| Wednesday, December 12th |
1-1:30pm |
Chicago Early Music Consort: A Renaissance Christmas |
| Presented by Midsummer's Music in December, 2005, and featuring soprano Stephanie Sheffield, recorder soloist Gary Berkenstock, lutenist Joel Spears and viola da gamba soloist Phillip Serna |
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| Sunday, December 16th |
10am-12pm |
St. Olaf Christmas Festival |
| One of the oldest holiday celebrations in the United States; more than 550 students at the St. Olaf campus in Northfield, Minnesota |
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| Sunday, December 23rd |
12:30pm |
The Master Singer's Christmas Concert |
| Gary R. Schwartzhoff conducts "All This Night My Heart Rejoices," a concert recorded December 8, 2006 |
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| Monday, December 24th |
9 - 11am |
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols |
| Michael Barone hosts the annual live broadcast from King's College in Cambridge, England |
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| Monday, December 24th |
1-2pm |
Welcome Christmas! |
| The annual concert from Phillip Brunelle and VocalEssence. |
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| Tuesday, December 25th |
9-11:45am |
Bach's Christmas Oratorio |
| Karl Richer; conductor, with the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra, soprano Gundula Janowitz, contralto Christa Ludwig, tenor Fritz Wunderlich and bass Franz Crass |
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Tuesday, December 25th |
1-2pm |
The Rose Ensemble: Christmas in Elizabethan England |
| Motets and anthems performed by the Twin Cities- based Rose Ensemble. |
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| Wednesday, December 26th |
9-11am |
Music of the Baroque Christmas Special |
| Peter Van De Graff hosts the annual concert, featuring brass and choral works from the 16th and 17th centuries. |
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| Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 |
10am-12pm |
New Year's Day from Vienna |
| NPR and WGBH's Cathy Fuller take us to the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna for the most popular classical music concert in the world, the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Day concert, conducted this year by Georges Prêtre. |
