Christmas Concert

December 15, 7:30 p.m. in the Crypt Church
As is our tradition, a festive Nativity-themed concert. Along with traditional songs that we all love to hear and hum along to are French hymns and carols from different lands.

Concert in collaboration with Saint Joseph’s Oratory/Clavecin en concert

Tickets on sale here: https://lepointdevente.com/billets/fhj230516003?lang=en

Michel-Richard Delalande (1657-1726)
Christmas Where are these gay shepherds going?
Christmas Let your animals graze

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Ave Maria on the First Prelude of Bach’s CBT

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Air “Frohe Hirten” (Merry Shepherd), from the Christmas Oratorio
Anonymous
Provençal Christmases

Anonymous
Christmas At midnight there was a wake-up call
Christmas The divine Child was born

George Frideric Handel (1650-1759)
Air “Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion”, from Messiah

Benjamin Britten (1913-1973)
A Ceremony of Carols (excerpts)

John Francis Wade (1711-1786)
Christmas Carol Adeste Fideles

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
The Swan, from Carnival of the Animals

George Frideric Handel
Air “Ev’ry valley shall be exalted”, from Messiah

Henry VIII (1491-1547)?
Air Greensleeves

Anonymous
Christmas song is love

Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863)
Christmas carol Silent night, holy night

Anonymous
Christmas That shepherds, let us assemble

Adolphe Adam (1803-1856)
Christmas Carol Midnight, Christians

Anonymous
Christmas Angels in our countryside

Louis-Charles Gagnon, tenor
Les Voix d’Elles (choir of 30 young girls)
Mariane Patenaude, director

Grégoire Jeay, flute
Tanya Laperrière, violin
Cameron Crozman, cello
Juliette Duguay, harp
Luc Beauséjour, organ and harpsichord