O Sapientia - Magnificat

O Sapientia - Magnificat 

 St. Francis of Assisi Church, Szendrő, Hungary (?)

This is an interesting performance of a choral setting of the antiphon and canticle, it's interesting how the antiphon seems to be far less familiar to the singers than the Magnificat, which would be sung far more often.  Perhaps it is their relationship to Christmas that makes the "O Antiphons" relatively popular with composers.  Here is a setting by the fairly little known but quite good English Scottish (my mistake) composer, Robert Ramsey.

O Sapientia 

Pomerium (?)

Score

And a setting in German by the popular Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt

O Weisheit

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tönu Kaljuste