Wedding Music

Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), George Frideric Handel, Jean-Joseph Mouret, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Modest Musorsky, Johann Pachelbel, Henry Purcell, Antonio Vivaldi Jeremiah Clarke (Composer), Victoria Paterson (Violin) (Performer), Eriko Yoshida-Daly (Violin) (Performer), Max Buckholtz (Viola) (Performer), Eliza Evett (Cello) (Performer), Lumiere String Quartet (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Victoria Paterson (Violin), Eriko Yoshida-Daly (Violin), Max Buckholtz (Viola), Eliza Evett (Cello)
• Orchestra: Lumiere String Quartet
• Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frideric Handel, Jean-Joseph Mouret, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Modest Musorsky, Johann Pachelbel, Henry Purcell, Antonio Vivaldi Jeremiah Clarke
• Audio CD (February 16, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Lumiere Records
• ASIN: B00005AG2P
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,437 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Largo (George Frideric Handel)

2. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Johann Sebastian Bach)

3. Adagio from Ave Verum (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

4. Largo from Winter (Antonio Vivaldi)

5. Air from Suite No. 3 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

6. Canon (Johann Pachelbel)

7. Trumpet Voluntary (Jeremiah Clarke)

8. Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition (Modest Musorsky)

9. Hornpipe from Water Music (George Frideric Handel)

10. La Rejouissance from Royal Fireworks (George Frideric Handel)

11. Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9 (Ludwig van Beethoven)

12. Trumpet Tune (Henry Purcell)

13. Rondeau from Première Suite (Jean-Joseph Mouret)

14. Spring from The Four Seasons (Antonio Vivaldi)

Editorial Reviews

From the Artist

This CD of wedding music for string quartet is released by Victoria Paterson, a professional violinist who recognizes the need for a recording that represents music that is often played at weddings. This very beautiful collection of wedding music selections will surely delight all listeners, not just those looking for music for their wedding!

Product Description

This string quartet CD is a collection of beautuful selections often played at weddings. After your wedding, you may find it so relaxing that you want to listen to it again and again. It includes many popular wedding favorites such as J.S. Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Trumpet Voluntary, Pachelbel's Canon and Spring from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best CD for Choosing Wedding Music!, May 15, 2003

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Jen Brooks (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wedding Music (Audio CD)

If you are a couple researching wedding music for your big event, you won't regret purchasing this wonderful, beautifully-recorded CD. It is a MUST HAVE recording. It clearly represents what kind of music you will have at your wedding. The sound is gorgeous, clear and full, and it contains the standard pieces that string quartets play at weddings.

While my husband and I were deciding what music to choose for our wedding, we bought a whole selection of wedding CDs from Amazon.com. One crucial detail we did not think of before we bought all these recordings is that we are hiring a string quartet: not a chamber orchestra, a rock band or a group of electric keyboard players. Most of the CDs we bought, such as the "Classical Wedding Traditions" CD (a recording of a chamber orchestra), were useless. It's not like we will be having the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra or NY Philharmonic play at our wedding. You can't ask a string quartet to play orchestra music. You can ask for some transcriptions, but they generally play music specifically written for string quartet. The first violinist of the string quartet we hired highly recommended this CD to us as a basis of what they enjoy playing at weddings.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review from Professional Orchestral Musician in NYC, January 8, 2006

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Jessica Hunt (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wedding Music (Audio CD)

I just bought this CD and I must say, I don't know what that previous reviewer is talking about. Did that person even hear the CD? I am also a professional musician, also conservatory-trained, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and I think these musicians are playing excellently. Being in the wedding business for a long time, I can tell you that sometimes other musicians with weddng CDs give negative reviews to other musician's CDs so you'll purchase their CD instead. It's a shame what some musicians will resort to in order to sell a few CDs. If you listen to the clips, you'll hear how good they sound. Granted, the sound clips on Amazon are not high-quality, so I looked for these tracks on iTunes before I purchased the CD, and they are much, much better (I searched Wedding Music Victoria Paterson). Owning the CD, I can tell you that it sounds much nicer than the sound examples. Also, their programming is right on: this is definitely what a professional string quartet plays at weddings, and I should know since this is what I do for a living, along with being a freelance orchestral musician.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic CD, April 9, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Wedding Music (Audio CD)

If you love string quartet music rather than chamber orchestra music, like I do, then this is a wonderful, classy CD to have. All the selections are fantastic, rather than just a few of them.