Below are highlights from the schedules of the area's two major classical radio outlets, KBYU-FM (89.1) and KUER-FM (90.1), for Dec. 21-27, plus selected television listings.

SUNDAY

The Baltimore Consort, Christmas music of early Europe and the United States, 10 a.m. (KBYU-FM).

Palestrina: Missa "Hodie Christus Natus Est" and Wolf: "Christnacht" 11 a.m. (KUER-FM).

1997 Concordia College Christmas Concert, 6 p.m. (KBYU-Ch. 11).

Christmas in Rome: from the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, 7 p.m. (KBYU-Ch. 11).

Carreras Cole Domingo: A Celebration of Christmas Live from Vienna," 8 p.m. (KUED-Ch. 7).

Handel's Messiah recorded at Westminster Abbey, 9 p.m. (KBYU-Ch. 11).

MONDAY

The Soul of Christmas: A Celtic Music Celebration with Thomas Moore, 1 a.m. (KUED-Ch. 7).

Salt Lake Children's Choir from Dec. 6 Cathedral of the Madeleine concert 11 a.m. (KUER-FM).

Cincinnati Pops with Erich Kunzel and Mel Torme, 9 p.m. (KUED-Ch. 7).

Golden Age Christmas, great singers of the past, 9 p.m. (KBYU-FM).

TUESDAY

Vivaldi Candlelight Concert from St. Mark's Cathedral performance 9 a.m. (KUER-FM).

The Hanukkah Story, the Western Wind vocal ensemble performs traditional Jewish songs for Hanukkah, narrator Theodore Bikel, 7 p.m. (KBYU-FM).

A Star in the East, Anonymous 4, medieval

Hungarian Christmas music, 8 p.m. (KBYU-FM).

WEDNESDAY

Pez: Concerto pastorale; Rimsky-Korsakov: "Christmas Eve" Suite; Bach; "Christmas Eve," 9 a.m. (KUER-FM).

Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy, 7 p.m. (KUED-Ch. 7).

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, 7 p.m. (KBYU-FM).

Traditions of Christmas, nativity scenes and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, 8 p.m. (KBYU-Ch. 11).

Denyce Graves: A Cathedral Christmas, 8 p.m. (KUED-Ch. 7).

A Kurt Bestor Christmas Special, 9 p.m.

THURSDAY

Praetorius: Lutheran Mass for Christmas Morning; Vaughn Williams: "Hodie" and Dylan Thomas reading his "A Child's Christmas in Wales," 9 a.m. (KUER-FM).

Carols from Atlanta: the 70th Anniversary Morehouse, 12 noon, (KBYU-Ch. 11).

LDS First Presidency Christmas Fireside, 2:30 p.m. (KBYU-Ch. 11).

Carols from Kings, from the Chapel of King's College in Cambridge, England, Anglican Christmas service, 7 p.m. (KUED-Ch. 7).

Christmas with the Philadelphia Singers, 8 p.m. (KBYU-FM).

FRIDAY

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The Christmas Revels, a survey of cheerful holiday traditions from around the world, 7 p.m. (KBYU-FM).

SATURDAY

Hallelujah, Take One, early recordings of Handel's Messiah, 8 a.m. (KBYU-FM).

Schickele Mix - Keeping Christmas, 1 p.m. (KUER-FM).

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