A French Baroque Christmas
Concerts
December 12, 2024 - 7:30 PM (lecture at 6:30 PM)
Church of St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street, NY NY 10014
A French Baroque Christmas
Music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier
The Choir of St. Luke in the Fields with Baroque in the Fields period instrument ensemble
Motets by the sixteenth century nun Raphaella Aleotti
G.P. da Palestrina – Missa Confitebor tibi (á8)
The French noël represents a tradition of popular Christmas celebration and rich source of melodies that became a preoccupation of French composers. The concert will feature Charpentier’s delightful Messe de Minuit (‘Midnight Mass’), written perhaps for Christmas 1694, based on ten of these popular carol melodies. The program will include In Nativitatem Domini, H.416, Charpentier’s most substantial dramatic oratorio for the Christmas season.