The work was an immediate success, and was quickly taken up by other choirs. The following year it was given alongside Sullivan's "The Golden Legend" at the Three Choirs Festival. Recognised as "one of the outstanding English choral works", the work has remained a standard in the choral repertory. Among its higher-profile performances in the 21st century were those by BBC forces at the Last Night of the Proms in September 2010, and by the choirs of Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in April 2011.