1990 Moeller organ at Calvary Church, Charlotte, NC

Matrimonial Magic

If this music makes you think of weddings and beautiful brides, you’re right on target. This broadcast is a collection of preludes, processionals and other pages in praise of matrimony and the emotions and circumstances which lead us to the altar. Whether it be Handel’s Hornpipe or Mendelssohn’s familiar Wedding March, a Salute to Love by Elgar, or Duke Ellington’s In a sentimental mood, you’ll be amazed by the various ways composers have dealt with love and its ramifications.

Trumpet tunes and blessings, salutes to love and lullabies, it’s all part of the package when two people tie the knot at a June wedding, and we provide the music appropriate to a chapel or cathedral creating Matrimonial Magic.

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Program Broadcast dates:

June 16, 2003

Featured Organs:

1984 Harrison organ at Westminster Abbey
(1991 Marcussen; 1691 Botzen/Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark) at Roskilde Cathedral
1787 Holzhey at Weissenau Abbey
at Melbourne Town Hall
1990 Moeller at Calvary Church, Charlotte
1929 Skinner organ at Woolsey Hall

Music played in the program

HUBERT PARRY: Bridal March –Douglas Major (1973 Aeolian-Skinner/Washington National Cathedral, DC) Gothic CD-18828

JEREMIAH CLARKE: Trumpet Voluntary. G.F. HANDEL: Hornpipe –Stephen Cleobury (1984 Harrison/Westminster Abbey, London, England, UK) London CD 421-638

ANONYMOUS: Almande d’amor –Gustav Leonhardt (1991 Marcussen; 1691 Botzen/Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark) Sony SKCD-53371

TRADITIONAL: Swedish Song, Now found is the fairest of roses –Anne-Lise Berntsen; Nils Asheim, organ (1787 Holzhey/Weissenau Abbey, Germany) Kirkelig Kulturverksted CD-136

WILLIAM McKIE: Romance in G –Thomas Heywood (2001 Schantz/Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia) Move CD-3120

DAN MILLER: Fanfare for the Bride. RICHARD WAGNER: Bridal Chorus, from Lohengrin –Dan Miller (1990 Möller/Calvary Church, Charlotte, NC) DSDS CD-1004 (Calvary Church)

EDWARD ELGAR: Salut d’Amour –Adrian Partington (1910 Binns/Albert Hall, Nottingham, England, UK) Priory CD-479

MAURICE RAVEL: Don Quichotte a Dulcinea –Håkan Hagegård, baritone; Gunnar Idenstam (1949 Marcussen/Oskar’s Church, Stockholm, Sweden) Proprius CD-9040

FRITZ KREISLER: Liebesfreud –Thomas Murray (1929 Skinner/Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT) Gothic CD-49054

FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Wedding March, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream –Luc Antonini (1983 Quoirin/Collegiale Saint Martin, Saint-Rémy-de-Province, France) Sony Masterworks CD-52560

DUKE ELLINGTON: In a sentimental mood; Prelude to a Kiss –Anders Paulsson, sax; Harry Huff, organ (1976 Åkerman & Lund/Katarina Church, Stockholm, Sweden) LCM CD-117

WYTON: A Wedding Blessing –Marilyn Keiser (1991 Visser-Rowland/First Presbyterian Church, Stamford, CT) Pro Organo CD-7025

BRAHMS: Chorale-prelude, Deck thyself with gladness –Carole Terry (1965 Flentrop/St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle, WA) MHS CD-512523

LEHRNDORFER: Improvisation on Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf –Franz Kehrndorfer (1959 Steinmeyer/Hochschule für Musik ,Munich, Germany) Calig CD-50415

BLISS: Wedding Fanfare and Fanfore for the Bride –Colin Walsh (1898 Willis/Lincoln Cathedral, England, UK) Priory CD-379

SOWERBY: A Wedding Processional –William Whitehead (1973 Aeolian-Skinner/Washington National Cathedral, DC) Resmiranda CD-8004 (nla)

This program was originally issued as #9523 in June 1995.