12 Classical Holiday Masterpieces
Celebrate the 12 days of Christmas by selecting your favorite classical masterpiece: Up vote to decide!
Celebrate the 12 days of Christmas by selecting your favorite classical masterpiece: Up vote to decide!
Corelli's best-known orchestral work, the Christmas Concerto, captures all the moods of the holiday, from solemn reflection to sprightly celebration.
Orchestral versions of the best music from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name, all taking place on -- you guessed it -- Christmas Eve!
Charpentier's orchestral Christmas works are nothing short of masterpieces.
This monumental choral and orchestral work celebrates the Christmas story in a way that only 17th century liturgical music can.
How should you embrace this masterpiece -- Germany's equivalent of the Messiah -- as six separate cantatas, each on its own, or as a single-setting, three-hour work? (Spoiler alert: we suggest both.)
Of all the December classical masterpieces, this opera about a witch who lures children into the woods might not seem like it fits "the holiday" spirit. (Here's why you should listen anyway.)
Sugar plum fairies, dancing mice, a handsome prince... it's the ballet you know and love with a sound that defines Christmas music today. Fall in love with Tchaikovsky's most famous work again.
Based on piano music by Gioachino Rossini, Ottorino Respighi's charming one-act ballet "La Boutique Fantasque," or "The Magic Toyshop," is festive, fun listening -- from the mysterious opening bars to the slam-bang finish, we dare you not to tap your toes the whole way through!