Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Noëls sur les instruments: Où s'en vont ces gais bergers?

Описание: Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704) – Noëls sur les instruments (Christmas Carols): Où s'en vont ces gais bergers?
Recorded at Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church in Minneapolis
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This was the postlude for this Sunday's Christmas Day worship service at Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, where I am the Director of Music.

Dr. Rachel Haug & Bianca Najera, flutes
Dr. Elizabeth York & Ian Snyder, violins
Jim Bartsch, viola
Daryl Carlson, cello
Dr. Joshua Schwalbach, double bass
Dr. Kristina Rizzotto, harpsichord
Tom Madson, tambourine

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Marc-Antoine Charpentier's noëls and pastorales embody an uncommonly beautiful experience of the Christmas season.

Charpentier was a busy composer in Paris in the time of Louis XIV. His patroness, the influential Mademoiselle Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise (or, more simply, Marie de Guise), introduced him to all the right people in high society. Not only did she hire him to write music for her own household; she also arranged for others to commission him as well. He composed oratorios, operas, masses, theater music, and short pieces that don't fit our pre-conceived categories.

Eventually Charpentier was noticed by King Louis himself, arousing the jealousy of the court composer, Jean-Baptiste Lully. It was a jealousy so strong that Lully proceeded to make it impossible for Charpentier to get a position at court, and difficult for him to even have his music played.

But Charpentier still managed to rise to important posts outside the court, becoming music director at the Jesuit Church of St. Paul and, after the Lully's death, succeeding him as the music director of the magnificent church of Saint-Chapelle.

Charpentier wrote a lot of music for Christmas: oratorios on Christmas themes, pastorales, noëls, and a lovely "Midnight Mass for Christmas."

Noël pour les instruments and Noëls sur les instruments:

Charpentier's charming "Carol for Instruments" (1690) and "Carols on Instruments (1693) are collections of popular carols set in lively arrangements for small groups of instruments at Christmas time.

Cover art: L'Innocence (1893) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). Oil on canvas.

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