Repertoire ideas
Just a small selection
Wedding
- Bach: Ave Maria
- Bach: Sheep may safely graze
- Bach: I follow with gladness
- Bach: Jesu, joy of man’s desiring
- Franck: Panis Angelicus
- Handel: Largo
- Handel: Ombra mai fu
- Handel: Where’er you walk
- Mascagni: Ave Maria – Cavalleria Rusticana
- Mozart: Agnus Dei (Mass in C)
- Mozart: Laudate Dominum (Solemn Vespers)
- Schubert: Ave Maria
Pop – Wedding
- Eva Cassidy – Songbird
- Christina Perri – A thousand years
- Elton John – Your Song
- Jerry Goldsmith – No one like you
- Morricone – Nella Fantasia
- Senza Catene – Unchained Melody
Funeral
- Abide with me
- Amazing Grace
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Pie Jesu (Requiem)
- Be still for the presence of the Lord
- Bach – Ave Maria
- Bette Midler – Wind beneath my wings, From a distance
- Desree – Life
- Eva Cassidy – Fields of Gold, Songbird
- Faure – Pie Jesu (Requiem)
- Franck – Panis Angelicus
- Goodall – The Lord is my shepherd (Vicar of Dibley)
- Liddle – How lovely are thy dwellings
- I’ll walk beside you
- Schubert – Ave Maria
- Somewhere over the rainbow – Judy Garland or Eva Cassidy versions
- Whitney Houston – One moment in time
- You raise me up
- You’ll never walk alone (Carousel)
Opera
- Bizet: Carmen – Habanera and Seguidilla
- Dvorak: Rusalka’s Song to the Moon
- Handel: Ombra mai fu
- Mozart: Porgi amor (Le Nozze di Figaro)
- Mozart: Non so piu (Le Nozze di Figaro)
- Mozart: Deh vieni non tardar (Le Nozze di Figaro)
- Mozart: Vedrai Carino (Don Giovanni)
- Mozart: Batti , batti (Don Giovanni)
- Mozart: La ci darem (Don Giovanni) – with baritone
- Puccini: O mio babbino caro
- Puccini: Si, mi chiamano Mimi (La Boheme)
- Puccini: Vissi D’arte (Tosca)
- Weber: Und ob die wolke Wedding Aria – Der Freischutz)
Musicals and Operetta
- Bernstein: West Side Story – I feel pretty, Somewhere
- Ellis: This is my lovely day (Bless the Bride)
- Gershwin: Various songs
- I could have danced all night (My Fair Lady)
- Jerome Kern: Can’t help loving that man (Showboat) and various other songs
- Lehar: Vilia (The Merry Widow)
- Lehar: Meine lippen sie kussen (Giuditta)
- Lloyd Webber: All I ask of you (Phantom of the Opera)
- Think of Me (Phantom)
- Love never dies
- Memory (Cats)
- Ivor Novello : We’ll gather lilacs (Perchance to dream)
- Waltz of My Heart
- Cole Porter: Various
- Sondheim: Losing my Mind (Follies)
- I dreamed a dream (Les Miserables)
- On my own (Les Miserables)
Crossover/Pop
- Abba: Various
- Celine Dion / Andrea Bocelli: The Prayer
- Elton John: Your Song
- Eva Cassidy (Songbird)
- Bob Dylan: Make you feel my love
- Jerry Goldsmith: No one like you
- Lloyd Webber: All I ask of you
- Bette Midler: Wings beneath my wings
- Morricone: Nella Fantasia (The Mission)
- North: Unchained Melody (Senza Catene)
- Quaranto: Con te partirò – as sung by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli
- Sting: Fields of Gold (and Eva Cassidy version)
- Petula Clark: Downtown
Trad (Scottish)
- An Eriskay Love Lilt
- The wee cooper of Fife
- The Queen Mairies
- Willie’s rare and Willie’s fair
- Kelvingrove
- Loch Lomond
- These are my mountains
Robert Burns
- Ae fond kiss
- A rosebud by my early walk
- Afton Water
- A highland lad
- Auld Lang syne
- Ca the yowes
- Comin’ through the Rye
- John Anderson, my jo
- My love is like a red, red rose
- O whistle and I’ll come tae ye my lad
- Scots wha hae
- The Birks of Aberfeldy
- Ye banks and braes
Trad (Irish)
- She moved through the Fair
- The lark in the Clear Air
- The Kerry Dance
- Danny Boy