William Walton

This new vocal-score edition is being published to mark the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in June 1953. First performed as the new Queen processed out of Westminster Abbey William Walton's Te Deum is at once regal celebratory and restrained and a beacon among English settings. The new vocal score (with keyboard reduction) draws on research for the complete Walton Edition and is compatible with existing orchestral materials on hire.

Off-printed from the complete William Walton Edition this is one of three versions (the others are for SATB unaccompanied) on a text by Phineas Fletcher - 'Drop drop slow tears'. The poignant chromatic harmonies and expressive melodic lines are a remarkably adventurous achievement for a fourteen-year-old Walton.