✨ Coming very soon ✨ Recorded live at the Southbank Centre last year, our UK premiere performance of James MacMillan’s stunning Christmas Oratorio will be available to stream, download and buy from next Friday! 🙌 Pre-order and hear a preview here: https://smarturl.it/lpochristmasoratorio | London Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras and the English Baroque Soloists in a radiant performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Now available to stream free of charge at stage.plus/Oratorio. | STAGE

LPO Principal Trumpet Paul Beniston introduces the piccolo trumpet, which will be out in force for our performance of Bach's magnificent Christmas Oratorio next Saturday 16 December at Southbank Centre 🎺🎄 http://bit.ly/2jjiWxz | London Philharmonic Orchestra

Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248

Celebrate the season with J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio! In this festive performance from Dresden’s stunning Frauenkirche, Christian Thielemann leads the Staatskapelle Dresden, fulfilling a long-held dream to conduct the beloved work. Stream the full performance and more holiday programming: bit.ly/3Yn1cRv | Carnegie Hall

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is one of the true treasures of the sacred choral repertoire. It was in 1734 in Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church where the Oratorio was first performed and it is in the same church that Gotthold Schwarz, the seventeenth Thomaskantor (St. Thomas Church music director) brings the masterpiece once more to life with his elite boy’s choir, the Thomanerchor Leipzig, and Leipzig’s Gewandhausorchester. Watch them perform the Part I of Bach’s Oratorio, “For the First Day of Christmas