A pre-Christmas feast of Baroque music awaits you this week! We'll hear instrumental Noëls by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, a devotional song by Francesca Caccini, one of Bach's Christmas cantatas, and more, with performances by Les Violons du Roy and the English Baroque Soloists. 

• Francesca Caccini    O che nuovo stupor    Henriette Feith, soprano; David van Ooijen, theorbo
• Ercole Pasquini    Quem vidistis pastores    Cappella Artemisia
• Andreas Hammerschidt    Freude, Freude, Grosse Freude    Vox Luminis, Bart Jacobs, organ
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier    Noels pour les Instruments    Les Violons du Roy
• Johann Sebastian Bach    Christmas Oratorio (Selections)    Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists