• O Praise the Lord of Heaven (1913)

• O Clap Your Hands (1920)

• Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge (1921)

• O Vos Omnes - "Is it Nothing to You ?" (1922)

• Mass in G minor (1922)

• Communion service in G minor (1922)
  English version of the Mass in G minor, adapted by Maurice Jacobson.

• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1923)

• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (1925)
  For the use of village choirs, hence also known as the Village Service.

• Te Deum in G (1928)

• O How Amiable (1934)
  An arrangement of a hymn for chorus and organ, originally written for the Abinger Pageant.

• Services in D minor (1939)

• The Souls of the Righteous (1947)

• Prayer to the Father of Heaven (1948)

• The Twenty-Third Psalm (1951)
  Arranged by John Churchill from RVW's "The Pilgrim's Progress".

• O Taste and See (1952)

• Te Deum and Benedictus (1954)

• A Vision of Aeroplanes - from Ezekiel (1956)

• A Choral Flourish (1956)

Unpublished Church Music

• Mass (1897-9)
  An exercise submitted for the degree of Doctor of Music; manuscript remains at Cambridge University.

"Vaughan Williams pays homage to Byrd, Tallis, and Taverner and comes up with the finest a cappella mass since the Elizabethans - the vocal equivalent of the Tallis Fantasia. A modern work nevertheless, it creates and explores a variety of choral textures. RVW dedicated it to Gustav Holst and his Whitsuntide Singers. Roger Wagner led his Chorale in the piece's best performance to date, with a stirring account of Bach's Cantata No. 4 on the flip side - a classic recording of the stereo LP era. All others have paled in comparison. Wagner succeeds because he recognizes the energy within. The other performances sound like an extremely sedate and genteel Sunday sermon, the kind the writer Alan Bennett used to make fun of. Avoid Stephen Darlington and the Christ Church (Oxford) Cathedral Choir. Matthew Best and the Corydon Singers stand at the head of versions currently available." -- Steve Schwartz

Allan Wicks. Choir of Canterbury Cathedral. Recently re-issued on Decca, 430 093 2

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Ironically for a man who wrote so much religious music, Vaughan Williams was an agnostic.

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