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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Complete Wedding Album: There Is Love Various artists from the Telarc catalogue [ Telarc Classics / 2 CD - released 18/Sep/1998 ] Having a wedding? Look no further |
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Duran Duran
Duran Duran: The Wedding Album [ Capitol / CD ] |
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ORLANDE de LASSUS
Lassus: Le Nozze in Baviera (Music for the 1568 Wedding of Wilhelm V of Bavaria and Renate of Lorraine) Ensemble Origo, Eric Rice (director) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jan/2021 ] The wedding in 1568 of Renate of Lorraine to Wilhelm V, heir to the throne of the Duke of Bavaria, was a sumptuous, 18-day spectacular designed to rival those of the Italian courts. Orlande de Lassus had been the courts maestro di cappella since... |
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Country Wedding
[ Kojo Pictures DVD / DVD - released 7/Oct/2010 ] A couple decide to get married in a church out in the country. It is a one hour drive from Reykjavik but things do not go as planned. COUNTRY WEDDING is a touching and funny road movie revolving around two busloads of Icelanders attending a... |
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Sir PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
A Celebration of Scotland [incls 'An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise'] George MacIlwham (Highland bagpipes) & Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor/pianist) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Choir of St. Mary's School, Edinburg [ Unicorn-Kanchana / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] "Davies is a master story-teller in this vividly detailed tone painting…." (Gramophone) |
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Gunter Wand
Fortner: Blood Wedding [ Profil / CD - released 2/Jul/2007 ] |
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JOHAN HELMICH ROMAN
Drottningholmsmusiken - Music for a Royal Wedding Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Manze [ BIS / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] "Andrew Manze directs as exciting a performance as we might expect from someone so thoroughly versed in period performance practice." (9/9 ClassicsToday March 2011) |
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Wedding Album [ Rykodisc / CD - released 15/Nov/2010 ] |
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Wedding Album (Box Set LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 22/Mar/2019 ] Originally released in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Wedding Album was the couple's third experimental, album-length record, following Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (1968) and Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions (1969), and one of... |
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The Kingdom Choir
Stand By Me [ Sony / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] Having shot to global prominence following their mesmerising performance at the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle earlier this year, The Kingdom Choir were promptly signed to Sony Music who release their debut album Stand By Me. The... |
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker [plus Sleeping Beauty: Aurora's Wedding] Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit [ Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] A favourite ballet all round the year, but a perennial at Christmas-time, Tchaikovsky's evergreen Nutcracker has never perhaps received as luxurious a recorded performance as that of Charles Dutoit and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. |
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MICHAEL HURD
The Aspern Papers / The Night of the Wedding [chamber operas] Owen Gilhooly, Pippa Goss, Clare McCaldin, Nicholas Morton, Garry Humphreys / Ulster Orchestra, George Vass [ Lyrita / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] Michael Hurd was born in Gloucester on 19 December 1928. He studied at Pembroke College, Oxford (1950-53) with Sir Thomas Armstrong and Dr Bernard Rose and became President of the University Music Society. In addition, he took composition lessons... |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: The Five Piano Concertos / Wedding Cake Pascal Roge, Daniel Chorzempa, Bella Davidovich, Michele Campanella, Magda Tagliaferro (pianos) / various orchestras [ Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 9/Apr/2007 ] Saint-Saëns complete piano concertos on a 2CD Eloquence set presents some truly rare recordings - Campanella's of the Fourth and Tagliaferro's of the Fifth. |
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SAINT-SAENS / FAURE / RAVEL / DEBUSSY / POULENC / etc
Wedding Cake: Music for Piano Duo Pascal Roge & Ami Roge (piano) [ Onyx / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] A delightful programme of French music for two pianos and four hands from Onyx artist Pascal Rogé and his wife Ami. The music is a mix of the urbane, witty, tender, passionate and dramatic |
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MONCKTON / KETELBEY / KROTSCH / BUCALOSSI / JESSEL / FANE / CONEY / etc
The Picnic Party [Incls 'In a Persian Market' & 'The Grasshopper's Dance'] Palm Court Theatre Orchestra. Anthony Godwin (conductor) [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] Popular light music from the 20s and 30s in a Palm Court style |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 3 / Wedding Cake Valse / etc Romain Descharmes (piano) / Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Marc Soustrot [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2017 ] "the climax of [Africa] is carried off with a nonchalant swagger that I found iresistible, the triangle adding a curious buzzing effect. The warmth and depth of the orchestal contribution and Marc Soustrot's eye for detail are significant bonuses." |
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Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Symphony No. 6 / An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise / etc Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] |
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LORD BERNERS
Berners: A Wedding Bouquet / Luna Park / March RTÉ Sinfonietta & Chamber Choir, Kenneth Alwyn [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2021 ] Lord Berners' compositions, often satirical in intention, include ballets for Diaghilev and for Sadler's Wells. |
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Salzburger Hofmusik/Brunner
M Haydn: The Wedding [ Profil / CD - released 30/Oct/2006 ] |
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GEIRR TVEITT
Wedding Suite & Troll Tunes Stavanger Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ole Kristian Ruud [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jul/2003 ] Geirr Tveitt was only sixteen when he began to notate folk melodies as they were sung by elderly people in the neighbourhood in Hardanger. |