Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Adagio from Ave Verum (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Largo from Winter (Antonio Vivaldi)
Air from Suite No. 3 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Canon (Johann Pachelbel)
Trumpet Voluntary (Jeremiah Clarke)
Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition (Modest Musorsky)
Hornpipe from Water Music (George Frideric Handel)
La Rejouissance from Royal Fireworks (George Frideric Handel)
Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Trumpet Tune (Henry Purcell)
Rondeau from Premi?re Suite (Jean-Joseph Mouret)
Spring from The Four Seasons (Antonio Vivaldi)
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 favor... more »ites 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.« less
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.
CD Reviews
The Best CD for Choosing Wedding Music!
Jen Brooks | San Francisco, CA USA | 05/16/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"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."
String Quartet ONLY!
Jessica Hunt | 10/08/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This is an excellent CD to get the feel for a STRING QUARTET. I would suggest only purchasing it if you need help deciding what your string quartet will play - and remember a string quartet sounds LOVELY but is not the same a a single violinist or orchestra.It's a good buy for VILOIN LOVERS - and If you're like me - having a STRING QUARTET AT YOUR WEDDING! Good luck!"
The perfect shower gift for the new bride
mark fisher | huntington beach, ca usa | 05/04/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This CD sounds beautiful. As a bride about to get married it really helped me pick the repertoire for the string quartet. Now I have this music as a memory of my wedding. This CD makes a wonderful gift for bridal showers and for anyone who enjoys classical music."
Review from Professional Orchestral Musician in NYC
Jessica Hunt | New York | 01/08/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"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."
Fantastic CD
Jessica Hunt | 04/09/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"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."
Track Listings (14) - Disc #1