My favourite Baroque composer, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, set all the O Antiphons to music – beautiful texts containing "the very marrow of Advent" to quote Dom Guéranger – together with the O salutaris hostia (one imagines this was sung at Benediction after Vespers on each of the last days of Advent).
Here is part of a recording thereof; the first of these Greater Antiphons, O Sapientia, begins at 2:37.
Here is part of a recording thereof; the first of these Greater Antiphons, O Sapientia, begins at 2:37.
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