "Fantasy de Noël"
Burning River Brass
Twas the Night Before Christmas
3:00 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 2 in C, Op. 53, "Caractéristique"
Stuttgart Radio Sym Orch/Neville Marriner
Tchaikovsky: Suites Nos. 1 & 2
3:35 pm
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube," Op. 314
Vienna Sym Orch/Robert Stolz
The Victrola Sampler, Vol. 1
3:45 pm
Carlos Guastavino: "Jeromita Linares"
Pablo Cohen, g; Camerata Bariloche
Impresiones
3:57 pm
Various: Medley, "Carol of the Bells; We Three Kings"
Eaken Piano Trio
Holidays with WFMT
4:00 pm
Gustav Holst: "Ave Maria," Op. 9b
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge/Richard Marlow
The Songs of Angels
4:06 pm
Elizabeth DiSavino: Suite of English Carols
Solid Brass
Christmas With Solid Brass
4:14 pm
William Henry Fry: "Santa Claus Symphony"
Royal Scottish National Orch/Tony Rowe
Santa Clause Symphony
4:43 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Exsultate, jubilate," K. 165
Albrecht Mayer, ob; German Chamber Phil Bremen
Albrecht Mayer: Mozart
4:58 pm
Traditional English: "I Saw Three Ships"
Manor House String Quartet
I Saw Three Ships and Other Carols
5:00 pm
Claude Debussy: "Images," Set 1
Håkon Austbø, p
Claude Debussy: Complete Works for Piano Solo Vol 1 * Hakon Austbo
5:15 pm
George Whitefield Chadwick: String Serenade
"Allegro grazioso"
American Music Ens Vienna/Hobart Earle
Chadwick: Serenade for Strings; Gilbert: Suite
5:22 pm
Arcangelo Corelli: "Christmas Concerto" in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8
V.-VI.
Berlin Chamber Orch/Michael Erxleben
100 Christmas Classics
5:27 pm
Marcel Samuel-Rousseau: "Variations pastorales sur un vieux Noël"
Nicanor Zabaleta, h
Nicanor Zabaleta - French Harp Music
5:36 pm
John Rosamond Johnson: "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
Boys Choir of Harlem; unknown pianist
We Shall Overcome
5:42 pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Grosse Fuge" in B-Flat, Op. 133
Takács Quartet
Beethoven: String Quartets Opp 95, 130-133 & 135
5:58 pm
John Knowles Paine: "Christmas Gift", Op. 7
Denver Oldham, p
John Knowles Paine: Selected Piano Works
6:00 pm
Peter Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11
II. "Andante cantabile"
Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Pittsburgh Sym Orch/Lorin Maazel
Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante / Yo-Yo Ma/Lorin Maazel
6:09 pm
Ferdinando Carulli: Serenade No. 1 in A, Op. 96
Julian Bream & John Williams, g's
Together Again
6:21 pm
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D, "London"
I. "Adagio - Allegro"
London Phil Orch/Eugen Jochum
Haydn: The 12 'London' Symphonies
6:31 pm
Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F
Old City String Quartet
Live from WFMT: The Old City String Quartet (October 18, 2010)
6:58 pm
Traditional: Carol, "It came upon the midnight clear"
Pittsburgh Sym Brass
The Spirit of Christmas
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Holiday Celebration
The sound of sleigh bells means that it's winter holiday time, and music is full of representations of celebratory music. All around the world, winter holidays of a wide variety are celebrated, and their music is wonderful to listen to regardless of which one you celebrate.
8:00 - 10:00 pm
8:00 pm
Evening Music
8:00 pm
Jean Sibelius: "Swanwhite" incidental music, Op. 54
Gothenburg Sym/Neeme Järvi
Sibelius: Swanwhite Suite, Op. 54 / Belshazzar's Feast Suite, Op. 51 / Neeme Järvi
8:25 pm
Josquin des Prez: Motet, "O Virgo Virginum"
Chanticleer
Sing We Christmas
8:35 pm
Traditional: "The Christmas Suite"
Giovanni De Chiaro, g
The Sounds of Christmas on Guitar
8:48 pm
Michael Praetorius: Christmas motet, "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern"
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge/Richard Marlow
Michael Praetorius: In Dulci Jubilo
9:00 pm
Philip Lane: "Old Christmas Music"
Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland
Another Night Before Christmas and Scrooge
9:13 pm
Giuseppe Sammartini: Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 5, No. 6, "Christmas"
Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie
Simphonies des Noëls
9:27 pm
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Snow Maiden"
Suite
Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz
Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Suites
9:41 pm
Jukka Linkola: Music for the film "The Snow Queen"
Kai and Gerda on the Beach through Enchanted Flower Garden
Orch/Jukka Linkola
Jukka Linkola: Music from the film The Snow Queen
10:00 pm - 12:00 am
10:00 pm
Baroque&Before with Candice Agree
Bach Christmas Oratorio
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, and soloists, under the direction of Jordi Savall perform Bach's monumental oratorio for the Christmas season. Recorded live in concert in 2019 in Barcelona's Palau de la Música.
