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.

Artists

Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, Christopher Robinson, Christopher Whitton (organ), Philippa Boyle, James McVinnie (organ), Jonathan Vaughn (organ), Choir of St John's, Elora, Matthew Larkin and Noel Edison, Matthew Larkin, Greta de Reyghere, Oliver Lepage-Dean, Edward Lyon, Daniel Pailthorpe, Stewart French, Iain Farrington and Christopher Robinson, Iain Farrington (piano), Jeffrey Makinson, Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Marlowe Brass Ensemble and Timothy Byram-Wigfield, Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Capella Brugensis, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, St. Bride's Church Choir, Fleet Street, The Elora Singers, Manchester Cathedral Choir, Marlowe Brass Ensemble, Noel Edison, Patrick Peire, Robert Jones, Tim Brown, Christopher Stokes, Timothy Byram-Wigfield