Te Deum from the Great Service - William Byrd

The Great Service is a dramatic work in which Byrd makes full use of any available contrasts, setting high voice against low, soloists against choir, and the two sides of choir - the decani and cantoris - against each other (as in Short Services), and sometimes even getting them to represent different characters. In the Te Deum, for example, the decani play the Apostles while the cantoris sing as the martyrs.
The Great Service is one of the pinnacles of Byrd's ever-exquisite craftsmanship. A Great Service was one of the three styles of canticle setting which developed in the reign of Elizabeth I, thankfully a monarch who liked music and was glad to see it reinstated in church services. Great Services had a number of soloists and were large-scale and musically complex, as opposed to the homophonic "short service" and the "verse service" with "verse" (solo) singers.

[@willawes]

A masterpiece in interpreting the words and the language, with sublime cumulative effect

[@judymlowder]

So magnifying and majestic. Just beautiful.

[@treblechoir99]

Magnificent Byrd, with The Tallis. Thank you for this one.

[@handyman109]

A magnificent rendition of a masterfully written piece.

[@loupblanc26]

Magnificent! Thanks your splendid video. What's this choir?

[@jsc5492]

> a monarch who liked music and was glad to see it reinstated in church services
Are you trying to say that her predecessors (notably Bloody Mary) did not like music or had suppressed it from services? That would hardly be historically accurate!

[@Francis1930]

@loupblanc26 The magnificent Tallis Scholars