A French Baroque Christmas with Ensemble Correspondances

Ensemble Correspondances, directed by Sébastien Daucé, performs Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Messe de minuit pour Noël, with Caroline Weynants, soprano, Lucile Richardot, alto, Richard Pittsinger, tenor, and Lysandre Châlon, bass. Written for the holy night of Christmas and based on traditional French Noëls, Charpentier’s Midnight Mass combines the joy of familiar melodies with extraordinary craftsmanship. The simplicity of the original songs gives the Mass a cheerful character and a transparency that is anything but shallow.