To listen to specific songs, see the high lighted songs * below.
Alternatively visit:
www.youtube.com/celebrationsongs
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You can also purchase my CD, ‘There is my Love’,
Songs for Special Occasions for Harp and Voice.
I can send it to you directly upon payment.
Alternatively you can buy the CD as an MP3 Album or individual tracks via Itunes, Bandcamp and Amazon.
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| RECOMMENDED WEDDING SINGER REPERTOIRE |
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| FOLK SONGS: SECULAR |
| My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose |
by Robert Burns - Scottish Folk
View on YouTube click here » |
| She moved through the fair |
Irish Folk
View on YouTube click here » |
| Dacw 'Nghariad |
Beautiful Welsh folk song
View on YouTube click here » |
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| BAROQUE, CLASSICAL, ROMANTIC, 20TH CENTURY, CONTEMPORARY: RELIGIOUS |
| Lauda V - Altissima Luce |
By Gavin Bryars - Medieval Chant
View on YouTube click here »
Lauda V - slide show on YouTube
click here »
Lauda V - in High Definition Live Video
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| Ave Maria * |
Bach/Gounod, Caccini, Schubert
View on YouTube
click here »
for Bach/Gounod's Ave Maria
click here »
for Schubert's Ave Maria with piano accompaniment
click here »
for Schubert's Ave Maria with harp accompaniment
click here »
for version attributed to Caccini/Vavilov |
| The Call |
R Vaughan Williams, words by George Herbert |
| ‘Morgen’ (Tomorrow) |
Richard Strauss' sublime aria written to his wife, who was a great singer, as a wedding gift
View on YouTube click here » |
| How Beautiful are the Feet |
From Handel's beloved oratorio ‘Messiah’
View on YouTube click here » |
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| BAROQUE, CLASSICAL, ROMANTIC, 20TH CENTURY, CONTEMPORARY: SECULAR |
| Amarilli mia Bella |
Caccini |
| Where'er You Walk |
from the Oratorio/Opera ‘Semele’ by G. F. Handel |
| Bist Du Bei Mir |
by Gottfried H. Stölzel
was included by Bach in his famous piano book to
Anna Magdalena Bach
View on YouTube click here » |
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| Please note that for civil weddings song choices should be agreed with your registrar in advance. |
| View Extended Wedding Singer Repertoire |
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RECOMMENDED FUNERAL SINGER / MEMORIAL SINGER REPERTOIRE |
| BAROQUE, CLASSICAL, ROMANTIC, 20TH CENTURY, CONTEMPORARY: RELIGIOUS |
| Lascia ch'io Pianga |
From Handel's Opera ‘Rinaldo’
View on YouTube click here » |
| Nunc Dimittis |
Geoffrey Burgon theme tune from ‘Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy’ |
| Ave Maria * |
Bach/Gounod, Caccini, Schubert
View on YouTube
click here »
for Bach/Gounod's Ave Maria
click here »
for Schubert's Ave Maria with piano accompaniment
click here »
for Schubert's Ave Maria with harp accompaniment
click here »
for version attributed to Caccini/Vavilov |
| All is Fulfilled |
from Bach's St. John's Passion |
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| BAROQUE, CLASSICAL, ROMANTIC, 20TH CENTURY, CONTEMPORARY: SECULAR |
| Dido's Lament |
‘When I am Laid in Earth’, Baroque, Purcell |
| Going Home |
The theme from the ‘Largo’ from Dvorák's New World Symphony was adapted into the spiritual-like song ‘Goin' Home’,
by Dvorák's pupil William Arms Fisher, who wrote the lyrics. |
| Ombra mai fu |
Known as Handel's ‘Largo’ from his opera ‘Xerxes’
View on YouTube click here » |
Bist Du Bei Mir |
by Gottfried H. Stölzel
was included by Bach in his famous piano book to
Anna Magdalena Bach
View on YouTube click here » |
| You'll never walk alone |
by Richard Rogers from the musical ‘Carousel’. The song is also sung at association football clubs around the world. |
| An die Musik |
Schubert |
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| FOLK SONGS: RELIGIOUS |
| Leaves of Life |
Easter Folk Carol based on the Apocryphal Gospel |
| Amazing Grace |
John Newton |
| Danny Boy |
Ballad set to an ancient Irish melody
View on YouTube click here »
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| FOLK SONGS: SECULAR |
| My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose |
by Robert Burns - Scottish Folk
View on YouTube click here » |
| The Sea Invocation |
Manx Folk Song - arranged by Fenella Bazin
View on YouTube click here » |
| The Last Rose of Summer |
words by the Irish poet Thomas Moore |
| View Extended Funeral Singer Repertoire |
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RECOMMENDED CHRISTENING SINGER / NAMING CEREMONY SINGER REPERTOIRE |
| Suo Gan |
Traditional Welsh Lullaby |
| Good Night |
A Russian song by Dimitri Kabalevsky, arranged by Doreen Rao
View on YouTube click here » |
| Gjendines Lullaby |
A Norwegian folk lullaby, arrang. sung and played by Marianne Lihannah
Listen on YouTube
click here » |
| The Spring by the Wayside |
Walter Braithwaite |
| Sing to the Child |
Christoph Andreas Lindenberg |
| The Lamb |
Elizabeth Poston (Words by Blake) |
| View Extended Christening Singer Repertoire |
