Euroradio Christmas Music Day

Every year, the Euroradio Christmas Music Day is eagerly awaited by listeners throughout Europe and beyond. On the Sunday before Christmas, EBU radio organizations contribute live or deferred concerts of music focused on the theme of Christmas. It has been one of the EBU’s most popular offerings ever since it first aired in 1995.

One of the keys to the Day’s appeal resides in its closeness, not only to radio listeners but also to the live audiences at the concert venues, who may enjoy traditional ceremonies or even be asked to sing along with the performers. The potential repertory is vast, ranging from traditional carols to Baroque sacred music and contemporary a cappella works.

2025 Edition

Our most eagerly anticipated shared broadcast event, the Euroradio Christmas Music Day, will take place this year on 14 December 2025. Once again, the day unites listeners from all over Europe, just before Christmas, to share in a marathon of concert broadcasts from country to country, every hour, on the hour. This year’s edition will feature 14 concerts from 12 countries including a special 100-year celebration of the Swedish Radio Choir with Bach’s Christmas Oratorio from Stockholm, and the Ukrainian Radio Choir join us for traditional carols from Kyiv. Heading to warmer climates, we’re delighted to join Madrid for a live concert at 11:00 UTC with music from the Iberian Renaissance, and at 13:00 UTC, we’ll head to Helsinki to hear from early and folk music specialists Ensemble Gamut! live from Kallio Church. Benjamin Appl sings traditional early Christmas music from Munich and the BBC Singers highlight the astounding contribution of women composers to the Christmas music canon. Ēriks Ešenvalds brings the day to a close with a new version of his glorious Zurich Mass from Riga Cathedral, with coloratura soprano Annija Kristiāna Ādamsone, one of this year’s selected Euroradio Top Young Performers.

This edition has been curated by Jonathan Manners, Director of the BBC Singers.

The offer is available in MUS under the reference EURO/2025-2026/N/001-014.

The Euroradio Christmas Music Day would not be possible without the longstanding technical support of BBC Radio 3.

List of concerts

Christmas with the Danish National Vocal Ensemble and conductor Marcus Creed, from Copenhagen
Danish National Vocal Ensemble
Marcus Creed, conductor
Recorded on 5 December 2025
Danish Radio

Italian Baroque at Christmas time with the Gabetta Consort, from Vienna
Gábor Boldoczki, trumpet, flugelhorn
Sergei Nakariakov, trumpet, flugelhorn
Gabetta Consort
Andrés Gabetta, violin, direction
Recorded on 8 December 2025
ORF (Austria)

Christmas classics and Slovak folk tunes with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Children's Choruses, from Bratislava
Pavol Breslik, tenor
Girls’ and Childrens’ Choir of Slovak Radio
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Adrián Kokoš, conductor
Recorded on 11 December 2025
STVR (Slovakia)

Iberian Jubilate with Cantoría vocal ensemble, from Madrid
Cantoría
Live on 14 December 2025
RTVE (Spain)

Christmas Carols with the Hannover Girls Choir and NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, from Hanover
Hanover Girls' Choir
NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Andreas Felber, conductor
Recorded on 12 December 2025
NDR (Germany)

Ensemble Gamut! play traditional Christmas tunes, from Helsinki
Ensemble Gamut!
Live on 15 December 2024
Yle (Finland)

Benjamin Appl sings Christmas classics with the Regensburger Domspatzen, from Munich
Regensburger Domspatzen
Munich Radio Orchestra
Oscar Jockel, conductor
Recorded on 10 December 2025
BR (Munich, Germany)

Traditional carols and Saint-Saëns's Christmas Oratorio with the Platon Maiboroda Academic Choir of Ukrainian Radio, from Kyiv
Platon Maiboroda Academic Choir of Ukrainian Radio
Yulia Tkach, conductor
Recorded early December 2025
Suspilne (Ukraine)

Slovene Christmas with the Glasbena Matica Ljubljana Chamber Choir, from Ljubljana
Glasbena Matica Ljubljana Chamber Choir
Sebastjan Vrhovnik, conductor
RTVSLO (Slovenia)

The RIAS Chamber Chorus sing Britten and Poulenc, from Berlin
Anna Viechtl, harp
Marcel Andreas Ober, organ
RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin
Justin Doyle, conductor
Recorded on 5 December 2025
Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Berlin, Germany)

Swedish Radio Choir at 100: Bach's Christmas Oratorio, part 1-3, from Stockholm
Karin Dahlberg, soprano
Dorothee Bienert, mezzo-soprano
Josh Lovell, tenor
David Risberg, bass
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir
Kaspars Putniņš, conductor
Recorded on 12-13 December 2025
Swedish Radio

Voicu Enăchescu Chamber Choir sing traditional music, from Bucharest
Flavian Chitic, piano
Voicu Enăchescu Chamber Choir
Andrei Stănculescu, conductor
Recorded on 10 December 2025
Radio Romania

The O Antiphons with the BBC Singers, from London
BBC Singers
Recorded Autumn 2025
BBC (United Kingdom)

Ēriks Ešenvalds's Zurich Mass with soprano Annija Kristiāna Ādamsone and the Sōla Choir, from Riga
Annija Kristiāna Ādamsone, soprano
Aigars Raumanis, saxophone
Aigars Reinis, organ
Sōla Choir
Kaspars Adamsons, conductor
Recorded on 13 December 2025
Latvian Radio

Christmas Favourites from Around the World

EBU Music has gathered a playlist of most-loved winter pieces from around Europe, for broadcast in the weeks leading up to/during Euroradio Christmas Music Day: a unique collection of beloved seasonal music selected by 27 EBU radio organizations. See in MUS Part I and Part II.