Friday, December 7, 2018

Praise him, all ye peoples


A friend introduced me to the voice of Patricia Janečková. While I’m not typically wild about barely pubescent singers being thrust into the concert circuit, her voice just knocked me out.

Janečková is Slovak, not Czech, but she’s German-born, so she still fits in with my Czech-German-French focus this year. And while the “Laudate Dominum” from Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore isn’t an Advent piece—the text is from Psalm 116—it calls upon all nations to praise the Lord for his mercy has been bestowed on us all, and the Lord’s truth endures for all time.


Seems like a good message for our times.



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