Programme

Te Deum laudamus

Thomas Tallis (c1505-1585)

Te Deum laudamus

William Byrd (c1543-1623)

Organ solo
Fantasie, MB 46

William Byrd

Te Deum laudamus

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Interval

 

Te Deum laudamus

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Te Deum laudamus

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Organ solo
Psalm Prelude, Op.32 no. 1

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Te Deum laudamus
Collegium Regale

Herbert Howells

Organ solo
Crown Imperial

William Walton (1902-1983)

Te Deum laudamus

William Walton

Opening of Purcell Te Deum

A solemn Te Deum is ordered on all occasions of rejoicing in Christian countries, so that, throughout history, nations opposed in war have used the same hymn to thank God for their alternating victories against one another.

Percy Scholes, (1877-1958) English musicologist, and author of the Oxford Companion to Music.