Given that Charpentier's Missa Assumpta Est Maria is one of the great settings of the Mass, we know surprisingly little about it, other than that it was first performed at the Sainte Chapelle in Paris ...

Actéon, Charpentier's alarming little "Pastorale en Musique", is something of a mystery. We know it dates from the 1680s, and that Charpentier, an accomplished tenor, composed the title role for ...

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 ...

Conserva me, Domine New College Choir, Oxford Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Composer Edward Higginbottom, Conductor Oxford Baroque Caecilia virgo et martyr, 'Est secretum Valerianae Oxford Baroque Edward ...

The conductor and harpsichordist talks about his new album, a Baroque Christmas In this week's edition of of the Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford is joined by the conductor and ...