CDA68167 - Disc 1 Track 11 - Te Deum in F - Hyperion Records

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Te Deum in F

First line:

We praise Thee, O God

composer

John Ireland (1879-1962)

1907

author of text

Anonymous - liturgical

Book of Common Prayer

Introduction
English

John Ireland, by conviction an Anglo-Catholic, spent over thirty years in the world of church music, twenty-two of them at St Luke’s, Chelsea, a church which enjoyed a healthy musical tradition and which encouraged him to contribute to music for the Anglican liturgy. The Te Deum in F, composed in 1907, reveals Ireland’s indebtedness to the late nineteenth-century diatonic style of Stanford, Charles Wood and Bairstow, all of whom were active contributors to the Anglican repertoire at the time. The structure of Ireland’s canticle for Matins reveals some compelling connections with Stanford’s setting in B flat (a work firmly established in the repertoire at St Luke’s). The choice of tonal departures may be simpler than Stanford’s, but many of the crucial textual demarcations correspond, including the reprise of the tonic key (at ‘Day by day: we magnify Thee’) and the coda material that follows. Ireland’s use of a broad, memorable theme at the opening has much in common with Stanford’s interpretation. However, for the central portion of the work, Ireland elected to couch almost the entire text in a more plangent D minor (in marked contrast to Stanford whose internal ternary structure is based on a strident trumpet fanfare). This predilection for lyrical contrast, stirred in this instance by contemplation of man’s frailty and redemption (‘When Thou tookest upon Thee to deliver man’), could be attributed to Ireland’s more meditative character.

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