Ladies in Lavender
Longtime friend, colleague and great violist April Kondrat - tracking down sheet music for her daughter’s wedding - provided the necessary incentive for a string quartet arrangement of the “Ladies in Lavender” theme. The 2004 film’s original score was written by Nigel Hess and performed by Joshua Bell and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
While the music takes perhaps some inspiration from Massenet’s “Meditation from Thais”, it has sentiment, mood and cinematic sweep distinctively its own and would be quite perfect for a super romantic processional of family members and attendants, especially if timed out well with the music’s arc.
Listen to Joshua Bell’s great performance: