A CHORAL WEDDING

 

CD 1:

Favourite Wedding Anthems

 

Healey Willan - Rise up my love

Gerald Finzi - My lovely one

Samuel Sebastian Wesley - Blessed be the God and Father

Maurice Duruflé - Ubi caritas et amor

Lennox Berkeley - The Lord is my shepherd

César Franck - Panis Angelicus

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Laudate Dominum

Charles Villiers Stanford -  Coelos ascendit hodie

Anton Bruckner - Locus iste

John Stainer - God so loved the world

Gabriel Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine

William Walton - Set me as a seal

John Rutter - Wedding Canticle

Morten Lauridsen - O magnum mysterium

Benjamin Britten - Jubilate Deo

Gerald Finzi - God is Gone Up

Hubert Parry - I was glad when they said unto me

 

CD 2:

Favourite Wedding Hymns

 

All people that on earth do dwell

Dear Lord and Father of mankind

King of glory, King of peace

Ye watchers and ye holy ones

Let all mortal flesh keep silent

Immortal, invisible, God only wise

All my hope on God is founded

The Lord's my shepherd

Tell out, my soul

Christ is made the sure foundation

Come down, O Love divine

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation

Jerusalem

Abide with me

Alleluya, sing to Jesus!

Ye holy angels bright

My song is love unknown

Holy, holy, holy!

Glorious things of these are spoken

O for a thousand tongues to sing

Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven

O praise ye the Lord

 

A new release in the Naxos wedding music series, ‘A Choral Wedding’ is a 2 CD collection of popular choral anthems and favourite hymns which have been chosen specifically as suggestions for brides and grooms planning church weddings with a choir.

 

CD 1 includes a variety of anthems from the popular Anglican tradition such as Wesley’s Blessed be the God and Father and Parry’s I was glad through to classical evergreens such as Mozart’s Laudate Dominum and Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine. There are some seasonal items too – Stainer’s God so loved the world for an Easter wedding and Lauridsen’s O magnum mysterium for a Christmas wedding.

 

CD 2 is a re-packaged version of Abide with Me (8557578), and includes a wide selection of congregational hymns such as sing-along favourites Jerusalem and Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven.

 

Naxos 2cds 8578196-97