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Playlist For December 25, 2025
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11:04 AM
- Victor Herbert
- Babes in Toyland: March of the Toys
- St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
- Leonard Slatkin, conductor
- Album: Classic Marches
3:4211:08 AM- Irving Berlin
- White Christmas
- George Andrews, arranger
- The Hampton String Quartet
- Album: What if Mozart Wrote Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
3:3811:12 AM- Traditional
- Go Tell it on the Mountain
- John Rutter, arranger
- The Cambridge Singers
- The Cambridge Singers Orchestra
- John Rutter, conductor
- Album: Christmas Star | Carols for the Christmas Season
3:1311:15 AM- Traditional
- The Wassail Song
- Arranged by Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, arranger
- Yo-Yo Ma, cello
- Edgar Meyer, bass
- Chris Thile, mandolin
- Album: Yo-yo Ma and Friends: Songs of Joy & Peace
2:3211:19 AM- Traditional
- Andorinha gloriosa
- Calmus Ensemble Leipzig
- Album: Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt
1:2011:20 AM- Daniel Sudermann
- Es kommt ein Schiff geladen
- Calmus Ensemble Leipzig
- Album: Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt
2:2511:22 AM- Margaret Bonds
- Bright Star
- Lara Downes, arranger
- Lara Downes, piano
1:2911:24 AM- Bob Chilcott
- The Shepherd's Carol
- Handel and Haydn Society
- Harry Christophers, conductor
- Album: Joy to the world|An American Christmas
3:1911:27 AM- Nigel Hess
- A Christmas Overture
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- John Rutter, conductor
- Album: A Christmas Festival
7:2211:35 AM- Traditional
- I Can Tell the World
- Moses Hogan, arranger
- The Boys Choir of Harlem
- Album: Precious Lord - Take My Hand
2:4811:37 AM- Traditional
- I Saw Three Ships
- Roger Harvey, arranger
- Burning River Brass
- Album: Twas the Night Before Christmas
1:2611:39 AM- Traditional
- What Child is This? (Greensleeves)
- Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
- Album: A Festival of Carols in Brass
1:4511:41 AM- Thomas Weelkes
- Hosanna to the Son of David
- Hanover Boys' Choir
- London Brass
- Jorg Breiding, conductor
- Album: Knabenchor Hannover | Christmas Carols
2:1611:44 AM- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Noels pour les instruments, H. 534
- Les Violons du Roy
- Bernard Labadie, conductor
- Album: Simphonies des Noels
14:3011:59 AM- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- German Dance No. 3 in C, K. 605, "Sleigh Ride"
- Boston Pops Orchestra
- Arthur Fiedler, conductor
- Album: Pops Christmas Party
2:4012:02 PM- Traditional
- Like the dawning
- Benedictine Nuns Of Mary Queen Of Apostles
- Album: Advent At Ephesus / Benedictines Of Mary, Queen Of Apostles
3:0212:05 PM- Traditional
- The First Noel
- Michael Bloss, organ
- Elora Festival Singers
- Noel Edison, conductor
- Album: The Wonder of Christmas
5:2612:10 PM- Gustav Holst
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- Christina Rossetti
- Alex Berko, arranger
- Miro String Quartet
- Album: Hearth
5:0212:15 PM- Traditional
- Sussex Carol
- Ola Gjeilo, arranger
- Ola Gjeilo, piano
- Album: Cozy Winter
1:3612:18 PM- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- The Nutcracker: Trepak
- New York Philharmonic
- Alan Gilbert, conductor
1:0812:19 PM- Traditional
- Come, My Children Dere
- Alexander Montgomerie & Jeannette Sorrell, arranger
- Meredith Hall, soprano
- Apollo's Singers
- Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra
- Ensemble La Nef
- Jeannette Sorrell, conductor
- Album: Sacrum Mysterium - A Celtic Christmas Vespers / Sorrell, Apollo's Fire
2:5712:22 PM- Engelbert Humperdinck
- Hansel and Gretel: Dream Pantomime
- Munich Radio Orchestra
- Kurt Eichhorn, conductor
- Album: Hansel and Gretel
5:2612:28 PM- George Frideric Handel
- Messiah: Glory to God in the highest
- Tafelmusik
- Ivars Taurins, conductor
- Album: Handel: Messiah / Taurins, Gauvin, Blaze, Muller, Polegato
1:5212:30 PM- Ghislaine Reece-Trapp
- Alleluia! A New Work is Come on Hand
- Westminster School Choir
- Timothy Garrard, conductor
- Album: Now May We Singen: Music for Advent and Christmas
1:4712:31 PM- Traditional
