6am-10am
Classical Music with Larry Coressel
10am-12pm
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
An annual and beloved Christmas tradition, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is an extraordinary and memorable live service of word and music from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, England. Audiences will share in a live, world-wide Christmas Eve broadcast of a service of Biblical readings, carols, and related seasonal music (anthems a cappella and with organ accompaniment, and congregational hymns), presented by one of the world's foremost choirs of men and boys and performed in an acoustically and architecturally renowned venue.
12pm-1pm
Christmastime in New York
The Choir of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine performs at the Medieval Sculpture Hall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a program that spans hundreds of years and describes the story of the nativity.
1pm-2pm
Discover Classical Christmas Favorites
2pm-3pm
Christmas with the King's Singers
It's an a cappella Christmas from England with the King's Singers, one of the world's most celebrated vocal ensembles. In an exclusive New York appearance recorded at The Greene Space, this male sextet -- consummate entertainers with a delightfully British wit -- perform timeless carols, Christmas classics and new arrangements in their impeccable vocal blend.
3pm-4pm
Christmas Story through Carols Old and New
An hour-long choral music show telling the Christmas story through familiar and lesser known carols.
4pm-5pm
Christmas in Brass with Eric Knorr
Join Oakwood Brass founder and Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra trumpet player Eric Knorr for a program of seasonal favorites performed by some of the world's finest brass ensembles.
5pm-6pm
A Jane Austen Christmas Musicale
Step into the Regency era this Christmas, as book lovers everywhere celebrate the 250th birthday of Jane Austen. Hosted by Colleen Wheelahan, this program features carols her fictional heroines would have enjoyed, along with music from Austen’s own collection. Austen’s descriptions of the holiday from her letters and novels will set the scene.
6pm-8pm
Performance Today
8pm-10pm
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck, conductor
George Frideric Handel: Messiah
10pm-11pm
An Early American Christmas with The Rose Ensemble
The Rose Ensemble, an early music group from Saint Paul, performs early American vocal and instrumental music, Shaker hymns, Colonial anthems, country dances and shape-note hymns on a Christmas theme. The program is hosted by Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Crann and Jordan Sramek, founder and artistic director of the Rose Ensemble.
11pm-12amAn Elizabethan Christmas with The Rose Ensemble
The time of Elizabeth I was full of tension and intrigue, dark and light, and it's evident in the music of their Christmas celebrations. The Rose Ensemble performs medieval carols, motets and anthems by beloved English Renaissance composers, joined by special guests Voces8.
6am-7am
Rochester Lessons and Carols
The program is inspired by the Festival of Lessons and Carols made famous at King's College in Cambridge, England and consists of traditional readings along with music by Andrew Carter, Anton Bruckner, Herbert Howells and Dan Locklair. Under the direction of organist-choirmaster Peter DuBois, the Third Presbyterian's Chancel Choir is recognized for its performance of English Church Music. The choir includes both professional and amateur singers, drawing on the rich talent of the Eastman School of Music, the local musical community and the congregation of Third Presbyterian.
7am-8am
All is Bright
Host Lynne Warfel offers an hour of gorgeous, contemplative choral music that tells the traditional Christmas story with songs about angels, the star and the manger scene. Featured artists include Chanticleer, The Dale Warland Singers, Bryn Terfel, Emma Kirkby, Jessye Norman and a variety of choirs.
8am-9am
Welcome Christmas
VocalEssence, one of the world's premiere choral groups, performs traditional carols and new discoveries.
9am-10am
A Handel and Haydn Society Christmas
The Handel and Haydn Society is America's oldest continuously performing ensemble. This program features sacred choral music for the season by Handel, Gustav Holst, Eric Whitacre, John Rutter and more.
10am-11am
Carols and Cheer
Scott Blankenship and T. Mychael Rambo review their favorite carols this holiday season. Audiences will love singing along as they share their top picks for the Christmas season, performed by today's leading artists and ensembles.
11am-12pm
An Early Music Christmas
This program presents seasonal music from the distant past and through the ages, both sublime and earthly, across time and place, and across beliefs and traditions. Hosted by Angela Mariani, it features a rich selection of well-known holiday vocal music, including selections from Handel's Messiah, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and a variety of traditional hymns, carols and song.
12pm-1pm
A Chanticleer Christmas
This unique program of holiday music was presented live in concert at the Cathedral of St. Paul by male vocal ensemble Chanticleer. Hear why this superb 12-man ensemble is known as "an orchestra of voices," as they perform holiday classics and new favorites.
1pm-2pm
A Leroy Anderson Christmas Festival
Hosted by Leroy Anderson's son Kurt, this program contains classic Christmas arrangements and original music by Leroy Anderson. Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, and Leroy Anderson leads his own Pops Orchestra. Leroy also talks about how he wrote some of his famous Christmas music and what Christmas means to him.
2pm-3pm
Christmas with Madrigalia
The Rochester, New York, chamber choir Madrigalia performs traditional carols and anthems from the Medieval era through the twenty-first century celebrating winter solstice, Chanukah, Christmas and the new year.
3pm-4pm
Canadian Brass: Christmastime is Here
This program features arrangements of music by Vince Guaraldi and Luther Henderson as well as traditional favorites from "A Charlie Brown Christmas," "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Frosty the Snowman" and more -- timeless classics infused with jazz and lush harmonies.
4pm-5pm
Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
The world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir continues its tradition of great artistry this holiday season, with touching arrangements of familiar carols, and lesser-known melodies that are fast becoming the new classics. Mack Wilberg leads the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra.
5pm-6pm
Christmas with Anonymous 4
Recorded in Corpus Christi church in New York City, Anonymous 4 presents a vocal program called A Virgin Unspotted: Medieval and Traditional Christmas Songs for Mary.
6pm-8pm
Performance Today
8pm-10pm
St. Olaf Christmas Festival
This service in song and word has become one of the nation's most cherished holiday celebrations. The festival includes hymns, carols, choral works, as well as orchestral selections celebrating the Nativity and featuring more than 500 student musicians in five choirs, and the St. Olaf Orchestra.
10pm-12am
O Magnum Mysterium: The Brass & Choral Holiday Concert
Music makes the holidays come alive, and through the centuries this special time of year inspired composers to new creative heights. Drawn from diverse cultures and various points in history, conductor William Jon Gray has assembled a program highlighting multifarious holiday traditions around a single unifying principle: music gives voice to the spirit of the season.
