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
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
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.
This is a spreadsheet with a list of suggestions I've provided for weddings in the past in my contracting work. I've mostly done Latin Mass weddings with a pick-up group of pros, so that's what this is focused towards, but hopefully this is helpful.
I'm also going to look through the suggestions from other posters and possibly add some of them as well, so thanks for this thread!
Clara, This is an excellent list. Two small notes: 1. The Clemens Ego flos campi is in seven voices (not six): SSATTBB. 2. Clemens also wrote a longer Ego flos campi for three voices, which can be sung SMezA or TBarB.
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