More than any other religious celebration, Christmas — with its exhilarating festive spirit — had captured an unparalleled popular fervor. Its simple, pastoral songs, carried by oboes, trouvères, and troubadours, slipped easily into humble homes, imprinted themselves on memory, and were passed down from generation to generation.
In 1690, Marc-Antoine Charpentier drew from this fascinating popular repertoire to compose his famous Messe de MinuitH.9.

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Thus, richly imbued with these emblematic themes of the Holy Nativity — along with many other surprises — and carried by the children’s voices of the Marguerite Louise choir school, this Midnight Mass intoxicates listeners with its gentle Christmas enchantment and sends us off humming.