Music for the first hours of Christmas this week, as we take in a midnight mass, the Messe de Minuit by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. And from Jakub Jan Ryba, the beloved Czech Christmas Mass, "Hail, Master!"

Show Notes

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe de Minuit, H.9

  • Ensemble Correspondances; Sebastian Dauce, conductor

Jakub Jan Ryba: Czech Christmas Mass, "Hail, Master!"

  • Dagmar Vankatkova, soprano; Pavla Ksicokva, contralto; Vladimir Dolezel, tenor; Vaclav Sibera, bass
  • Josef Ksica, organ
  • Choir and Orchestra of the Czech Madrigalists
  • Frantisek Xaver Thuri, conductor