- It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
- Handel and Haydn Society
- Harry Christophers, conductor
- Album: Joy to the world|An American Christmas
2:4112:34 PM- Traditional
- El Noi de la Mare
- Miguel Llobet, arranger
- Mattias Schulstad, guitar
- Album: Invocacion: Chopin, Tarrega, Pujol, Llobet
2:2712:36 PM- Giovanni Gabrieli
- Sacrae symphoniae (1597): Canzon duodecimi toni
- National Brass Ensemble
- Joseph Alessi, conductor
- Album: Gabrieli
3:4812:40 PM- Traditional
- Angels We Have Heard On High
- Arthur Harris, arranger
- The Philadelphia Orchestra
- The Philadelphia Chorus
- Eugene Ormandy, conductor
- Album: Joy to the World
3:0412:43 PM- Camille Saint-Saens
- Oratorio de Noel op. 12: Tollite hostias
- Verena Schweizer, soprano
- Edith Wiens, Soprano
- Helena Jungwirth, soprano
- Friedreich Melzer, tenor
- Kurt Widmer, bass
- Hans-Joachim Bartsch, organ
- Bach Choir of Mainz
- Bach Orchestra of Mainz
- Diethard Hellmann, conductor
- Album: Saint-Saens | Weihnachtsoratorium
2:1712:46 PM- Franz Liszt
- Weihnachtsbaum: In dulce jubilo
- Jeffrey Biegel, piano
- Album: A Steinway Christmas Album | Piano Music for the Season
3:0112:50 PM- John Stainer
- How Beautiful Upon the Mountains
- Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Bill Ives, conductor
- Album: Carols by Candlelight
2:2212:52 PM- Antonio Vivaldi
- Four Seasons: L'inverno, (Winter) Op. 8/4: II. Largo
- Albrecht Mayer, oboe
- New Seasons Ensemble
- Albrecht Mayer, conductor
- Album: Albrecht Mayer | Vocalise
2:0512:54 PM- Felix Mendelssohn
- Christus, Op. 97: There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob
- Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
- JoAnn Falletta, conductor
- Album: Sounds of the Season
4:5601:01 PM- Traditional
- Dona Nobis Pacem (improvisation)
- Sergio Assad, guitar
- Odair Assad, guitar
- Album: Yo-yo Ma and Friends: Songs of Joy & Peace
0:5301:01 PM- Traditional
- O Tannenbaum
- Carmen Dragon, arranger
- Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
- Erich Kunzel, conductor
- Album: Christmas with the Pops
3:1301:05 PM- Karl Neuner
- Frohliche Weihnacht uberall
- Vienna Boys Choir
- Album: Merry Christmas from Vienna
2:4101:07 PM- Michael Praetorius
- Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern
- Gabrielle Haigh, soprano
- Sophie Horrocks, soprano
- Nils Greenhow, tenor
- Christopher Loyn, tenor
- William Cole, bass
- David Miller, theorbo
- Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
- The Dmitri Ensemble
- Graham Ross, conductor
- Album: Lux de caelo | Christmas
2:2901:10 PM- SWEEPER - WQXR Jingle (SoHarmoniums Women's Choir)
0:1001:10 PM- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Jesu, richte mein Beginnen
- Matthias Hofs, arranger
- German Brass
- Album: Brass Christmas
2:0801:12 PM- June Nixon
- Behold a Simple Tender Babe
- The Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne
- Christopher Watson, conductor
- Album: Beneath the Incense Tree
1:4301:14 PM- Traditional
- The Holly and the Ivy
- Eric Robertson, arranger
- Liona Boyd, guitar
- Album: A Guitar for Christmas
2:2601:17 PM- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- The Forest of Wild Thyme, Op. 74: Christmas Overture
- BBC Concert Orchestra
- Barry Wordsworth, conductor
- Album: The Night Before Christmas and other Seasonal Music for Orchestra
5:4501:23 PM- Traditional
- Un Flambeau, Jeannette, Isabella
- John Rutter, arranger
- The Cambridge Singers
- The Cambridge Singers Orchestra
- John Rutter, conductor
- Album: Christmas Star | Carols for the Christmas Season
2:2501:25 PM- Katherine Davis
- Little Drummer Boy
- Ray Wright, arranger
- New York Pops
- Skitch Henderson, conductor
- Album: Christmas in the Country
3:0801:29 PM- Adolphe Adam
- O Holy Night
- Chris Hazell, arranger
- Bryn Terfel, baritone
- Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera
- Tecwyn Evans, conductor
- Album: Bryn Terfel | Carols and Christmas Songs
3:0401:32 PM- Tomaso Albinoni
- Suite in G Major
- Empire Brass
- Album: Royal Brass, Music from the Renaissance & Baroque
5:1501:37 PM- Sir William Walton
- Make we joy now in this fest
- Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
- Geoffrey Webber, conductor
