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Playlist For December 30, 2025
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12:01 AM
- Various Composers
- Suite of English Carols
- Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Bill Ives, conductor
- Album: Carols by Candlelight
6:4312:08 AM- A Christmas Suite
12:0312:20 AM- Thomas Weelkes
- Hosanna to the Son of David
- Hanover Boys' Choir
- London Brass
- Jorg Breiding, conductor
- Album: Knabenchor Hannover | Christmas Carols
2:1612:22 AM- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- German Dance No. 3 in C, K. 605, "Sleigh Ride"
- Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
- Claudio Abbado, conductor
2:3812:26 AM- Traditional
- Rocking (Little Jesus, Sweetly Sleep)
- John Carol Case, arranger
- Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano
- Kevin Murphy, piano
1:5912:28 AM- Anonymous
- Jolly Old St. Nicholas
- I Solisti di Duino
- Antonio Pelligrino, conductor
- Album: Celestial Christmas, Vol. 2
2:5412:31 AM- Michael Praetorius
- Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
- Monteverdi Choir
- John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
- Album: Once as I remember
3:5412:34 AM- Traditional
- The First Noel
- Michael Bloss, organ
- Elora Festival Singers
- Noel Edison, conductor
- Album: The Wonder of Christmas
5:2612:40 AM- Michael Praetorius
- In dulci jubilo
- Tessa Bonner, soprano
- Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor
- Charles Daniels, tenor
- David Thomas, bass
- Eichard Wistreich, bass
- Taverner Consort, Choir and Players
- Andrew Parrott, conductor
- Album: 100 Best Carols
3:3812:44 AM- Giovanni Francesco Anerio
- Voi ch'ai notturni rai
- Theatre of Voices
- Ars Nova Copenhagen
- Paul Hillier, conductor
- Album: The Christmas Story
6:0712:50 AM- George Frideric Handel
- Messiah: His yoke is easy
- Tafelmusik
- Ivars Taurins, conductor
- Album: Handel: Messiah / Taurins, Gauvin, Blaze, Muller, Polegato
2:2512:53 AM- Humphrey Clucas
- Love came down at Christmas
2:0212:55 AM- Mel Torme
- The Christmas Song
- Bob Wells
- John Clark, arranger
- Imani Winds
- Album: This Christmas
3:2612:58 AM- 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
3:0401:01 AM- George Frideric Handel
- Joy to the World
- Isaac Watts
- Choir of King's College, Cambridge
- Stephen Cleobury, conductor
- Album: Favorite Carols From King's
2:5501:04 AM- Traditional
- Christmas Eve
- Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra
- Jeannette Sorrell, conductor
- Album: Sacrum Mysterium - A Celtic Christmas Vespers / Sorrell, Apollo's Fire
1:5101:06 AM- Traditional
- Fantasia on "I Saw Three Ships"
- James Galway, flute
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- James Galway, conductor
- Album: The Most Fabulous Classical Christmas Album Ever
3:0701:09 AM- James Whitbourn
- Of one that is so fair and bright
- Westminster Williamson Voices
- James Jordan, conductor
- Album: Whitbourn: Carolae | Music for Christmas
3:1301:12 AM- Benjamin Britten
- Saint Nicolas, Op. 42: The birth of Nicolas
- Allan Clayton, tenor
- Luke McWatters, treble
- Boys of the Temple Church Choir
- City of London Sinfonia
- Stephen Layton, conductor
- Album: Britten: A Ceremony Of Carols / Layton, Trinity College Choir Cambridge
2:3801:15 AM- John Rutter
- What Sweeter Music?
