Classical Wedding Music

29 April 2006

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Classical music is not everyone’s cup of tea. But there’s just something about it that makes us girls go gooey eyed, and the idea of walking down the aisle to 'here comes the Bride' is something many little girls (and not so little ones) have dreamed about.

Just to get you in the mood for the trawl through hundreds and hundreds of classical CDs, here are our picks of the top classical tracks to get you inspired.

Bridal chorus The traditional 'Here Comes the Bride' track, it’s probably one of the most commonly used wedding tracks, and it’s quite a beautiful piece of music. Perfect if you’re into tradition, but if you look a little deeper, it’s not such a good choice

It comes from the Opera Lohengrin, by Richard Wagner. The opera is based on A German Myth called ‘the Tale of the Swan Knight’. We need not worry about the whole of the story, but the Bridal Chorus is sung by the heroine Chambermaids as she heads to the Bridal chamber for her first night as a married women.

Ode to Joy The fourth Movement in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was the musical accompaniment to this poem, written by Friedrich Schiller.

The poem has a theme of Joy and Union to it, which is perfect for weddings, and the music itself. When played on a Pipe Organ, the main chorus it has a Regal and joyful sound, and could be the perfect theme to your first walk as a married woman

Pachabel’s Cannon in G This is the traditional entrance music for the Bridesmaids, in an American style wedding, where the bridesmaids precede the Bride down the Aisle.

Traditionally written for Three violins and a Basso, it has to be said that the pipe organ doesn’t do it any favours. But if you plan to have a live quartet play in the church then this piece is the perfect one to ask of them. It gives a country gentry theme to a wedding and conjures up visions of a marquee in the summer, or a grand ballroom, and glasses of chilled champagne

It continues to be subject to different arrangements, and has even been heard played on electric guitar, in anything from Guns n Roses style, to Something you’d expect to hear from Busted or McFly.

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