- Album: Dormi Jesu | A Caius Christmas
3:2701:41 PM- Various
- Christmas Suite I
- Robert Russell Bennett, arranger
- Robert Arnold, organ
- Robert Shaw Chorale
- RCA Victor Orchestra
- Robert Shaw, conductor
- Album: The Many Moods of Christmas
11:2401:52 PM- Edvard Grieg
- Ave Maris Stella, EG 150
- Regensburger Domspatzen
- Ronald Buchner, conductor
- Album: 100 Christmas Classics
2:3001:55 PM- Lowell Mason
- Joy To The World
- Patrick Kerber, arranger
- Los Romeros
- Album: Christmas With Los Romeros
2:2701:57 PM- Giovanni Gabrieli
- Sacrae symphoniae (1597): Canzon septimi toni No. 2
- National Brass Ensemble
- Gail Williams, conductor
- Album: Gabrieli
2:5302:01 PM- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers
- Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France
- Paavo Jarvi, conductor
- Album: 101 Best Classics
6:0002:07 PM- Anthony Holborne
- Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other short Aeirs: As it fell on a Holie Eve; The Cradle; The Night Watch
- Parthenia
- Album: As It Fell on a Holie Eve: Music for an Elizabethan Christmas
5:1602:12 PM- Traditional
- Ding Dong Merrily on High
- Mack Wilburg & Mark Jordan, arranger
- Sebastian Guard, percussion
- Benjamin Cunningham, organ
- Winchester College Chapel Choir
- Onyx Brass
- Howard Ionascu, conductor
- Album: A Winter's Night: Christmas Music for Choir, Brass Quintet & Organ
2:2902:15 PM- Anonymous
- Jolly Old St. Nicholas
- I Solisti di Duino
- Antonio Pelligrino, conductor
- Album: Celestial Christmas, Vol. 2
2:5402:18 PM- Traditional
- El desembre congelat
- Calmus Ensemble Leipzig
- Album: Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt
2:4102:20 PM- Traditional
- Sing We Now of Christmas
- Fred Prentice, arranger
- Brigham Young University Singers
- Ronald Staheli, conductor
- Album: Celebration of Christmas | Carol of Joy
1:4302:22 PM- Steve Nelson
- Frosty The Snowman
- Walter Rollins
- Luther Henderson, arranger
- Bill Cahn, percussion
- Canadian Brass
- Album: Christmas Time is Here
2:1702:25 PM- John Goss
- See Amid the Winter's Snow
- Bach Choir
- Jacques Orchestra
- Sir David Willcocks, conductor
- Album: 100 Best Carols
3:4002:29 PM- Traditional
- Dormi, Jesu
- Kathleen Battle, soprano
- Album: Angels' Glory
2:1702:31 PM- Traditional Basque
- I Saw A Maiden
- Choir of King's College, Cambridge
- Sir David Willcocks, conductor
- Album: 100 Best Carols
3:0202:34 PM- Anonymous
- El la don don/Riu, riu, chiu
- Chanticleer
3:5302:38 PM- Traditional
- Gaudete Christus est natus
- Paul Hillier, arranger
- Choir of the Queen's College, Oxford
- Owen Rees, conductor
- Album: Carols from Queen's
1:3002:41 PM- Morten Lauridsen
- O magnum mysterium
- Seraphic Fire
- Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor
- Album: A Seraphic Fire Christmas
4:1802:46 PM- Noel Regney
- Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Gloria Shayne Baker
- Joaquin J. Lopez, arranger
- The Hampton String Quartet
- Album: What if Mozart Wrote Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
4:0802:50 PM- Traditional
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Joan Sutherland, soprano
- New Philharmonia Orchestra
- Richard Bonynge, conductor
- Album: Joy to the World
3:0902:53 PM- Gaetano Maria Schiassi
- Christmas Symphony
- Cis Collegium Mozarteum Salzburg
- Jurgen Geise, conductor
- Album: Christmas Concertos
7:2003:01 PM- Franz Schubert
- Ave Maria
- Chris Hazell, arranger
- Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
- Members of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Members of the English Chamber Orchestra
- Members of the Philharmonia Orchestra
- Christopher Warren-Green, conductor
- Album: The Royal Wedding: The Official Album
2:3903:03 PM- John Rutter
- Candlelight Carol
- Arturo Delmoni, arranger
- Arturo Delmoni and Friends, String Quartet
- Album: Rejoice! A String Quartet Christmas, Vol. 3
4:2403:08 PM- Carlos Salzedo
- Paraphrase on 'O little Town of Bethlehem'
- Xavier de Maistre, harp
- Album: Christmas Harp
1:5503:10 PM- Alexander Grechaninov
- Snowflakes, Op. 47: Snowflakes
- Russian State Symphony Orchestra
- Russian State Symphonic Cappella
- Valery Polyansky, conductor
- Album: Symphony No. 1, etc.