- Jacqueline Kerrod, harp
- Seraphic Fire
- Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor
- Album: Candlelight Carols | Seraphic Fire | Patrick Dupre Quigley
4:2201:19 AM- Leroy Anderson
- O Sanctissima
- Album: Sleigh Ride & Other Holiday Favorites
1:3801:21 AM- Noel Regney
- Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Mitch Farber, arranger
- The Northern Lights Orchestra
- Petri Juutilainen, conductor
- Album: What if Mozart Wrote White Christmas
4:5101:26 AM- Felix Bernard
- Winter Wonderland
- Ralph Blaine
- George Andrews, arranger
- The Hampton String Quartet
- Album: What if Mozart Wrote Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
4:1901:30 AM- Giovanni Gabrieli
- Canzon in double echo
- Howard Cable, arranger
- Eric Robertson, organ
- Canadian Brass
- Echo Brass
- Album: Echo Glory of Gabrieli
3:3701:34 AM- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Cantata BWV 208: Sheep May Safely Graze
- Eaken Piano Trio, arranger
- John Eaken, violin
- Nancy Baun, cello
- Gloria Whitney, piano
- Eaken Piano Trio
- Album: Home for the Holidays
4:2501:39 AM- Leroy Anderson
- Sleigh Ride
- Boston Pops Orchestra
- Arthur Fiedler, conductor
- Album: The Most Fabulous Classical Christmas Album Ever
2:5901:42 AM- Hugh Martin
- Have yourself a merry little Christmas
- Valerie Coleman, arranger
- Imani Winds
- Album: This Christmas
3:1601:45 AM- Traditional
- O come, O come, Emmanuel
- Calmus Ensemble Leipzig
- Album: Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt
3:4201:49 AM- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564: Fugue
- Kent Tritle, organ
- Album: Silent Night: Music for Advent and Christmas
4:5201:54 AM- Traditional German
- O Little One Sweet
- Bach Choir
- Jacques Orchestra
- Sir David Willcocks, conductor
- Album: 100 Best Carols
2:4601:57 AM- Jerry Herman
- We Need A Little Christmas
- Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
- JoAnn Falletta, conductor
- Album: Sounds of the Season
2:5802:00 AM- John Francis Wade
- O come, all ye faithful (Adeste Fideles)
- Vienna Boys Choir
- Album: Merry Christmas from Vienna
2:0502:02 AM- Felix Mendelssohn
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- Charles Wesley
- Salli Terri, arranger
- Roger Wagner, arranger
- Roger Wagner and Salli Terri, arranger
- The Roger Wagner Chorale
- Roger Wagner, conductor
- Album: Joy To The World!
1:4602:03 AM- Johann Sebastian Bach
- In dulci jubilo, BWV 729
- Benjamin Bayl, organ
- Album: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
2:5802:07 AM- 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
3:2702:10 AM- Traditional
- Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly
- The Philadelphia Orchestra
- Eugene Ormandy, conductor
- Album: The Glorious Sound of Christmas
1:4702:12 AM- Rebecca Dale
- Winter
- Mari Samuelsen, violin
- Hakon Samuelsen, cello
- Huw Watkins, celeste
- Voces 8
- Album: Winter
4:5502:17 AM- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- The Nutcracker: Final Waltz and Apotheosis
- Stewart Goodyear, piano
- Album: Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker | Complete Ballet Arranged for Solo Piano
4:5702:22 AM- Traditional
- Christmas Medley (Wassail Song, O Tannenbaum, I Saw Three Ships)
- Boston Pops Orchestra
- Arthur Fiedler Chorus
- Arthur Fiedler, conductor
- Album: A Christmas Festival
5:0802:27 AM- Franz Gruber
- Silent Night
- John Rutter, arranger
- The Cambridge Singers
- The Cambridge Singers Orchestra
- John Rutter, conductor
- Album: Christmas Star | Carols for the Christmas Season
3:0102:30 AM- Adolphe Adam
- O Holy Night/Ave Maria
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Charles Gounod
- Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson, arranger
- Lexi Walker, soprano
- The Piano Guys
- Album: Christmas Together
5:1202:36 AM- Gustav Holst
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- Raymond Johnston, organ
- Worcester Cathedral Choir
- Donald Hunt, conductor
- Album: Christmas Carols
3:3802:39 AM- Vince Guaraldi
- Skating
- Brandon Ridenour, arranger
- Bill Cahn, percussion
- Canadian Brass
- Album: Christmas Time is Here
1:3602:41 AM- John Sheppard
- Verbum caro factum est
- Stile Antico
- Album: Puer natus est
9:0902:50 AM- Benjamin Britten
- Saint Nicolas, Op. 42: His piety and marvellous works
- Choir of King's College, Cambridge
- Britten Sinfonia
