I feel a processional coming on! Since I'm playing the organ for a graduation, I did a review of my processional/recessional choices. Here are my favorites:

  • Largo in E-flat Major, B. 109 -- Frederic Chopin
  • French Suites for Piano, Suite V, Gavotte in G Major, BWV 816 -- Johann Sebastain Bach
  • Six Sonatinas, No. 4, Andante con espressione in B-flat Major, K. 439b -- Muzio Clementi
  • Six Ecossaises in E-flat Major, WoO 83 -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Viennese Sonatinas, No. 1, Adagio in F Major, K 439b -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Sonata No. 2 for Solo Violin, Andante in A Minor, BWV 1003 -- Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Prelude No. 20, Largo in C Minor, Op. 28, No. 20 -- Frederic Chopin
  • Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major -- Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Trumpet Tune -- Henry Purcell/Jeremiah Clarke
  • Arioso, Sinfonia from Cantata N. 156 -- Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Pomp and Circumstance -- Edward Elgar

And here are a few extra tunes that might work for less formal prelude/postlude:

  • Ave Verum -- Mozart
  • The Heavens Are Declaring -- Beethoven
  • Judas Maccabeus ("Thine Is the Glory") -- Handel
  • Creation ("The Spacious Firmament") -- Haydn
  • Auld Lang Syne -- Scotch Air