Essential Wedding Music for Manuals

70 enormously popular pieces-The bestselling original has been revised and enlarged with 10 more popular pieces that are requested for weddings funerals and other special occasions offering a bumper total of 70. A fabulous resource for the parishorganist.Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 - MahlerAdagio for strings - BarberAdagio from Violin Concerto No. 1 - BruchAir bourrée and coro from The Water Music -HandelAir from Suite No. 3 - BachAlleluia from Exultate Jubilate - MozartAndante from Piano Concerto No.21 - MozartAndante tranquillo - WarlockArioso -BachArrival of the Queen of Sheba - HandelAutumn from The Four Seasons - VivaldiAve Maria - GounodAve Maria - SchubertAve Verum Corpus - MozartBehold a roseis blooming - BrahmsBist du bei mir - BachBlessed are ye faithful souls - BrahmsCanon in D - PachelbelCantique de Jean Racine - FauréChanson de matin -ElgarChorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco - VerdiCujus animam - RossiniDance of the blessed spirits from Orpheus - GluckFinale from Music for the Royal Fireworks -HandelFirst movement from Eine kleine Nachtmusik - MozartGavotte - BoyceGavotte from French Suite No. 5 - BachGavotte from Suite No.3 - BachGymnopédie No.1 -SatieHallelujah Chorus from Messiah - HandelI know that my Redeemer liveth from Messiah - HandelIntermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana - MascagniJerusalem - ParryJesu joyof man?s desiring - BachKomm s?sser Tod - BachLand of hope and glory - ElgarLargo from Concerto in D minor - VivaldiLargo from Serse - HandelLaudate Dominum

The 32 pieces in this anthology have all been specially chosen by Robert Gower because they have a touch of grandeur and are guaranteed to make a striking impression on any audience or congregation! Given such an inclusive interpretation of ceremonial the contents cover a range of moods and periods from baroque to contemporary from stately to extrovert from major-key exuberance to minor-key gravitas. All the pieces are immediately attractive and accessible both to the player and to the listener and virtually all the works here will be popular at weddings as voluntaries or for recitals. With a few exceptions most of the music is not difficult and hasbeen wonderfully set here for Organ Manuals and Pedals. Alongside established favourites by Handel Elgar Boellmann Mendelssohn and Purcell there are contemporary pieces by Francis Jackson Herbert Sumsion Grayston Ives Bob Chilcott and John Madden. You will soon find this volume proving to be an essential addition to the organist’s library.