To say we were spoilt for choice in choosing 10 classical recordings from 2025 for your Christmas stocking would be putting it mildly. Despite the endlessly repeated prophecies of the “death of ...

Is it just me, or does it seem like Santa is delivering far fewer classical Christmas albums these days? Decades ago, many of the top opera divas — from Renata Tebaldi to Joan Sutherland — released ...

The Miró Quartet’s Ginastera disc wowed me earlier this year, so I was keen to hear their Christmas album. Hearth doesn’t disappoint, a collection of 15 mostly traditional carols reimagined for string ...

No less than six of the seven compositions collected on Assisi Christmas Cantatas receive their premiere on this recording. Add to this the fact that this music is High Baroque, composed between 1639 ...

The BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers take centre stage in an evening of festive delights recorded live at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, in the heart of the Suffolk countryside. Among the ...

After Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon forced the annual Liturgical Festival of religiously themed classical music to relocate to Jerusalem last year, the event is returning this time ...

Fans of classical Christmas music have plenty to be jolly about during the month of December. From large choral groups and the perennial fare by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to more intimate ...

It’s four days until Christmas. Chances are, you’ve heard a lot of beautiful music. If you’re looking for more of that, you’ve come to the wrong place. Welcome to Jingle Hell, where bad songs are born ...