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String Quartets in Banbury

A selection of string quartets in Banbury on our this web site of quartets and other music groups

Select Banbury String Quartets

Here are some our string quartets in different parts of the UK. To find string quartets in Banbury select your county from the drop down box. This will show all of our string quartets that play in your area.

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Composers through the ages and string quartets

Some composers considered the string quartet to the be the perfect musical ensemble and wrote some of their best works for the quartet. Other musical works have been transcribed for he quartet, including orchestral, vocal and even pop and jazz pieces. A few examples are given below, as illustrations:- Gordon Kerry (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42); Hakan Olsson (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42); Mary Finsterer (1962-still alive 2003; age ca. 41); John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951; age 75); Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948; age 72); Musa Gocmen (1974-still alive 2003; age ca. 29); Peter Warlock (1894-1930; age 36); Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950; age 55); Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942; age 48); Paul Ludvig Irgens Jensen (1894-1969; age 74); Jens Laurson Emborg (1876-1957; age ca. 81); Louis Aubert (1877-1968; age 90); Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz (1877-1952; age 75); Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933; age 55);

What has been said about String Quartets.

Much has been written about string quartets and their instruments. Here are some quotations:-

Chamber music is at once one of the most enjoyable and the most dignified of literatures. The musical amateur often makes it his hobby and considers it the mainspring of his musical existence . . . The professional musician turns to it for relaxation and for a kind of pleasure that no other field offers. Homer Ulrich (1906— Chamber Music 1948)

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Banbury

Weddings - With one of our String Quartets you can be confident of that your special day will be made even more memorable with music for your wedding ceremony, drinks reception or wedding breakfast.

You can hear samples of our quartets, online

Corporate & Parties - Our highly versatile String Quartets play for a wide spectrum of events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

Here are some examples of the repertoire of our string quartets

TYPICAL REPERTOIRE FOR STRING QUARTETS

Scott Joplin - Ragtime Dance; Czardas; The Entertainer; Thunderbirds; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance No. VIII; Mozart - Rondo Alla Turca; Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz; Elgar - Chanson de Matin; Handel - Departure of the Queen of Sheba; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285 Mozart; Elgar - Chanson de Nuit; Leroy Anderson - Fiddle-Faddle; The Beatles - Penny Lane; Bernstein - Maria from West Side Story; Carillon; Cock Linnet; Gossec - Tambourin ; Mozart - Eine Kleine Nacht Musik ; Greensleeves; Handel - Allegro from Recorder Sonata; Purcell - Trumpet Tune; Jerusalem; Massenet - Meditation from Thais; Danny Boy; Gershwin - S'Wonderful; I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside; Scott Joplin – Bethena; Scott Joplin - Country Club; Pachelbel – Canon; Puccini - Nessun Dorma; Rossini - William Tell Overture; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K298 – Mozart; Smetana - Dance of the Comedians; Pachelbel's Canon & Gigue [Full version] – Pachelbel; Sullivan - Three Little Maids from School are We; Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter; Scott Joplin - The Easy Winners; Knight Rider Theme; Leaning on a Lamppost; Let's Do It - (by Cole Porter); Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite; Verdi - Drinking Song from La Traviata;