A French Christmas Night

Music From the Parisian Chapels of the 17th Century

Thu 18.12.2025 klo 18
Järvenpää-talo, Järvenpää
Sat 20.12.2025 klo 15
Askola Church, Askola
AUF cooperation
Sun 21.12.2025 klo 18
House of Nobility, Helsinki
The Residency Series at the House of Nobility
fi / en / sv

PROGRAM

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
A la venue de Noël (Noëls sur les instruments, H. 534)

Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (c. 1632–1714)
Ote Graduale romanum -kokoelmasta (1696)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
Venite ad me (H. 344)

Vous qui désirez sans fin (Noëls pour les instruments, H. 531)

Transfige, dulcissime Jesu (H. 251)

Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772)
Noël en musette (Nouveau livre de Noëls pour l’Orgue et le Clavecin, 1757, sov. Marianna Henriksson)

 

VÄLIAIKA
 

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
Messe de minuit pour Noël (H. 9)

Kyrie
  Joseph est bien marié
  Or nous dites Marie
  Une jeune pucelle

  (Materiaalia Charpentier’n kokoelmasta Noëls sur les instruments, H. 534, ja Pierre Dandrieun (1664–1733) urkukappaleesta Joseph est bien marié)

Gloria
  Les bourgeois de Chastre
  Ou s’en vont ces guays bergers


Credo
  Vous qui desirez sans fin
  Voicy le jour solemnel de noël
  A la venue de noël


Offertoire

Sanctus

Agnus Dei

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Marianna Henriksson and Marc Mauillon, programme planning

FiBO continues the popular Christmas concert series with a French programme. Marc Mauillon is the guest expert on French music. The singer, who performs as both baritone and tenor, has worked  with renowned conductors specialising in French repertoire, including William Christie, Emmanuelle Haïm, and Marc Minkowski. Mauillon has also taught medieval singing at the University of Paris. The centrepiece of the Christmas programme is Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Messe de minuit pour Noël (1694), the Midnight Mass for Christmas.

Rather than brilliant trumpets, Charpentier’s mass features the nocturnal delicacy of flutes and viols. Multi-voiced choirs, solo passages for small ensembles, and delightful instrumental numbers display the composer’s impeccable rhetorical sensibility. Melodies borrowed from well-known Christmas carols bring us to the very heart of the French Christmas. Parody masses, or contrafacta – setting new texts to familiar music – had a centuries-old tradition behind them.

Charpentier (1643–1704) once said that for him, music had become “a small honour but a heavy burden”. Though one of the key French Baroque composers, he never received an official post at the royal court. However, his work as musical director at Paris’ Jesuit church of Saint-Louis left a large body of sacred music for posterity. Charpentier also gained greater recognition as an opera composer after Jean-Baptiste Lully’s royal monopoly came to an end.

Charpentier’s motets invite us to forget the burdens of daily life and come together at a shared table. A selection of his instrumental Christmas music, along with sung Gregorian chants, gives shape to the flow of the concert programme.

Duration: 1 h 45 min (incl. intermission)

The Järvenpää concert is organized in co-operation between FiBO, Järvenpää's cultural and event services and Järvenpää parish.

FiBO's artistic planner Marianna Henriksson introduces the concert at the House of Nobility on 21 December from 5 pm to 5.30 pm. 

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PERFORMERS

Marc Mauillon taille


Olivia Moss dessus

Katariina Heikkilä haute-contre

Teppo Lampela haute-contre


Juhana Kotilainen basse-taille

Jussi Lehtipuu basse-taille

Marianna Henriksson harpsichord, organ


CONCERT INFO

Kiitos:
Anna ja Signe von Bonsdorffin sukurahasto
Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö
Helsingin kaupunki

Kiitos myös:
Peter Young / Canberra Baroque

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UPCOMING CONCERTS

Dixit Dominus and Te Deum

A Celebreation of Choral Music

Händel–Charpentier–Vivaldi

CONTACT INFORMATION

FINNISH BAROQUE ORCHESTRA (FiBO)

Kylätie 27 A 3
00320 Helsinki

p. 040 821 0651
toimisto@fibo.fi

TICKET INQUIRIES
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