Each day on 91Classical, amid the variety of the day’s playlist, we offer a handful of featured selections at set times: 

• Breakfast Baroque gets your day off to a light start.
• Lunchtime Local features composers and performers from right here in the Midstate.
• 5 O’Clock Waltz celebrates the end of the workday.

Evening features take a different tack each night, from music that carries you to a specific spot on the globe to orchestral music first heard in the movie theater.

Here’s what’s coming up this week:

Holiday programming

Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 8 p.m.: All Is Bright. Lynne Warfel hosts an hour of gorgeous, contemplative choral music that tells the traditional Christmas story with songs about angels, the star and the manger scene. Featured artists include Cantus, Chanticleer, Cambridge Singers, Bryn Terfel, Emma Kirkby, Jessye Norman, and a variety of choirs.

Thursday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m.: A Choral Christmas with Stile Antico. Celebrate Christmas with the sound of soaring voices. Stile Antico, the award-winning choir from London, pays a visit to St. Paul’s church on Harvard Square for a concert of radiant sacred music for the Christmas season by the most acclaimed composers of the renaissance. Hear the group’s luminous blend of voices sing the intricately woven music of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd. Hosted by Cathy Fuller of WGBH. Presented by NPR Music.

 

Weekly features for Nov 25-29Colleen Phelps and Kara McLeland91Classical