Visits to the Midwest by William Christie’s splendid Paris-based period instruments and vocal group, Les Arts Florissants, have been increasingly rare in recent seasons. Even more rare are live ...

A rare staging of Gustave Charpentier's Louise, a 'novel in music' that was once hugely popular, having received nearly 100 ...

Le Nain's Nativity, the kind of painting that might have complemented Charpentier's music in the Hotel de Guise The sunrise aspect is fascinating, too, especially as text (the sun illumines only half ...

If the problem of organizing music for your Christmas party seems daunting, take a page from the book of the 17th century Duchesse de Guise and commission your own — or simply throw the products of ...

Musica Antiqua Köln announces Charpentier’s bicentenary this year with a glorious cleanly blown, audience-hushing Fanfare on two trumpets and a priestly Triumphal March on this celebratory disc of ...

Lucie Skeaping explores music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, who wrote arguably some of the most engaging Christmas music of the French baroque, including the Messe de Minuit. Show more Lucie Skeaping's ...

The young Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto sprang into our consciousnesses 10 years ago with a riveting disc of the Violin Concerto by his fellow countryman, Sibelius (ODE 878-2). With subsequent ...