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Playlist For December 23, 2025
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12:02 AM
- Traditional
- Suite of Carols for Winds
- Winds of the BBC Concert Orchestra
- Leonard Slatkin, conductor
- Album: Sleigh Ride & Other Holiday Favorites
4:5812:07 AM- Traditional
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- Choir of King's College, Cambridge
- Stephen Cleobury, conductor
- Album: Nine Lessons & Carols / Stephen Cleobury, Choir Of King's College Cambridge
3:2012:11 AM- Traditional
- The Friendly Beasts
- Alice Parker, arranger
- Melodious Accord
- Alice Parker, conductor
- Album: And Glory Shone
2:5812:14 AM- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf preiset die Tage
- Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo
- Nancy Argenta, soprano
- English Baroque Soloists
- Monteverdi Choir
- John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
- Album: Complete Christmas Celebration
7:3912:22 AM- Traditional
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Halle Choir
- Halle Orchestra
- Maurice Handford, conductor
- Album: 100 Best Carols
1:3112:24 AM- Adolphe Adam
- O Holy Night
- Album: Elina Garanca | Meditation
5:2112:29 AM- Ariel Ramirez
- Navidad nuestra: La Peregrinacion
- Peter Knight, arranger
- The King's Singers
- Album: King's Singers Christmas
3:0212:32 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
2:3212:35 AM- Traditional
- Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly
- Robert Shaw Chorale
- Robert Shaw, conductor
- Album: The Most Fabulous Classical Christmas Album Ever
2:1012:37 AM- Medieval English Carols and Motets
- Nunc Dimittis
- Lionheart Ensemble
1:4412:39 AM- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048: I. Allegro
- Alison Bury, violin
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Album: 100 Best Bach
5:3612:44 AM- Traditional
- O Sanctissima
- Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
- Album: A Festival of Carols in Brass
1:5612:46 AM- Katherine Davis
- Little Drummer Boy
- Thomas Hampson, baritone
- Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
- Hugh Wolff, conductor
- Album: Christmas with Thomas Hampson
2:4612:49 AM- Traditional
- Ding Dong Merrily on High
- Choir of King's College, Cambridge
- Stephen Cleobury, conductor
- Album: Favorite Carols From King's
2:0212:51 AM- George Frideric Handel
- Joy To The World
- Album: Joy to the World
1:5012:53 AM- Traditional
- Jesu Kriste, scedry kneze
- Album: A Bohemian Christmas
1:1812:54 AM- John Rutter
- I wish you Christmas
- The Cambridge Singers
- Farnham Youth Choir
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- John Rutter, conductor
- Album: A Christmas Festival
4:2712:59 AM- Anonymous
- Come thou, redeemer of the Earth
- Benedictine Nuns Of Mary Queen Of Apostles
- Album: Advent At Ephesus / Benedictines Of Mary, Queen Of Apostles
2:4901:02 AM- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- The Nutcracker: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
- Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
- Michael Halasz, conductor
- Album: WQXR For the Holidays
1:4901:04 AM- Johann Christoph Bach
- Merk auf, mein Herz
- Chamber Choir Ireland
- Paul Hillier, conductor
- Album: Carols | Vol. III | Chamber Choir Ireland / Paul Hillier
10:5101:15 AM- Franz Gruber
- Noch' tikha, noch svyata (Silent Night)
- Album: Russian Christmas
3:1201:18 AM- Gustav Holst
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- Jacqueline Kerrod, harp
- Seraphic Fire
- Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor
- Album: Candlelight Carols | Seraphic Fire | Patrick Dupre Quigley
5:4401:24 AM- Richard Willis
- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Leontyne Price, soprano
- Members of the Vienna Philharmonic
- Herbert von Karajan, conductor
- Album: Christmas at the Met
1:4901:25 AM- Peter Warlock
- Benedicamus Domino
- Album: Carols by Candlelight
1:2501:27 AM- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde
- English Baroque Soloists
- Monteverdi Choir
- John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
- Album: Complete Christmas Celebration
4:5501:32 AM- Traditional
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Arthur Harris, arranger
