Everyone attaches particular importance to the music for their wedding ceremony. It is, after all, the key ingredient essential for intensifying the emotional level of a very special day which is to be shared not only by the happy couple but also with all their guests. Choosing the music for one’s wedding is an intimate thing, a second declaration of love between bride and groom. But it is also a bid to express and convey to the young couple’s nearest and dearest, who will be present with them at the wedding, all those feelings of joy and love which cannot be expressed by a mere exchange of "I do’s" and of rings.

And so, whatever your musical tastes and temperament and no matter how you choose to say "I love you" or "I do", you’ll find music to suit you on this double album: from favourite classics to rare gems of the repertoire, from music for festive occasions to more intimate, soulful and reflective melodies, this compilation brings together the most beautiful masterpieces to help you make your wedding an occasion of pure emotion and shared happiness and ensure that you never forget the most beautiful day of your life.

Artists

Christopher Krueger/Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra/Andrew Parrott, Christopher Krueger (flute), Aldo Ciccolini (piano), Ian Watson (organ), Marielle Labèque (piano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor, mezzo-soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (vocals), Lucia Popp (soprano), David Briggs (harmonium), Dimitri Kavrakos (double bass), Katia Labèque (piano), Lionel Rogg (organ), Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Stockholm Chamber Choir (lead vocals), Swedish Radio Choir (lead vocals), Emily van Evera (soprano), Alison Place (mezzo-soprano), Wayne Marshall (organ), Erik Lundkvist (organ), Rebecca Evans (soprano), Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company, Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Taverner Players (vocal & instrumental ensemble), Taverner Consort (vocal & instrumental ensemble), Taverner Choir, Fabio Biondi (violin), Maurice André (trumpet), Jane Parker-Smith (organ), Delphine Haidan (mezzo-soprano), Natalie Dessay (soprano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra/Andrew Parrott, Susan Tomes (piano), Ian Brown (piano), Christopher van Kempen (cello)

Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Boston Early Music Festival, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, Orchestre de Paris, Choeur de l'Orchestre de Paris, Berliner Philharmoniker, Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, Le Jeune Choeur de Paris, Laurence Equilbey, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain, Europa Galante, Les Arts Florissants, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, London Classical Players, Northern Sinfonia, The Nash Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Andrew Parrott, Sir Neville Marriner, Stephen Cleobury, George Fischer, György Fischer, Paavo Järvi, Riccardo Muti, Eric Ericson, John Nelson, William Christie, Michel Plasson, Daniel Harding, Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Roger Norrington, Richard Hickox, André Previn, Franz Welser-Möst