The Listenary

It's graduation season. Wedding season is upon us. I feel a processional coming on. Since I'm playing the organ this year for a graduation, I did a review of my processional/recessional choices. Here are my favorites:

• Largo in E-flat Major, B. 109 -- Frederic Chopin
• French Suites for Piano, Suite V, Gavotte in G Major, BWV 816 -- Johann Sebastain Bach
• Six Sonatinas, No. 4, Andante con espressione in B-flat Major, K. 439b -- Muzio Clementi
• Six Ecossaises in E-flat Major, WoO 83 -- Ludwig van Beethoven
• Viennese Sonatinas, No. 1, Adagio in F Major, K 439b -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Pomp and Circumstance -- Edward Elgar
• Sonata No. 2 for Solo Violin, Andante in A Minor, BWV 1003 -- Johann Sebastian Bach
• Prelude No. 20, Largo in C Minor, Op. 28, No. 20 -- Frederic Chopin

Here are some other popular favorites for which neither I nor the arrangements I found seem to do justice to the original sound. I would do them in my impoverished arrangements if requested.

• Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major -- Johann Sebastian Bach
• Trumpet Tune -- Henry Purcell/Jeremiah Clarke
• Arioso, Sinfonia from Cantata N. 156 -- Johann Sebastian Bach
• Air from Water Music -- George Frideric Handel
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring -- Johann Sebastian Bach
• Sheep May Safely Graze -- Johann Sebastian Bach
• Toccata in D Minor -- Johann Sebastian Bach
• Symphony No. 9, Ode to Joy -- Beethoven/Liszt

And here are a few extra tunes that might work for less formal prelude/postlude:

• Ave Verum -- Mozart
• The Heavens Are Declaring -- Beethoven
• Judas Maccabeus ("Thine Is the Glory") -- Handel
• Creation ("The Spacious Firmament") -- Haydn
• Auld Lang Syne -- Scotch Air