Showing that there’s much more to Christmas music than just Mariah, ABC Classic has curated their curated their own festive selection of Christmas Concerts broadcast each day in the lead up to Christmas including the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra‘s performance of Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and a choral celebration with Young Adelaide Voices singing the 2024 Classic Choir commission, The Christmas Card, by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon.
If you miss out the first time, you can catch up later on the ABC Classic website or the ABC Listen App.
Monday 16 December
1pm St Georges Cathedral Consort: Ave Rex — A musical journey of Advent to Christmas featuring the magical Brass Octet from the West Australian Symphony Orchestra
8pm Christmas concert: Hallgrím’s Church Choir and the Brák Baroque Ensemble, from Reykjavík
Tuesday 17 December
1pm Musikkollegium Winterthur’s Christmas Concert: Corelli, Bizet and Beethoven
Wednesday 18 December
1pm A Christmas Concert with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
8pm Christmas Concert: Winter dreams with the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, from Saarbrücken
Thursday 19 December
8pm New Zealand Youth Choir Australian tour, featuring assorted Christmas music alongside other choral favourites, new and old.
Friday 20 December
1pm A Ceremony of Carols: Britten and Gardiner
8pm Simone Young conducts Tchaikovsky’s Ballet Music with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, featuring music from the Nutcracker
Saturday 21 December
1pm Sydney Philharmonia Choirs: Carols at the House from 2023, featuring ABC Classic’s 2023 Classic Choir commission by Elena Kats-Chernin, Summer Together.
6pm Screen Sounds: Christmas movies, old and new
Sunday 22 December
1pm Adelaide Symphony Orchestra performs Handel’s Messiah
Monday 23 December
1pm Young Adelaide Voices perform their annual Christmas Concert, featuring this year’s ABC Classic Choir commission by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, The Christmas Card.
6pm Mindful Music: Finding gratitude and belonging at Christmas with Greta Bradman
8pm Music for the Advent Season with the Swedish Wind Ensemble and Adolf Fredrik Church’s Chamber Choir
Tuesday 24 December
1pm Christmas from Around the World with Abel Selaocoe and the BBC Singers, from London
8pm Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College Cambridge from 2023
Wednesday 25 December, Christmas Day
1pm Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
8pm WDR Radio Orchestra, WDR Chorus and Tom Gaebel present: A Swinging International Christmas from the Philharmonie, Cologne