- Stephen Cleobury, conductor
- Album: Saint Nicolas
5:0302:55 AM- Lowell Mason
- Joy To The World
- Isaac Watts
- Vienna Boys Choir
- Album: Merry Christmas from Vienna
1:5502:57 AM- Michael Praetorius
- Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
- Regensburger Domspatzen
- Georg Ratzinger, conductor
- Album: Complete Christmas Celebration
2:3803:00 AM- Traditional
- Un Flambeau, Jeannette, Isabella
- Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano
- The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
- Columbia Symphony Orchestra
- Jerold Ottley, conductor
- Album: Christmas with Marilyn Horne
1:1203:01 AM- John Jacob Niles
- I wonder as I wander
- Niles/Horton, arranger
- Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano
- Kevin Murphy, piano
3:5503:05 AM- Traditional
- Benedixisti Domine; Praeparate corda vestra
- Benedictine Nuns Of Mary Queen Of Apostles
- Album: Advent At Ephesus / Benedictines Of Mary, Queen Of Apostles
3:5303:09 AM- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Der Tag, der ist so Freundreich, BWV 605
- Simon Preston, organ
- Album: Orgelbuchlein BWV 599-644
1:3703:11 AM- John Rutter
- The Colours of Christmas
- The Bach Choir
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- John Rutter, conductor
- Album: John Rutter: The Colors of Christmas
2:5103:14 AM- Healey Willan
- The Three Kings
- Matthew Oltman
- Kevin Baum
- David Alan Marshall
- Chanticleer
- Joseph Jennings, conductor
- Album: Christmas with Chanticleer
3:0703:17 AM- George Frideric Handel
- Messiah: He shall feed His flock like a shepherd
- Lucy Crowe, soprano
- Tim Mead, countertenor
- Le Concert d'Astree
- Emmanuelle Haim, conductor
- Album: Handel: Messiah | Le Concert D'Astree, Haim
5:1803:22 AM- Traditional
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- Carmen Dragon, arranger
- Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
- Carmen Dragon, conductor
- Album: The Music of Christmas
1:4603:24 AM- Johnny Marks
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Barry Gordon, arranger
- The Hampton String Quartet
- Album: What if Mozart Wrote Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
3:4903:28 AM- John Gardner
- Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
- Jeremy S. Bruns, organ
- Joseph Tompkins, percussion
- Peter Wilson, percussion
- St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
- John Scott, conductor
- Album: Christmas on Fifth Avenue
2:3203:30 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
3:1303:34 AM- Anonymous
- All Sons of Adam, Sing Nowell!
- 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
3:0803:37 AM- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- The Nutcracker: Selections
- New York Philharmonic
- Leonard Bernstein, conductor
- Album: The Joy of Christmas with Leonard Bernstein
14:4303:52 AM- Traditional
- Christmas Songs
- Album: A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert
10:5504:03 AM- Traditional
- Weihnacht, wie bist do so schoen
1:4104:05 AM- John Ireland
- The Holy Boy
- Angele Dubeau, violin
- La Pieta
- Angele Dubeau, conductor
- Album: Noel
3:0604:08 AM- Dietrich Buxtehude
- In dulci jubilo, BWV 197
- Nicholas Danby, organ
- Album: The Organ, Buxtehude, Nicholas Danby
2:0604:10 AM- John Rutter
- I wish you Christmas
- The Cambridge Singers
- Farnham Youth Choir
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- John Rutter, conductor
- Album: A Christmas Festival
4:2704:14 AM- Traditional
- Lully lulla, thou little tiny child (Coventry Carol)
- Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
- Album: A Festival of Carols in Brass
1:2104:16 AM- Felix Mendelssohn
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing (in the style of Beethoven)
- Album: A Steinway Christmas Album | Piano Music for the Season
3:3104:19 AM- Carlos Salzedo
- Concert Variations on O Tannenbaum
- Jennifer Hoult, harp
- Album: The Eve of Christmas
3:4204:23 AM- Traditional
- Fum, Fum, Fum
- Robert Shaw and Alice Parker, arranger
- Choral Arts of Chattanooga
- Philip Rice, conductor
- Album: A Christmas Portrait
0:5004:24 AM- Charles Ives
- A Christmas Carol
- Ma Prem Alimo, soprano
- Janet Sullivan, soprano
- William Zukof, countertenor
- Larence Bennet, tenor
- Elliot Levine, baritone
- Albert de Ruiter, bass
2:2904:26 AM- Traditional
- Wexford Carol
- Album: Hallelujah!
