The other day: grey, indigo, and blues this morning. It is the Wednesday in the second week of Advent (Introibo, DO), a feria, although the second day in the Octave of the Immaculate Conception in places where that is kept (Introibo; it is the Mass of the feast itself). I think Saint-Eugène is not livestreaming their evening Mass today alas.
Post Sextam. At Saint-Eugène they streamed the Mass Populus Sion at noon, I guess.
In order to keep to the Advent lessons and the ferial psalmody, I used the Office for Matins and Lauds as it existed before 1910 (i.e. because after 1911 the feast of the Immaculate Conception takes precedence before the Advent feriae), adding a commemoration of the Octave at Lauds. In the same way, I used the earlier Office for Prime in order to have the preces, which wouldn't happen in the Octave; but the third nocturne lessons from the Octave day will re-pay reading-- Saint Sophronius of Jerusalem, patriarch there in the first half of the 7th century. What did the Archangel Gabriel say when he appeared to Mary? Ave, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, which begins in the Greek, Χαιρε, that is, 'rejoice'. Why such joy, he asks?
... Noverat, ex divina hujus mysterii cognitione mundum lumine collustrari; noverat, erroris disjici caliginem; noverat, retundi mortis aculeum; noverat, vim corruptionis infringi; noverat, inferno victoriam auferri; noverat, salutem perdito affulgere homini, qui horum malorum jugo jamdiu premebatur, ex quo scilicet a paradisi deliciis expulsus, et a beato illo domicilio ejectus fuerat....
... He knew well by the divine light of this mystery that his message was a message of light to a darkened world. He knew well that it proclaimed the end of the shadows and darkness of error. He knew well that it blunted the sting of death. He knew well that it broke the power of corruption. He knew well that it brought victory over hell. He knew well that it told of salvation to all the fallen race of man, groaning under that yoke of malediction which fell on them when they were thrust out of Eden, and banished from that happy home....
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The Neumz 'digital Advent calendar' video for today (and other days, evidently) features Dom Jacques-Marie Guilmard of the Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes discussing Saint Gregory and the chant that is called by his name.
At 0900 Klassikaraadio is broadcasting, livestreaming, a concert from Tallinn featuring the countertenor Andreas Scholl and the Nordic Symphony Orchestra in a program of Pärt, Handel, and Purcell. I had the vague impression that Andreas Scholl was a player in pop music circles, tsk; he is making perfectly sane and indeed praiseworthy remarks in his interview with the Klassikaraadio lady.
Scholl's Pärt's Vater unser was lovely, and he sang the Bach arias Jesus bleibet meine Freude and Bist du bei mir as encores.
And at 1130, there is a recital at Wigmore Hall by the pianist Paul Lewis who will perform Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, preceded by Haydn's Sonata in C minor H XVI 20. Beyond these, I think today is a Handel's opera day, although which one I haven't decided. Rodrigo, perhaps, a recording from Göttingen from last year.
Post Sextam. I forgot that this was happening, ahem, so am listening to the recording at YouTube, but the Capella Cracoviensis sang six Bach motets-- BWV 225-230-- at their concert today in Gdansk (I don't seem to be able to embed the video) in the context of the Actus Humanus Festival 2020.
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LDVM
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