1:4603:12 PM- Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych
- Carol of the Bells
- Robert Cundick, arranger
- New York Philharmonic
- Leonard Bernstein, conductor
- Album: Christmas Greatest Hits
2:3503:14 PM- Traditional
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- New York Philharmonic
- The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
- Leonard Bernstein, conductor
- Album: The Joy of Christmas with Leonard Bernstein
2:1203:17 PM- Gian Carlo Menotti
- Amahl and the Night Visitors: Shepherds' Dance
- Nashville Symphony Orchestra
- Alastair Willis, conductor
- Album: Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors
3:2003:21 PM- Traditional
- O come, O come, Emmanuel
- Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Bill Ives, conductor
- Album: Carols by Candlelight
3:0503:24 PM- Taylor Scott Davis
- Magnificat IV: Deposuit
- Voces8
- VOCES8 Foundation Choir
- VOCES8 Foundation Orchestra
- Barnaby Smith, conductor
- Album: A Choral Christmas
3:0103:27 PM- Leon Jessel
- Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers
- Ralph Hermann, arranger
- New York Pops
- Skitch Henderson, conductor
- Album: Christmas in the Country
3:4403:31 PM- Felix Bernard
- Winter Wonderland
- Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- London Voices
- Carl Davis, conductor
- Album: Christmas 101
3:5203:34 PM- Traditional
- Rocking
- Edward Higginbottom, arranger
- The Choir of New College, Oxford
- The Choir of New College, Oxford
- Edward Higginbottom, conductor
2:3403:37 PM- Max Reger
- Aus der Jugendzeit, Op. 17, No. 9, Weihnachtstraum
- Jeffrey Biegel, piano
- Album: A Steinway Christmas Album | Piano Music for the Season
2:0603:39 PM- Traditional
- O Come Little Children
- The Philadelphia Orchestra
- Eugene Ormandy, conductor
- Album: The Glorious Sound of Christmas
1:4503:41 PM- Jose Feliciano
- Feliz Navidad
- Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
- Vienna Symphony Orchestra
- Gumpoldskirch Boys Choir
- Steven Mercurio, conductor
- Album: Christmas with Pavarotti
2:5703:44 PM- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Cantata BWV 63 "Christen, atzet diesen Tag": Christen, atzet diesen Tag
- English Baroque Soloists
- John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
- Album: Cantatas | Christmas
4:5103:49 PM- Traditional
- Fantasia on "I Saw Three Ships"
- James Galway, flute
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- James Galway, conductor
- Album: The Most Fabulous Classical Christmas Album Ever
3:0703:52 PM- George Frideric Handel
- Messiah: For Unto Us a Child is Born
- Gabrieli Consort and Players
- Paul McCreesh, conductor
- Album: History of Classical Music in 24 Hours
3:3603:56 PM- Jose Pacheco
- Moita Festa
- London Chamber Orchestra
- Christopher Warren-Green, conductor
- Album: Midwinter's Eve
2:5403:59 PM- Johnny Marks
- Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Richard Hayman, arranger
- Boston Pops Orchestra
- Keith Lockhart, conductor
- Album: A Boston Pops Christmas: Live Friom Symphony Hall
2:1108:58 PM- Traditional
- Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly
- Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
- Album: A Festival of Carols in Brass
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