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String Quartets in Kent

Find string quartets available in Kent on our national live music database

Select Kent String Quartets

A small selection of our string quartets across the UK is shown below. To find string quartets in Kent select your county from the drop down box to view string quartets that play in your area.

Quotation and Booking

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Composers throughout history and string quartets

Most composers have written music for the String Quartet, which was considered by many of them to the be the perfect musical ensemble. 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:- Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981; age 53); Sayat Nova (1712-1795; age ca. 83); Friedrich II der Grosse (the Great) (1712-1786; age 74); Alicia Terzian (1936-still alive 2003; age ca. 67); Juan José Falcon Sanabria (1936-still alive 2003; age ca. 67); Vic Nees (1936-still alive 2003; age ca. 67); Jacob Druckman (1928-1996; age 67); Jean-Michel Damase (1928-still alive 2003; age ca. 75); Anatolii Lyadov (1855-1914; age 59); George Edwuard Bonsor Saint Martin (1855-1930; age ca. 75);

String Quartets - Quotations.

An example of what has been written about string quartets. A Quotation:-

The first requisite for a good ensemble is that each player shall have the sense of the whole. This he can only feel by listening to the others—constantly, whether he knows the music or is reading at sight. With practice, then, he becomes familiar with the other parts and is ready to adjust himself to them or to assert himself so that they can adjust themselves to him, but be can never afford to stop listening. Only by remaining acutely aware of what is being done about him can he be sensitized to the necessary degree

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Kent

Weddings - Our String Quartets can set just the right atmosphere for your wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast.

You can hear samples of our quartets, online

Corporate & Parties - Whatever your corporate event or party is for, our highly versatile String Quartets will have the right music for the occasion.

Here are some examples of the repertoire of our string quartets

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR STRING QUARTETS

Charade – Mancini; Days of Wine & Roses – Mancini; Every Time We Say Good-Bye - Cole Porter; Guantanamera; Rondo alla Turca, from Sonata K331 – Mozart; Simple Symphony – Britten; Standchen – Schubert; String Quartet K155 – Mozart; Suite No 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 - J S Bach; The Four Seasons – Winter – Vivaldi; The Lark Ascending - Vaughan Williams; I Love You Samantha - Cole Porter; Just Another Rhumba – Gershwin; La Bamba; Maggie's Theme [from the Thorn Birds] – Mancini; Match of the Day; Traumerei – Schumann; Waltz op 12 – Grieg; Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no.3; Bizet - Carmen Suite; Ponchielh - Dance of the Hours; Ravel – Bolero; Barber - Adagio for Strings; Pie In The Dace Polka [from the Great Race] – Mancini; Roast Beef of Old England [Military]; Singing in the Rain; Somethin's Comin' – Bernstein; Song from "10" [It's Easy to Say] – Mancini; Brahms - Hungarian Dances nos. 5 and 6; Beethoven - Symphony no.1 2nd movt.; Chopin – Valse; Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.7; String Boogie - Phil Green; The Inspector Clouseau Theme – Mancini; The Way You Look Tonight; Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger; Anything Goes; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring;