This programme covers favourite pieces of liturgical music suitable for all types of religious wedding services, as well as secular works for non-religious occasions, including civil ceremonies. The works are grouped as follows for all the various stages of a wedding, although most of the pieces could also be used during other parts of the ceremony.

Before the Ceremony

Gentle music to put the guests into a happy mood before the ceremony begins

Arrival Voluntaries:

Music to accompany the wedding party as they enter the venue, including the famous Wedding March from Wagner’s Lohengrin

Vows and Prayers

Uplifting music to signify both the solemnity and the happiness of a wedding

Signing the Register

Reflective music to help the guests concentrate on the importance of the occasion

Communion

Mainly liturgical music suitable for religious services

Departure Voluntaries

Joyous music to be played as the happy couple leave, including the Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mendelssohn and Widor’s Toccata

Artists

Ian Watson (organ), Noel Rawsthorne (organ), David Reichenberg (oboe), Markus Klinko (harp), Piers Lane (piano), Tasmin Little (violin), Reginald Kilbey & His Strings (vocals), Reginald Kilbey Strings (performed by), Fredrico Bayco (organ), Frederic Bayco (vocals), Jane Parker-Smith (organ), Maurice André (trumpet), Ian Tracey (organ), Charles Brett (vocals), Ian Partridge (vocals), Stephen Roberts (bass), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano), Marilyn Sansom (musician, violoncello), Thomas Trotter (musician, organ), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Paul Cocker (harpsichord), Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Erik Lundkvist (organ), Sioned Williams (harp), Stephen Cleobury (director), Philip Ledger (organ, piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Lucia Popp (soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone, bass-baritone), Alfie Boe (tenor), David Temple (director), Sir George Thalben-Ball, Léon Goossens (oboe), George Thalben-Ball (organ, oboe), Tom Bullard, Thomas Bullard (bass-baritone), Fredric Bayco (organ), Kun-Woo Paik (piano), Ian Wells (organ), Jane Gilchrist (soprano), Fergus Thirwell (boy soprano), Simon Gibson (organ), Elmar Schloter (organ), David James (vocals), Paul Hillier (bass), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Stephen Layton (organ), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Roger Covey-Crump (vocals), Roy Goodman (leader, orchestra leader), Teddy Layton (organ), Harry Bramma (organ), Laurence Dale (tenor), Wayne Marshall (organ), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, The Nash Ensemble, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Menuhin Festival Orchestra, Camerata Lysy Gstaad, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, The Wallace Collection, English Chamber Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus, Crouch End Festival Chrous, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Temple Church Choir, Liverpool Cathedral Brass Ensemble, Liverpool Cathedral Choir, Massed Choirs from Merseyside, Stockholm Chamber Choir, Stockholm Radio Chorus, Berliner Philharmoniker, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Worcester Cathedral Choir, Chœur de Radio France, Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Sir Neville Marriner, Andrew Parrott, Reginald Kilbey, Kenneth Montgomery, Alberto Lysy, Jörg Faerber, Eric Ericson, György Fischer, Sir David Willcocks, John Owen Edwards, Riccardo Muti, Kirk Trevor, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Christopher Robinson, Georges Prêtre