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:
- 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
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