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Posted on March 25, 2019March 16, 2019

“Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariæ” #ChoralMarch, March 25th #Annunciation: Angelus sung by the Daughters of Mary

 

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Posted on March 7, 2019February 22, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 7th, O Sacrum Convivium, Messiaen, sung by Choir of Trinity College Cambridge

Yesterday I posted about a now-lost Naxos sampler CD which included a version of “Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal” I now long to hear. It also included Messiaen’s “O…

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Posted on February 4, 2019

“the unfortunate matter of the suffix -anus”

I am pretty sure I have overshared from John Wright’s “The Naming of the Shrew”but ah sure one more for the road: First, the unfortunate matter of the suffix -anus.…

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Posted on October 12, 2018

“Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio” – plainchant setting of Prayer to St Michael the Archangel from Heiligenkreuz Abbey

  From Heiligenkreuz Abbey via the blog of Fr Edmund Waldstein. Latin text: Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio; contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur: tuque,…

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Posted on August 16, 2018

Review of “Long Live Latin: A Latin Miscellany” -John M Gray, SAU Blog, 14th July 2005

On Bastille Day 2005 this piece appeared on the Social Affairs Unit blog. The only chance, so far, I have had to deploy Frangere dum metuis, franges crystallina, peccant / Securae nimium solicitaeque…

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