[ Telarc Records / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 1 August 2002
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Classical pieces specially selected for the contemporary wedding ceremony
Telarc presents the year's most beautiful wedding collection, Music for a Perfect Day, offers classical pieces specially selected for the contemporary wedding ceremony.
More and more brides are choosing to have harpists perform for their wedding ceremonies. This beautiful collection of classical pieces for harp features selections that are not included on any other wedding album, uniquely suited to all parts of the wedding service, and performed by Yolanda Kondonassis, one of today's most acclaimed harpists.
The booklet notes contain helpful suggestions for the bride-to-be in planning music for the wedding, including a description of each of the essential musical parts of the wedding ceremony: The Prelude, The Processional, The Interlude, The Recessional, and The Postlude.
1. J.S. Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (from Cantata No. 147)
2. Debussy: Reverie
3. Satie: Gymnopedie No. 1
4. Debussy: Clair de lune
5. Salzedo: Quietude
6. Debussy: En Bateau
Music for The Processional
7. Pachelbel: Canon in D major
8. J.S. Bach: Andante (from Violin Sonata No. 2)
9. J.S. Bach: Arioso (Sinfonia from Cantata No. 156)
10. Vivaldi: Largo (from The Four Seasons: "Winter")
Music for The Interlude
11. Gounod: Ave Maria (adapted to Prelude No. 1 of J.S. Bach)
12. Mendelssohn: Meditation (from Songs Without Words, Op. 67, No. 1)
13. Faure: Apres un reve
14. Debussy: Arabesque No. 1
Music for The Recessional / Postlude
15. Vivaldi: Allegro (from The Four Seasons: "Spring")
16. Telemann: Fantasia No. 2 in D major (excerpt)
17. J.S. Bach: Bourree (from Suite for Lute, BWV 996)
18. Scarlatti: Sonata in B minor, K. 27 (Allegro)
19. Handel: Passacaille (from Suite No. 7)
20. Vivaldi: Allegro (from The Four Seasons: "Autumn")