Orlando Gibbons was organist at both the Chapel Royal and Westminster Abbey and wrote this ‘In Nomine’ (a popular form in England during the 16th- and 17th-centuries) for viols. Based on a plainsong, it enabled beginners to play the cantus fimus while more experienced members of the consort supplied more technically demanding parts.
Elgar Howarth’s transcription for brass provides a work of majestic sonorities.
