The joy, grandeur and intimacy of this ceremony of love is celebrated by great composers on a collection of music which is organised to take the listener through each part of the wedding service. From the Trumpet Voluntary to Widor’s Toccata, all the most famous wedding music is here, in performances drawn from the unique riches of the EMI Classics catalogue.

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. This is no ordinary wedding album. This is The Ultimate Wedding Collection, lavishly packaged and ideal for the lucrative wedding gifting market. The most special day of someone’s life demands an equally special product. This is it!

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