Ecce ego Ioannes Omnium Sanctorum (‘Behold, I am John of all the Saints’), was commissioned by St John’s College, Cambridge, and makes reference to John’s vision of the world’s annihilation with the opening of the seventh seal (Chapters 8 and 9 of the Book of Revelation). The prelude as a whole is dominated by a rising fanfare idea. This is developed in a series of three major recurrences, interspersed by quieter, more angular episodes, which grow in cumulative force as the vision becomes evermore chaotic and terrifying with the appearance, at the end, of the ‘two hundred thousand thousand horsemen’ with their breastplates ‘of fire, and of jacinth and brimstone.’ The prelude concludes with violent trills and the inclusion of a third hand to utilise the renowned and unique ‘Trompeta Real’ of the St John’s Mander organ (which Michael Tippett so vitally exploited in his St John’s Service in 1962) as a final gesture of menace and destruction.

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