A short classical piece expressing joy

[Mrs Magpie]

Telemann's Concerto for Trumpet and two Oboes sounds worth a go too.

ooh yes, that's lovely. Trumpets have a very joyous sound. I love the trumpet bit in Shostakovich's Concerto No. 1 for piano and trumpet.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Where are you thinking of? I just played through the whole piece on Youtube (Leonid Kogan) and can't quite see which passage you mean...

 

[kabbes]

one?

would be good if it weren't so long (though the soloist is a bit up-and-down).

The is called Te Deum, I believe.

I finally remembered to check!

Yes, it's the first one. Ah, brings back happy memories!

You got Te Deum right too.

 

[Spymaster]

Te deum is an obvious choice as is Handels Hornpipe (Water Music).

Try also the Intermezzo to the Karelia Suite (Sibelius) - takes a while to kick in but it's recognisable but not heard often.

But I think you need trumpets at weddings so my choice though would be the 1st or 3rd movement from Brandenburg Concerto #2 (JS Bach) for a bit of funky baroque!

First:

Third:

 

[Spymaster]

(Can't knock a bit of Handel - got married to him myself - Toccata and Fugue in Dmin

That's by Bach, awesome piece but a strange choice for a wedding. Are you sure you don't mean something else?

 

[the button]

Vaughan Williams' setting of "Seventeen come Sunday".

 

[kabbes]

That's by Bach, awesome piece but a strange choice for a wedding. Are you sure you don't mean something else?

I heard that Tocotta & Fugue is actually the second most popular piece of music to walk down the aisle to!

 

[Spymaster]

I heard that Tocotta & Fugue is actually the second most popular piece of music to walk down the aisle to!

Really? Maybe for a laugh as the opening bars foretell impending doom to most!

It picks up after about 2.30 min but still wouldn't be my choice.

 

[kabbes]

Hey, I know the piece of music well enough. I learned to play it on the piano! My piano teacher, in fact, was one of the many people that chose it to walk up the aisle to (as she said, "it took a long time to get my man at that alter and I was damn well going to make the most of it").

It certainly seems like it would be an unusual choice, but apparently not.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Vaughan Williams' setting of "Seventeen come Sunday".

Hmm, we're in our forties.

The Brandenburg #2 is a possible, particuarly the third movement because it's a bit shorter. Trying to find stuff of a decent length is pretty hard unless you can get CDs which split it up for you, as it were - I'm not sure I want somebody just suddenly turning it off with a click! (Similar problem with which I'd really like.)

The Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite, which I've always liked, might be suitable for leaving the venue. (There's a few contenders in that line, including the final movement of Haydn's Cello Concerto in C major.)

 

[kabbes]

Hmm, we're in our forties.

The Brandenburg #2 is a possible, particuarly the third movement because it's a bit shorter. Trying to find stuff of a decent length is pretty hard unless you can get CDs which split it up for you, as it were - I'm not sure I want somebocy just suddenly turning it off with a click! (Similar problem with which I'd really like.)

We were lucky on this score -- one of our best friends is a professional trumpeter so we didn't need pre-recorded music and could leave it to his discretion. Do you know any musicians?

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Not really, and if we did they'd probably be a thousand miles away from the venue given that we live in Spain and the wedding's in Norfolk.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

The favourite for the register-signing music, by the way, is (which isn't all that classical but hey, I'm no dogmatist)

 

[Donna Ferentes]

ooh yes, that's lovely. Trumpets have a very joyous sound.

However, I think I got it wrong. It's the the Concerto for trumpet and two oboes, I want, it's the second movement of (as is the other concerto) but I'm not sure I can find it for sale anywhere.

 

[William of Walworth]

Can't help with the music, but would just like to say felicidades!

Seconded!

 

[Gmart]

How about the fugue from Benjamin Britten's, Young person's guide to the orchestra - beautiful!

 

[Donna Ferentes]

(last three minutes)

. Can't see it working meself

 

[Donna Ferentes]

We have a shortlist:

a. Telemann, (any of the movements except the third)

b. Haydn, (first movement)

c. JS Bach, (third movement)

d. Vivaldi, (first movement)

e. Sibelius, (intermezzo)

I've produced it, she decides.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

We have a winner....

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Thanks again, by the way, to everybody who assisted with this thread: I can assure people that everything that was suggested was listened to, except for a few piece which I already knew well.

Should anybody be interested, the other music we're proposing to use is:

Haydn, Cello Concerto No.1 in C Major ( as well)

Bob Dylan, t from John Wesley Harding

 

[Meltingpot]

The climax of Saint Saens' Organ Symphony is the most joyous classical piece (IMO) I know of, and I love it. The pop song "If I Had Words" was based on the tune.

 

[hipipol]

Handel - (she in the Bible - Song of Solomon) and its a well uplifting tune, if rather 17thc in style

Purcell -
Mozart -

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Kind of you both and I appreciate it: but we already have a winner, as per above.