Notes & Reviews:
Comprised of the best Canadian musicians of the new generation, Masques is a young Montreal ensemble devoted to the performance of 17th and 18th century vocal and instrumental music. The group received critical praise for its previous recording, 'English Fancy'. This time, artistic director Olivier Fortin and his colleagues put together a delicious Christmas program, featuring soprano Catherine Webster, which encompasses works by Schiassi, de Salazar, Scarlatti, Charpentier, Delalande, as well as traditional Irish and French noels.
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Works Details
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : Noëls pour les instruments, H 534 :: Joseph est bien marié - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 1 min. 50 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: circa 1693
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : Noëls pour les instruments, H 534 :: Or nous dites Marie - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: circa 1693
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : Noëls (3), H 531 - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 5 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: ?1690
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : Noëls pour les instruments, H 534 :: A la venue de Noël - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 1 min. 54 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: circa 1693
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : Noëls (3), H 531 - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 5 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: ?1690
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : Noëls pour les instruments, H 534 :: Une jeule pucelle - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 2 min. 1 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: circa 1693
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine : Noëls pour les instruments, H 534 :: Oú s'en vont ces gais berge - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 1 min. 45 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: circa 1693
Traditional, Christmas : Christmas Day Is Come (Irish, Cty. Wexford), carol - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 5 min. 53 sec.
- Form: Christmas
- Written: 17th Century
Scarlatti, Alessandro : Oh di Betlemme altera povertà, chamber cantata for soprano & strings ("Cantata pastorale per la nati - Performer: Catherine Webster (Soprano)
- Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 18 min. 38 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Schiassi, Gaetano Maria : Sinfonia pastorale per il santissimo natale di nostro Jesu (Christmas Symphony in D major) - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 8 min. 31 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Christmas
Delalande, Michel-Richard : Symphonies des Noëls (23), for orchestra, S. 130 :: 1re Simphonie - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 1 min. 38 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Orchestral
Delalande, Michel-Richard : Symphonies des Noëls (23), for orchestra, S. 130 :: Oú s'en vont ces gais bergers? - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 3 min. sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Orchestral
Delalande, Michel-Richard : Symphonies des Noëls (23), for orchestra, S. 130 :: 2e Simphonie - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 1 min. 21 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Orchestral
Delalande, Michel-Richard : Symphonies des Noëls (23), for orchestra, S. 130 :: Ritournelle - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Orchestral
Delalande, Michel-Richard : Symphonies des Noëls (23), for orchestra, S. 130 :: Une Jeule Pucelle - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 2 min. 20 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Orchestral
Delalande, Michel-Richard : Symphonies des Noëls (23), for orchestra, S. 130 :: 3e Simphonie - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Orchestral
Delalande, Michel-Richard : Symphonies des Noëls (23), for orchestra, S. 130 :: Elle allait au temple - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 1 min. 20 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Orchestral
Traditional, Christmas : Noël nouvelet, carol (French) - Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 3 min. 48 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: 16th Century
Salazar, Antonio de : Tarara qui yo soy Antón, villancico - Performer: Catherine Webster (Soprano)
- Ensemble: Ensemble Masques (Classical)
- Running Time: 3 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque


