- Kathleen Battle, soprano
- Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
- Orchestra of St. Luke's
- The American Boychoir
- The Christmas Concert Chorus
- Andre Previn, conductor
- Album: A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert
5:3201:37 AM- 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
2:2501:40 AM- Fum, Fum, Fum
- Album: Stradivarius Christmas
2:0601:42 AM- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048: III. Allegro
- Album: 100 Best Bach
4:3601:47 AM- Traditional
- Suite of Carols for Brass
- Album: A Festival of Carols in Brass
3:4701:51 AM- Traditional
- I Saw Three Ships
- The Choir of Trinity Church
- Album: WQXR For the Holidays
1:3901:52 AM- Irving Berlin
- White Christmas
- George Andrews, arranger
- The Hampton String Quartet
- Album: What if Mozart Wrote Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
3:3801:56 AM- Traditional
- Sussex Carol
- 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
2:3701:59 AM- David Overton
- Fantasy on In dulci jubilo
- James Galway, flute
- Munich Radio Orchestra
- John Georgiadis, conductor
- Album: In Dulci Jubilo: Christmas with James Galway
4:5802:04 AM- Traditional
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- David Bell, organ
- Huddersfield Choral Society
- Owain Arwel Hughes, conductor
- Album: 100 Best Carols
2:1102:06 AM- Traditional
- O come Divine Messiah
- Benedictine Nuns Of Mary Queen Of Apostles
- Album: Advent At Ephesus / Benedictines Of Mary, Queen Of Apostles
3:4002:10 AM- Antonio Vivaldi
- Concerto per il Santissimo natale in E Major, RV 270
- Angele Dubeau, violin
- La Pieta
- Angele Dubeau, conductor
- Album: Noel
8:5002:19 AM- Traditional
- While Shepherds Watched their Flocks
- Choir of King's College, Cambridge
- Stephen Cleobury, conductor
- Album: Nine Lessons & Carols / Stephen Cleobury, Choir Of King's College Cambridge
2:5502:22 AM- Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych
- Carol of the Bells
- Robert Cundick, arranger
- New York Philharmonic
- Leonard Bernstein, conductor
- Album: Christmas Greatest Hits
2:3502:24 AM- Giovanni Palestrina
- Hodie Christus Natus Est
- Vienna Choir Boys
- Vienna Boys Choir
2:0902:27 AM- Traditional
- O come, all ye faithful (Adeste Fideles)
- Mack Wilberg, arranger
- Bryn Terfel, baritone
- Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera
- Cordydd
- Tecwyn Evans, conductor
- Album: Bryn Terfel | Carols and Christmas Songs
3:2602:30 AM- Traditional
- Lully lulla, thou little tiny child (Coventry Carol)
- Album: Christmas with The Westminster Choir
2:5202:33 AM- Anonymous
- Drive the Cold Winter Away
- Album: Bright Day Star: Music for the Yuletide Season
3:2402:36 AM- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- The Nutcracker: March
- Stewart Goodyear, piano
- Album: Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker | Complete Ballet Arranged for Solo Piano
2:1902:39 AM- Traditional
- Angels We Have Heard On High
- Ayako Shinozaki, harp
- Album: Silent Night: Beautiful Christmas Melodies
3:1202:42 AM- Felix Mendelssohn
- Hark The Herald Angels Sing
- Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Bill Ives, conductor
- Album: Carols by Candlelight
3:0102:45 AM- Traditional
- Ding Dong Merrily on High
- Mack Wilberg, arranger
- Michael Bloss, organ
- Elora Festival Singers
- Noel Edison, conductor
- Album: The Wonder of Christmas
2:0402:47 AM- James Pierpont
- Jingle Bells
- Howard Cable, arranger
- Eric Robertson, organ
- Canadian Brass
- Album: Christmas Tradition
1:5002:49 AM- Medieval English Carols and Motets
- Ecce, quod natura
- Lionheart Ensemble
4:1602:54 AM- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Schlafe, mein Liebster
- Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo
- English Baroque Soloists
- Monteverdi Choir
- John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
- Album: Complete Christmas Celebration
9:1903:03 AM- Traditional
- Nun Wandre, Maria
3:3903:07 AM- Traditional
- The Cherry Tree
- Anonymous 4
- Album: The Cherry Tree
3:0603:10 AM- George Frideric Handel
- Messiah: His yoke is easy
- Tafelmusik
- Ivars Taurins, conductor
- Album: Handel: Messiah / Taurins, Gauvin, Blaze, Muller, Polegato
2:2503:12 AM- Gustav Holst
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
