| It's the Christmas Eve edition of | PIANO hosted by Larry Kelp | and we start with Mendelssohn sung by | Ella Fitzgerald |
| Ella Fitzgerald | Mendelssohn: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing | Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas | Capitol |
| Robin Petrie, hammered dulcimer | In dulci jubilo / shepherd's cradle song / Canzone d'i Zampognari | A Victorian Noel | Gourd Music |
| Patrick Ball, harp | Dona Nobis | The Christmas Rose | Fortuna |
| Steve Baughman, guitar | Johan Abraham PeteSchulz 1747-1800): Ihr Kinderlein Kommet | Old World Christmas | Solid Air |
| Steve Baughman, guitar | Medley: The FIrst Geat Joy of Mary / Shepherds Shake of Your Drowsy Sleep / Glouceter Wassail | Old World Christmas | Solid Air |
| Julian Lloyd Webber, cello / James Judd, conductor | Bach: Air on a G String (Suite No 3 in D Maj BWV 1068) | For Coffee Lovers | Decca |
| Kim Kashkashian, viola/ Sarah Rothenberg, piano, celeste; Steven Schick, perc./ Robert Simpson, conductor; Houston Chamber Choir | Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel | Rothko Chapel | ECM New Series |
| Olivier Cave, piano | J.S. Bach: Aria Variata (alla maniera Italiana BWV 989) | Johann Sebastian Bach | Aeon |
| Gustav Leonhardt, kbd/conductor: Tolzer Knabenhor Baroqu Orchestra | J.S. Bach Cantata No. 34 | J.S. Bach Cantatas 27, 34 & 41 | Sony Classical (Europe) |
| Sarah Cahill, piano | Henry Cowell: Slow Jig / The Fairy Answer | New Music: Piano Compositions by Henry Cowell | New Albion Records |
| Alan Feinberg, piano | Gibbons: Fantasia | Basically Bull: Keyboard works of John Bull and others | Steinway & Sons |
| Marita Viitasalo, piano | Kyllikki, Op. 41 (Three lyric pieces for piano) | Sibelius Piano Works | Finlandia Records |
| Angela Hewitt, piano | D. Scarlatti: Sonata in F minor (Kk481) | Domenico Scarlatti Sonatas | Hyperion |
| Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Bobby McFerrin, voice | Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee | Hush | Sony Masterworks |
| Kirsten Flagstad, soprano; | attributed to Handel: Lied: Dank, sei dir, Herr | Kirsten Flagstad | Testament |
| Anna Boser Laurel North, harp duo | "Love's Comfort" and "Lmento Appureno" | live on "Sing Out" June 15, 2016 | engineered by Tony Ferro |
| Sean Smith, guitar | "The First Noel," "Good King Wenceslas" | Christmas | Tompkins Square |
| Jeff LaDeur, piano | Sahba Aminikia (Iran-born composer): Lullaby | unissued | courtesy Sahba Aminikia |
| Stephen Hough, piano | L'isle joyeuse | Debussy | Hyperion |
| Nobuko Imai, viola; Mie Miki, accordion | John Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae | Antiquities | BIS |
| Women's Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta, conductor | Fanny Mendelssohn: Ouverture | The Women's Philharmonic | Koch Internationial Classics |
| Kirsten Flagstad, soprano | Handel: I Know that My Redeemer Liveth (from The Messiah) | Kirsten Flagstad | Testament |
| Bay Brass | John T. Williams: Sound the Bells! | Sound the Bells! | Harmonia Mundi |
