Wedding Music

Antonio Vivaldi

Can anyone think of a good reason to sing this at a wedding? Not me. Lovely though it is.

Charles Gounod

Gounod used to be very popular - sadly out of fashion. Perhaps this song can bring him back.

Alfred Hollins

Striving; yearning; short, upwardly arched repeated fragments, eventually take flight in a melody characterised by wide intervals. Soaring like a couple at a wedding.

Louis Vierne

What a fun piece! Loud and fast, it is exciting, and would enliven the end of any wedding ceremony.

Léo Delibes

An exotic duet, perfumed one might say. Nothing at all to do with a wedding, but comes under the heading of "Good tunes that people might recognise".

John Rutter

What a beautiful and appealing anthem.

Antonio Vivaldi

This work by Vivaldi has seized the public imagination, with its scrubbing strings, and vigorous exclamations of Glory.

Chris Williams

I love this. The repeated Alleluia's at the end, in canon are a nice touch.

Alexandre Guilmant

A march in three-four (!) - loud and boisterous.

Giuseppe Verdi

A stirring, grand march

Erik Satie

Satie's piece was written in 1888, but sounds so modern.

George Frideric Handel

This rousing chorus may have your audience standing.