3:4704:31 AM- Franz Gruber
- Silent Night
- Album: Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt
7:4704:38 AM- Traditional
- The Shepherd's Cradle Song
- Choir of King's College, Cambridge
- Sir David Willcocks, conductor
- Album: 100 Best Carols
3:3404:42 AM- Traditional
- The Gift
- Album: A Child's Christmas in Bethlehem
2:3804:45 AM- Traditional
- Suite of Carols
- St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
- John Scott, conductor
- Album: Christmas on Fifth Avenue
5:0204:50 AM- Anonymous
- Alma redemptoris Mater
- Benedictine Nuns Of Mary Queen Of Apostles
- Album: Advent At Ephesus / Benedictines Of Mary, Queen Of Apostles
1:5304:52 AM- Benjamin Britten
- A Boy Was Born, Op. 3
- Elora Festival Singers
- Noel Edison, conductor
- Album: The Wonder of Christmas
2:0504:54 AM- Traditional
- Ding Dong Merrily on High
- The Baltimore Consort
- Album: Bright Day Star: Music for the Yuletide Season
1:4504:55 AM- Henry John Gauntlett
- Once in Royal David's City
- A. H. Mann & James O'Donnell, arranger
- John Birch, organ
- The Bach Choir
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- John Rutter, conductor
- Album: John Rutter: The Colors of Christmas
3:5805:00 AM- Mel Torme
- The Christmas Song
- George Andrews, arranger
- The Northern Lights Orchestra
- Petri Juutilainen, conductor
- Album: What if Mozart Wrote White Christmas
4:1205:04 AM- John Francis Wade
- O come, all ye faithful (Adeste Fideles)
- David Willcocks, arranger
- Lorenz Hahnheiser, percussion
- Hanover Boys' Choir
- London Brass
- Jorg Breiding, conductor
- Album: Knabenchor Hannover | Christmas Carols
4:2205:08 AM- Samuel Scheidt
- Battle Suite: Canzon bergamasque
- Eastman Brass Quintet
- Album: Renaissance Brass Music
4:3305:13 AM- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Fantasia on "Greensleeves"
- William Bennett, flute
- Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
- Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
- Album: Vaughan Williams | ASMIF / Marriner
4:1505:17 AM- Leroy Anderson
- Sleigh Ride
- Richard Hayman Orchestra
- Richard Hayman, conductor
- Album: WQXR For the Holidays
3:0505:20 AM- Michael Praetorius
- Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
- David Miller, theorbo
- Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
- The Dmitri Ensemble
- Graham Ross, conductor
- Album: Lux de caelo | Christmas
1:4605:22 AM- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- The Nutcracker: Character Dances
- Stewart Goodyear, arranger
- Stewart Goodyear, piano
- Album: Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker | Complete Ballet Arranged for Solo Piano
11:1005:33 AM- Traditional
- Christmas Suite
- Choral Arts of Chattanooga
- Philip Rice, conductor
- Album: A Christmas Portrait
4:2005:38 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
4:5805:43 AM- Traditional
- Past Three O'Clock
- Album: Caroling at Ephesus
2:2605:45 AM- Franz Gruber
- Noch' tikha, noch svyata (Silent Night)
- Album: Russian Christmas
3:1205:49 AM- Traditional
- Divinum Mysterium; Christ Child's Lullaby
- Ensemble Galilei
- Album: Surrounded by Angels | A Christmas Celebration with Ensemble Galilei
3:3305:52 AM- Benjamin Britten
- A Hymn to the Virgin
- Choir of Westminster Abbey
- Martin Neary, conductor
- Album: A Ceremony of Carols
3:4705:56 AM- John Rutter
- Rejoice and be merry
- The Cambridge Singers
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- John Rutter, conductor
- Album: A Christmas Festival
2:3605:59 AM- Traditional
- Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly
- Roger Wagner and Salli Terri, arranger
- The Roger Wagner Chorale
- Roger Wagner, conductor
- Album: Joy To The World!
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