Bach’s Christmas Oratorio shines in a chamber-scaled performance by the Kammerorchester Basel, the Deutscher Kammerchor and outstanding soloists. Filmed in Basel’s Martinskirche, it captures both the intimacy and exhilaration of this seasonal masterpiece. Now streaming at stage.plus/Christmas. | STAGE

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