Travel through the European church music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in three concerts. In 1696, Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed a mass using popular French Christmas melodies of the time. Some twenty years later, a red-haired priest named Vivaldi put the text of 'Gloria in Excelsis Deo' to music in the style of the late Italian baroque. Our journey ends in 1791 with Viennese Classicism, as Mozart pens the last notes of his eerily beautiful Requiem.