what do they put, musically, on the radio over there pre Xmas?
Here, there is a lot of orchesteral and then, near the holiday there is some choral
To be honest, I didn't really notice: we didn't have a radio with us and we were outdoors a lot, so mostly we heard waves breaking on the beach and beer bottles being opened
@Tipetoo can probably enlighten you, as he lives in Aus
In the UK, Radio 3 (the BBC's classical music station) is broadcasting a series of Christmas concerts from around Europe; here's the programme for the first one, to give you a flavour:
1.05pm LIVE from Kallio Church, Helsinki
Stravinsky: Pastorale for soprano and wind quintet
Trad arr Ahmas: Finnish Christmas songs
Gaston Litaize: Variations on a Christmas song from Anjou
Sibelius: 5 Christmas Songs Op.1 arr for soprano and organ
Trad arr Ahmas: Finnish Christmas songs
Jan Lehtola (organ)
Zagros Wind Quintet
2.00pm from St Ulrich's Church, Vienna
Sebastian Taschner: Hirten, wacht auf! (Premiere)
Michael J Richter: Leise dahin (Premiere)
Marina and Elena Hobarth: Punschlied (Premiere)
Elgar: Lux Aeterna
Ola Gjeilo: Serenity (O magnum Mysterium)
James MacMillan: O Radiant Dawn
Trad arr Gjeilo: In the Bleak Midwinter
Trad arr Gjeilo: O Com, o come, Emmanuel
Max Reger: Es kommt ein Schiff geladen
Trad arr Hemedinger: Es bluh'n drei Rosen
Brahms: 'O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf' - Motet, Op 74 No 2
Praetorius arr Sandtrom: Det ar en ros utsprungen
Vienna Chamber Choir
Youth Choir Academy, Vienna
Michael Grohotolsky (conductor)
There's also the traditional Christmas Eve broadcast of Carols from Kings College Cambridge, which they've done for years.