Essential book of Funeral Music for manuals

This generous collection includes fifty of the most popular and useful pieces for funerals and memorial services. They are arranged to be easily playable on manuals only, requiring the minimum of practice for the busy organist. Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 – Mahler

 Adagio for Strings – Barber

 Adagio from Clarinet Concerto – Mozart

 Adagio from Violin Concerto No. 1 – Bruch

 Air from Suite No. 3 – Bach

 Andante from Piano Concerto No. 21 -Mozart

Andante from String Quartet No. 1 – Schubert

Andante tranquilo – Warlock

 Angel’s farewell from ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ – Elgar

 Autumn from ‘The Four Seasons’ – Vivaldi

Ave Maria – Bach/Gounod

Ave verum corpus – Mozart

Bist du bei mir – Bach

Canon in D – Pachelbel

Cantique de Jean Racine – Fauré

 Cujus animam – Rossini

Fare well – Lloyd

Flowers of Remembrance – Moore

God be in my head – Davies

How lovely are thy dwellings from ‘Requiem’ – Brahms

 I know that my Redeemer liveth from ‘Messiah’ – Handel

Jerusalem – Parry

Jesu, joy of man’s desiring – Bach

Jupiter from ‘The Planets’ – Holst

Komm, süsser Tod – Bach

Largo from ‘Serse’ – Handel

Largo from Concerto in D minor – Vivaldi

Lux perpetua – Mawby

Meditation from ‘Thaïs’ – Massenet

Miserere – Allegri

Morning from ‘Peer Gynt’ – Grieg

Nimrod – Elgar

O for the wings of a dove – Mendelssohn

O my soul rejoice with gladness – Karg-Elert

 O rest in the Lord from ‘Elijah’ – Mendelssohn

 Panis angelicus – Franck

Pavane – Fauré

Pavane pour une infante défunte – Ravel

 Pie Jesu from ‘Requiem’ – Fauré

 Prelude on ‘Abide with me’ (Eventide) –

Archer Prelude on ‘Be thou my vision’ (Slane) –

 Nixon Prelude on ‘The day thou gavest’ (St Clement) -Fletchr

 Second movement from ‘Pathétique’ Sonata – Beethoven

 Second movement from Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’ – Dvor?ák

 Shalom – Warren

Solemn melody – Davies

Sweet sorrow – Lloyd

Theme from ‘Finlandia’ – Sibelius

Urlicht from Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’ – Mahler

When I am laid in earth – Purcell