This article includes a list of commercial recordings of the Christmas Oratorio (German: „Weihnachtsoratorium“), BWV 248, by Johann Sebastian Bach.
The early recordings use larger forces than Bach would have used when the work was premiered with the Thomanerchor in Leipzig in the years 1734/35.
[1] Since the 1970s many recordings of the Christmas Oratorio have used period instruments with a view to recreating the sounds envisaged by Bach.
[2] Choirs with one voice per part (OVPP), used in some historically informed performances of Bach's music, are rarely recorded in this work.
The recordings listed in the table below include more than one version by certain conductors (John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Helmuth Rilling).