There’s nothing like a musical knees-up. On Saturday, which happened to be Her Majesty’s official birthday, we enjoyed plenty of choral praise – a Te Deum, a Gloria, and a Coronation Mass – plus a jovial symphony, with Psalm 23 injecting a sense of proportion.

YMS was up for it. Stirred by an orchestra at the top of its form and led by David Pipe’s decisive baton, this was a choir almost unrecognisable from six months ago.

His second Te Deum may be fairly regulation Haydn, but it soon swung into an easy stride. When we had reached the Credo of Mozart’s Coronation Mass, there was a clearly a new spirit of choral self-belief abroad. In the wake of the solo quartet’s reverent Incarnatus, we might have had a more hushed Crucifixus.

But the Sanctus was notably invigorating and soprano Catrin Woodruff’s prettily phrased Agnus Dei provided the icing on the cake.

English composers took over after the interval. Philip Moore’s largely pastoral setting of Psalm 23 (2011), with strings and organ, here enjoying its second performance, gains immeasurably from the frequent repetition of its opening verse, each time in a different key, as if to underline its unchanging message, come what may. It was treated affectionately, and proved immediately endearing.

Boyce’s rococo First Symphony, equally engaging, played prelude to Rutter’s youthfully exuberant Gloria (1974).

Blazing brass and percussion, recalling Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast, encouraged the choir to let its hair down. An apt dessert indeed.