The elegant dance movements comprising Marc Antoine Charpentier's Noëls enchant throughout the year. Dagmar Scherschmidt has combined the "Noëls sur les instruments", the "Noëls pour les instruments" as well as the "Agnus Dei" from the "Messe de Minuit" and arranged them for recorder quartet SATB, recorder octet SATB TBGbSb, or recorder orchestra, each with harpsichord ad libitum.