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Music for Funerals

Below are some of our most requested non-religious pieces for funerals, memorials and celebrations of life. Please enquire if you would like further help deciding or for us to come up with some personalised suggestions.​

Looking for sacred music for a church funeral? Visit our church funeral music list here.

Where do I begin?

A funeral ceremony will generally feature:​

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- One piece at the start (often piano/organ)

- One or two pieces by the soloist or choir 

- One piece at the end (often piano/organ)​

 

​Here are some music suggestions, both popular and traditional. We book classically-trained singers and many of these pieces can be performed in a classical-crossover style.

Solo singer:

Lascia ch'io pianga - G F Handel​

O mio babbino caro - Puccini​

​Chanson triste - Duparc​

Edelweiss - Rodgers​

We'll Gather Lilacs - Ivor Novello​

The Flower Duet - Delibes (2 singers)

None But the Lonely Heart - Tchaikovsky

Fields of Gold - Sting​

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Harold Arlen​

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen​

O Danny Boy - Trad. Irish​

O Waly Waly ('The Water Is Wide') - Folksong arr. Britten​

Climb Ev'ry Mountain - Rodgers​

Con Te Partiro (Time to Say Goodbye) - Sartori​

We'll Meet Again - Ross Parker & Hughie Charles​​

You Raise Me Up - Luvland & Graham

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Choir:

​Soave Sia il Vento (from 'Cosi fan tutte') - Mozart (3 singers)​

O My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose - Traditional (arr. Simon Carrington) (8 singers minimum)​

You'll Never Walk Alone​

You Raise Me Up​

And So it Goes​

Goodnight, My Angel​

Goodnight Sweetheart

Piano/organ:

Nimrod (from 'Enigma Variations) - Elgar​

Meditation (from 'Thais') - Massenet​

Canon in D Major - Pachelbel​

Salut d'amour - Elgar​

I Giorni - Ludovico Einaudi

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