Choral Wedding Repertoire suggestions

AdteBeateJoseph3

Pax!

Do the members of the forum have any wedding choral repertoire that you sing that isn’t Duruflé’s Ubi Caritas? It is a lovely piece, but the schola needs to change things up a bit! Rise Up my love by Healey Willan is one piece that is quite beautiful. Your help is much appreciated!
God Bless

irishtenor

How about the Biebl Ave Maria? Crowd pleaser if ever I heard one

tomjaw

We have sung this a few times, https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Cum_esset_desponsata_(Heinrich_Isaac)

The text is used for the feast of the Espousals...

m_r_taylor

If you're thinking somewhat modern, here is Clausen's Set Me As A Seal Upon Your Heart https://www.jwpepper.com/Set-Me-As-a-Seal/1735687.item

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mVWmIj_O3E

Liam

Assuming a context where non-Latin texts are permitted, and setting myriad Magnificats and Marian Aves & antiphons to one side....

Exsultate Deo - Palestrina // Sing Joyfully Unto God - Byrd [same ultimate source text]

Exultate Justi - Viadana

Rejoice in The Lord Alway - anon. 16th century

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern - myriad settings to choose from, but the original text regards a mystical wedding

in a similar vein, an indelible adaptation from the Song of Songs: I Am The Rose of Sharon - Billings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWMPPdzErsk )

Beati Quorum Via - Stanford

Notre Père - Durufle

Sing My Soul - Rorem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2aAs08NzV8 )

AdteBeateJoseph3

Thanks all for the suggestions so far! I am able to use non-Latin texts for the liturgy.

emac3183

Another somewhat modern take on the Song of Songs:
I Am the Rose of Sharon (Ivo Antognini): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnkZivbkh0g

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is always nice, and I would love to hear a choir do it justice.

One communion chant option is Beati Mundo Corde (also the communion for All Saints), which has plenty of settings of CPDL (Byrd, Anonymous, and more).

CGM

I've been commissioned to write music for a couple choral weddings. Here are some Communion motets:

1. Blessed are the clean of heart, a8 SSAATTBB
2. Ecce sic benedicetur, a6 SSATTB

DM me over the forum if you're interested in the scores, which I sell for a nominal fee.

SponsaChristi

There’s the Gjeilo Ubi Caritas that we sang at TLM nuptial Masses

Had a bride request Adoramus te Christe sung in SATB
Lasso’s In te speravi Domine
Numerous Ave Maria’s
Palestrina’s Sicut Cervus
Numerous polyphonic Mass settings

NihilNominis

My dear friend and fellow forum member Jacob Flaherty wrote this for a mutual friend's wedding... he might be willing to provide the score:

Arise, My Love, My Fair One

vansensei

Caroline Shaw -- and the swallow
Ivo Antognini -- Surge, Amica Mea

The Shaw is very contemporary but it's incredible. One of my favorite choral pieces of all time.

PhilipPowell

I’ve done Tallis’ “If Ye Love Me” a number of times. It’s been done at quite a few of the recent English royal weddings.

Roborgelmeister

Wedding Cantata (1956)
IV. Epilogue: Set Me as a Seal
Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)

Nathan_the_Organist

I know there are a bunch of different Ave Maria's, but the one by Jacques Arcadelt would be quite good for a wedding.

Chaswjd

If you can do five voice, Palestrina set much of the Song of Songs. Although it’s a bit off topic, I have always liked the Monteverdi, Ego flos campi for alto solo and continuo.

Polyfollia

Or, even six voices: Nuptiæ factæ sunt by Orlando di Lasso...

https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Nuptiae_factae_sunt_(Orlando_di_Lasso)

(as long as there is wine... or shortage...)

Anna_Bendiksen

Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine?

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