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Thursday, December 4, 2025 – 7:30 pm
Church of Saint-Léon de Westmount
4311 de Maisonneuve Blvd West,
Westmount, H3Z 1L1
Bus : 104 – stop Sherbrooke / Clarke or 24 – stop Sherbrooke / Kitchener
Métro : Atwater
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Also presented as special performances in:
Chicoutimi (11/28/2025)
Trois-Rivières (11/29/2025)
Ottawa (12/6/2025)
Quebec City (12/14/2025)
Come celebrate the magic of Christmas with some of the most beautiful traditional German songs, choral masterpieces by J. S. Bach, Jacobus Handl and Michael Praetorius, and such holiday classics as Silent Night and O Christmas Tree. Timeless melodies, shimmering polyphonies, and well-known carols
are combined in a joyful experience in which the audience is invited to sing along with the choir, joining voices to rekindle the warm and festive atmosphere of Christmases past.
With the participation of Le Consort Laurentien.
Concert Partners
Heinrich Bach (1615-1692)
Sonata à 5 (Partiturbuch Ludwig, 1662)
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
Lieber Herr Gott, wekke uns auf (Hofmeister, Dresde, 1822)
Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Cologne, 1599)
Giovanni Picchi (1571-1643)
Canzon duodecima à 4 (Canzoni da sonar con ogni sorte d’istromenti, Venise, 1625)
Melchior Franck (1579-1639) / Ernst Anschütz (1780-1861)
O Tannenbaum / Mon beau sapin
Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
In dulci jubilo (Musae Sioniae, 1607)
Bartholomäus Gesius (v. 1562-1613) / Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
In dulci jubilo (Musicalisches Gesang-Buch, 1723)
Antonio Bertali (1605-1669)
Sonata 5 à 5 (Partiturbuch Ludwig, 1662)
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Deutsches Magnificat : Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, SWV 494 (Dresde, 1671)
PAUSE
Johann Vierdanck (1605-1646)
Sonate à 4 pour 2 violons, deux hautbois et continuo (Ander Theil darinnen … Capricci, Canzoni und Sonaten, Rostock, 1641)
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Jauchzet dem Herrn, P. 213
Jacobus Handl (1550-1591)
Resonet in laudibus, HK. 75 (Gallus, Opus musicum, tome 1, 1586)
Heinrich Bach
Sonata à 5 (Partiturbuch Ludwig, 1662)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
O Jesulein Süss, BWV 493 (Musicalisches Gesang-Buch, 1734)
Conrad Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863)
Stille Nacht / Douce nuit (Salzbourg, 1818)
Anonyme
Als ich bei meinen Schafen wacht
Antonio Bertali
Sonata 2 à 5 (Partiturbuch Ludwig, 1662)
Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629)
Angelus ad pastores ait (Musarum Sioniar: Motectae et Psalmi Latini, Nuremberg, 1607)
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Hodie Christus natus est, SWV 456 (Dresde, 1660)
Rebecca Dowd, Marie Magistry, Len Torrie, sopranos
Isabella Cuminato, Josée Lalonde, Kristen De Marchi, altos
Nathan LeLièvre, Michiel Schrey, Arthur Tanguay-Labrosse, tenors
Pierre-Étienne Bergeron, John Giffen, Kevin Marimbu, bass
Le Consort laurentien
Noemy Gagnon-Lafrenais, baroque violin
Étienne Asselin, cornetto
Maximilien Brisson, baroque trombone
Adam Dillon, baroque trombone
Mari-Lou Plante, baroque trombone
Christophe Gauthier, positive organ
Andrew McAnerney, conductor