O Sapientia

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.

O Sapientia - III

Please follow these links to last year's posts about the first of the Great O-Antiphons, which, as Guéranger asserted, contain the very marrow of the Advent liturgy:

• O Sapientia (the plainchant anthem, with a Baroque Magnificat to match);
• O Sapientia - II (the Latin text with an English translation, plus quotations shewing its derivation from Scripture passages).

Now, I'd best say Vespers...

O Sapientia - II

O Sapientia, quæ ex ore Altissimi prodiisti, attingens a fine usque ad finem, fortiter suaviterque disponens omnia: veni ad docendum nos viam prudentiæ.

O Wisdom, Who from the mouth of the Most High didst come forth, stretching from end to end, strongly and suavely disposing all things: come to teach us the way of prudence.

Sources:

• Ego [Sapientia] ex ore Altissimi prodivi... (Ecclus 24:5a; cf. v.1)

• Attingit ergo a fine usque ad finem fortiter, et disponit omnia suaviter. (Sap 8:1)

• …et docuit eum semitam justitiæ,… et viam prudentiæ ostendit illi? (Is 40:14b,d)
  

O Sapientia

And here's a Baroque Magnificat to pair with it: