Warner's album, Music for a Royal Wedding, was released in time to coincide with the wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton in the spring 2011. It includes a wide assortment of pieces that have been played or sung "at the wedding services of every British royal from Queen Victoria to the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana." (It would have been an intriguing trove of trivia if the notes told which pieces were played at whose weddings.) As it is, the compilation is a fairly predictable collection of ...
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Warner's album, Music for a Royal Wedding, was released in time to coincide with the wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton in the spring 2011. It includes a wide assortment of pieces that have been played or sung "at the wedding services of every British royal from Queen Victoria to the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana." (It would have been an intriguing trove of trivia if the notes told which pieces were played at whose weddings.) As it is, the compilation is a fairly predictable collection of music associated with weddings and all the standards are here. The most outré selection is "Nessun dorma," from Puccini's opera Turandot, sung here by Luciano Pavarotti. It certainly has a sweepingly romantic tone, but anyone who used it at a wedding must have been counting on the fact that no one would actually know what the tenor is singing about. There's an error in the track listings: track four promises the Adagio from Tomaso Albinoni's very obscure Concerto for trumpet and...
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