- Andrew Carwood, conductor
- Album: Carols | St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
4:3803:17 AM- Traditional
- Somerset Carol
- Album: Song of the Nativity
1:4503:19 AM- Traditional
- Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly
- Eileen Farrell, soprano
- Uncredited Orchestra
- Uncredited Chorus
- Luther Henderson, conductor
- Album: Christmas at the Met
1:3903:20 AM- Traditional
- The Truth From Above (Herefordshire Carol)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams, arranger
- Choir of King's College, Cambridge
- Stephen Cleobury, conductor
- Album: Favorite Carols From King's
2:4003:23 AM- Rihards Dubra
- Rejoice, Daughter of Zion
- Balsis Youth Choir
- New Chamber Orchestra of Riga
- New York Latvian Concert Choir
- Andrejs Jansons, conductor
- Album: Christmas Joy in Latvia
3:3703:27 AM- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- German Dance No. 3 in C, K. 605, "Sleigh Ride"
2:4703:30 AM- Leroy Anderson
- Sleigh Ride
- Jeff Scott, arranger
- Imani Winds
- Album: This Christmas
2:4603:32 AM- Traditional
- The Holly and the Ivy
- Eric Robertson, arranger
- Liona Boyd, guitar
- Album: A Guitar for Christmas
2:2603:35 AM- Daniel Read
- Winter
- Paul Hillier, arranger
- Chamber Choir Ireland
- Paul Hillier, conductor
- Album: Carols | Vol. III | Chamber Choir Ireland / Paul Hillier
3:1303:38 AM- Louis-Claude Daquin
- Noel Suisse
- Marie-Claire Alain, organ
- Album: Carols for Organ
4:3003:43 AM- Walter Rollins
- Frosty The Snowman
- Steve Nelson
- George Andrews, arranger
- The Hampton String Quartet
- Album: What if Mozart Wrote Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
5:1203:48 AM- Irving Berlin
- White Christmas
- George Andrews, arranger
- The Northern Lights Orchestra
- Petri Juutilainen, conductor
- Album: What if Mozart Wrote White Christmas
3:4203:52 AM- Traditional English
- Sussex Carol
- Nick Lee, organ
- Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
- Geoffrey Webber, conductor
- Album: Dormi Jesu | A Caius Christmas
1:5003:54 AM- Traditional
- O Tannenbaum
- Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
- Album: A Festival of Carols in Brass
1:1603:55 AM- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- The Nutcracker: Character Dances
- Album: The Nutcracker
11:0704:06 AM- Dr. Arnold
- Herald Angels
- Album: And Glory Shone Around | The Rose Ensemble
2:2404:09 AM- Traditional
- Quittez Pasteurs
- John Rutter, arranger
- Jacqueline Kerrod, harp
- Seraphic Fire
- Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor
- Album: Candlelight Carols | Seraphic Fire | Patrick Dupre Quigley
2:1904:11 AM- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Fantasia on "Greensleeves"
- John Eaken, violin
- Nancy Baun, cello
- Gloria Whitney, piano
- Eaken Piano Trio
- Album: Home for the Holidays
5:0204:16 AM- Albert Perilhou
- La vierge a la creche
- Claude Gagnon, arranger
- Angele Dubeau, violin
- La Pieta
- Angele Dubeau, conductor
- Album: Noel
3:0604:20 AM- Traditional
- Mary Had A Baby
- Kathleen Battle, soprano
- Album: Angels' Glory
2:4304:23 AM- Traditional
- The Wexford Carol
- Album: Bryn Terfel | Carols and Christmas Songs
4:1404:27 AM- Traditional
- Gabriel's Message
- Alexander Craig, arranger
- Geoffrey Williams, countertenor
- Steven Caldicott Wilson, tenor
- Christopher Dylan Herbert, baritone
- Craig Phillips, bass
- New York Polyphony
- Album: Sing thee Nowell
2:1204:29 AM- James Whitbourn
- Missa carolae: Gloria
- Album: Whitbourn: Carolae | Music for Christmas
4:0304:33 AM- Nancy Telfer
- Mary Wondered What It Meant
- Album: A Child's Christmas in Bethlehem
4:5004:38 AM- Jacobus Gallus
- Puer Concinite
- Vienna Boys Choir
1:2304:39 AM- Cesar Franck
- Panis angelicus
- Alan Boustead, arranger
- Juan Diego Florez, tenor
- Bologna Community Theater Orchestra
- Michele Mariotti, conductor
- Album: Juan Diego Florez | Santo
3:2704:43 AM- Richard Willis
- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Robert Rice, arranger
- The King's Singers
- Album: The King's Singers Christmas Songbook
4:1204:47 AM- Traditional
- I Saw Three Ships
- Douglas Tang, organ
- Choir of King's College, Cambridge
- Stephen Cleobury, conductor
- Album: Favorite Carols From King's
2:0504:50 AM- Traditional
- Vom Himmel Hoch, O Engel Kommt!
