Violin Wedding Music

Violin wedding music can be a lovely addition to your wedding. For example, who can deny the elegance of Massenet's Meditation?

While a violin can certainly be played as a solo instrument, it is most often accompanied by another instrument such as a piano, harp or as part of a string quartet. The reason is obvious: it creates a more full and complete sound.

Regarding CDs, perhaps my favorite violin wedding music CD is Gary Schnitzer's I Do . In my opinion, it contains a terrific mix of 16 traditional-sounding classical and pop songs and features the violin joined by guitar, string quartet, piano and bass. Really nice!

The Aaron Meyer and Bill Lamb Wedding Music CD features a mix of some well-known and not-so-well-known wedding music in a unique contemporary style that the artists refer to as classical crossover----a melding of pop and classical styles. Again, while the violin is the predominant instrument, it is assisted by the guitar and piano with orchestral accompaniment. Great to check out if you're looking for something different.

A self-proclaimed romantic, Pip Clarke's CD entitled After A Dream is another CD to consider. While not specifically designated as a wedding CD, it is nonetheless suitable as such. It features 17 classical-in-nature songs arranged for violin and piano.

If you like violinist Joshua Bell, his CD Romance Of The Violin features 13 songs that could also be appropriate as wedding music.

Regarding violin wedding music in printed form, The Violinist's Wedding Album for Violin and Keyboard is a book to consider. At 90 pages long, it contains an excellent song selection of 22 well-known classical pieces often used for weddings. Also, Sheet Music Plus provides a "look inside" feature which allows you to view a couple of pages up close so you can see the arrangement and get an idea of the degree of difficulty, etc. In addition, there are even sound links that allow you to listen to excerpts of 3 actual arrangements that are in the book.

37 Violin Pieces You Like To Play is another book containing violin and piano arrangements, many of which are appropriate to a wedding. Once again, Sheet Music Plus provides the "look inside" feature to view a couple of pages up close.

Though not wedding CDs, if you are looking for Christian hymns CDs for your wedding played by the violin and piano, consider The Lord Is My Shepherd by violinist David Kim which features 22 uniquely arranged songs---all with song clips.

On Wings Of The Wind is a violin and piano CD that contains 11 well-known hymn arrangments. If you like the classical style, you should like this one.

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