Christmas features

Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? We use the music (starring Beethoven) to explain

Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Here’s what the soundtrack tells us…

Tanglewood Festival Chorus perform The 12 days of Christmas

QUIZ: Can you name every famous melody hidden in this epic ‘12 Days of Christmas’ medley?

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Philharmonia cellos

Silent Night played by 8 cellists in this candlelit church is exquisitely beautiful

Philharmonia

The solemn origins of ‘The Little Drummer Boy’

A Christmas classic with solemn origins – this is the history of ‘The Little Drummer Boy’

Christmas shoppers stunned as choir bursts into Handel ‘Hallelujah’ Chorus in food court

Christmas shoppers stunned as choir bursts into Handel ‘Hallelujah’ Chorus in food court

Handel

Why do we sing Christmas carols?

Why do we sing Christmas carols?

Christmas on Classic FM: all the festive shows, concerts and celebrations coming up

Christmas on Classic FM: all the festive programmes, concerts and celebrations coming up

santa song

This medieval carol is basically the first song ever written about Santa Claus