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Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Te Deum, H. 146, one of four surviving settings he made of the text, is probably the work for which the French Baroque master is best known to modern audiences because its regal instrumental Prelude was used as the theme for Eurovision Television and the documentary The Olympiad.
This Te Deum has had many dozens of recordings and this 2000 version featuring Martin Gester and the instrumental and vocal ensemble Maîtrise De Bretagne is generally considered one of the finest. At its best, it is very, very good, as are the performances of the other works on the disc, In honorem Sancti Ludovici Regis Galilae Canticum, In honorem Sancti Ludovici Regis Galilae, and the motet Notus in Judea.