David Hurd - Te Deum laudamus - (1981) - Part 4 - Great Organ, St. John the Divine, NYC

Bruce Neswick performs from the 1st Sunday afternoon recital series at The Cathedral of St. John The Divine, NYC. This recital series, entitled 'The Great Organ: It's Sunday', began on September 13th, 2009.
Bruce Neswick is the Director of Cathedral Music and Organist at St. John The Divine.
About his work, David Hurd writes:
INTRODUCTION, FUGUE AND CHACCONE - THE OPENING OF HEAVEN begins as Dies irae and Victimae paschali - two ancient Latin sequences respectively speaking of death and life - are pitted against one another in jagged rhythm and fiery reed color. At the peak of combat, a short cadenza re-introduces the tone row of the apostles' praise (from the second movement) and climaxes with a recollection of a now altered form of the fanfare figure heard before in the first and second movements. The Chaccone emerges quietly out of the combat. The fifteen variations on a ground, derived from the apostles' praise, call to remembrance the various melodies, textures and colors of all that has gone before in this and other movements, casting it all upward in a triumphant crescendo toward Christ in glory at the right hand of God.
I had to edit out the chant at the beginning of the movement in order to fit the clip within CZcams's 10-minute limit.