With some wonderfully emotive French music for Christmastide we turn to Marc-Antoine Charpentier for our annual seasonal concerts.

Shepherds and angels tell us the story of Nativity in two expressive sacred works about the arrival of baby Jesus.  

This is a rare chance to hear us perform festive music from 17th-century France, which is seldom performed in the UK. 

Find out more about the music in this Q&A with  our artistic advisor James Halliday.


To book tickets:

Sat 7 Dec, 4.30pm
Early Music Christmas Festival in York
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Mon 9 Dec, 7.30pm
St John's Smith Square
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Ahead of our December concerts at the Christmas Festival of the National Centre for Early Music in York and at St John's Smith Square in London, we had a chat with James Halliday to take us through the specific seasonal repertoire by Marc-Antoine Charpentier we'll be performing:

"If you’re on a quest for the ever more elusive ‘meaning of Christmas’, then this concert is for you."

Read the Q&A with James here