Noëls sur les Instruments : Work information

Composers
Marc-Antoine Charpentier ( Music, Images,)
Performed by
English Chamber Orchestra, Simon Preston (Conductor)

This work

Work name
Noëls sur les Instruments
Work number
H. 534
Key
n/a
Genre
A
Composed
1690-00-00 02:00:00

This recording

Label
AVC
Producer
Mark Brown
Engineer
Antony Howell
Recording date
1996-07-01 01:00:00

The Composers

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Charpentier left his home in Paris in the 1660s to study with the composer Carissimi in Rome.  He was well schooled in Italian compositional models of the time, which initially gave him something of an outsider status back in France.  An association with the stage began with Molière's troupe, and he wrote incidental music for productions of works such as La Malade Imaginaire.  By the early 1680s he was employed by the Dauphin as musical director and was later granted a pension by Louis XIV who, although frequently associated with Charpentier, never employed him.  In 1698 he was made master of music at the Sainte-Chapelle, which led to him writing his greatest sacred works.

Related composers: Jean-Baptiste Lully

Track listing

  • Les borgeois de Châtre I 1:54 min
  • Joseph est bien marié 1:10 min
  • Or nous dites Marie 2:31 min
  • Laissez paitre vos betes 0:52 min
  • Vous qui desirez sans fin 3:18 min
  • A la venue de Noel 1:09 min
  • O Createur 2:40 min
  • Une jeune pucelle 1:14 min
  • Marche des bergers H. 416-9 1:16 min
  • Les borgeois de Châtre II 1:51 min