- Album: 100 Best Carols
3:1004:53 AM- Michael Praetorius
- Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
- The Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola
- Kent Tritle, conductor
- Album: Silent Night: Music for Advent and Christmas
2:5104:56 AM- William Knapp
- A Virgin Unspotted
- Anonymous 4
- Album: The Cherry Tree
2:2704:58 AM- Alexander Glazunov
- Jour de Fete: Les Chanteurs de Noel
- La Pieta
- Angele Dubeau, conductor
- Album: Noel
6:4305:05 AM- Traditional
- Good King Wenceslas
- Don Gillis, arranger
- Eric Robertson, organ
- Canadian Brass
- Album: Christmas Tradition
1:2005:06 AM- Traditional
- O come, O come, Emmanuel
- Joseph Jennings, arranger
- Chanticleer
3:1105:10 AM- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- The Nutcracker: Dance of the Reed Pipes
- Martha Argerich, piano
- Nicolas Economou, piano
- Album: The Classic Christmas Album
2:0605:12 AM- Michael Praetorius
- In dulci jubilo
- Rita Lilly, soprano
- Stephen Rapp, organ
- American Classical Orchestra
- Thomas Crawford, conductor
- Album: A Baroque Christmas in Germany
4:2205:16 AM- Felix Mendelssohn
- Hark The Herald Angels Sing
- Randal Alan Bass, arranger
- Boston Pops Orchestra
- Tanglewood Festival Chorus
- Keith Lockhart, conductor
- Album: A Boston Pops Christmas: Live Friom Symphony Hall
3:3105:20 AM- Harold Darke
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- The Bach Choir
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- John Rutter, conductor
- Album: John Rutter: The Colors of Christmas
4:0505:24 AM- Traditional
- While Shepherds Watched their Flocks
- Choir of Kings College, Cambridge
- Benjamin Bayl, organ
- Choir of King's College, Cambridge
- Stephen Cleobury, conductor
- Album: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
2:5305:27 AM- Bartholomaus Riedl
- Das Kindl-Woegen auf Weihnacht
- Album: A Christmas Legend: Resonet in laudibus
1:3505:29 AM- Edvard Grieg
- Weihnachten
- Fredo Jung, arranger
- Calmus Ensemble Leipzig
- Album: Calmus Christmas Carols
2:1805:31 AM- Traditional
- Angels We Have Heard On High
- John Rutter, arranger
- The Cambridge Singers
- The Cambridge Singers Orchestra
- John Rutter, conductor
- Album: Christmas Star | Carols for the Christmas Season
2:1705:33 AM- Hugh Martin
- Have yourself a merry little Christmas
- Mitch Farber, arranger
- The Northern Lights Orchestra
- Petri Juutilainen, conductor
- Album: What if Mozart Wrote White Christmas
3:3605:37 AM- Edvard Grieg
- Ave Maris Stella, EG 150
- Regensburger Domspatzen
- Ronald Buchner, conductor
- Album: 100 Christmas Classics
2:3005:39 AM- Louis-Claude Daquin
- Noel X
- David Overton, arranger
- Michala Petri, recorder
- National Philharmonic Orchestra
- Martin Neary, conductor
- Album: Noel! Noel! Noel!
3:0805:43 AM- Traditional
- The First Noel
- Michael Bloss, organ
- Elora Festival Singers
- Noel Edison, conductor
- Album: The Wonder of Christmas
5:2605:48 AM- Traditional
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Arthur Harris, arranger
- The Philadelphia Orchestra
- The Philadelphia Chorus
- Eugene Ormandy, conductor
- Album: Joy to the World
2:0105:50 AM- Irving Berlin
- White Christmas
- Marcus Roberts, piano
2:4605:53 AM- Leroy Anderson
- O Sanctissima
- Album: Sleigh Ride & Other Holiday Favorites
1:3805:55 AM- Arcangelo Corelli
- Concerto grosso No. 8 in G Minor, Op. 6, "Christmas Concerto"
- Dorothee Oberlinger, arranger
- Dorothee Oberlinger, recorder
- Ensemble 1700
- Li Piffari e le Muse
- Dorothee Oberlinger, conductor
- Album: Pastorale
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