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String Quartets in Redditch

Find string quartets who perform in Redditch on this music web site

Select Redditch String Quartets

Below is a small selection of our string quartets across the UK. To find string quartets in Redditch select your county from the drop down box. The best quartets are in demand and will not travel large distances.

Quotation and Booking

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Composers and string quartets

Many composers have written music specifically for the String Quartet. Some only wrote for the quartet once they had become experienced, considering the string quartet 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:- Jason Uechi (1968-still alive 2003; age ca. 35); Roxanna Panufnik (1968-still alive 2003; age ca. 35); Pawel Lukaszewski (1968-still alive 2003; age ca. 35); Charles Coleman (1968-still alive 2003; age ca. 35); Tim Ewers (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Gregg Wager (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Igor Panov (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Michel Lysight (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Richard Strauss (1864-1949; age 85);

What has been said about String Quartets.

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

‘E’en little things can yield a perfect pleasure, e’en little things can be supremely dear’—so run the lines of a Tuscan song beautifully set to music by Hugo Wolf. And of nothing is that so true as the ‘little things’ of chamber music. One finds in that field no necessary correlation between size and quality. Homer Ulrich (1906—

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Redditch

Weddings - Whether it is music for your wedding ceremony, the drinks reception or the wedding breakfast, our String Quartets are experienced setting the perfect ambience.

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 is some typical repertoire of our string quartets

TYPICAL REPERTOIRE FOR STRING QUARTETS

Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.7; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Autumn Leaves; Lara's Theme; Anthem from Chess; Scott Joplin - Roseleaf Rag; Cheek to Cheek; Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring; Elgar – Nimrnd; Handel - The arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Massenet – Meditarion; Rossinn - William Tell Overture; Haydn – Serenade; Rossini - Italian Girl in Algiers Overture; I Don't Know How To Love Him; Blue Moon; With One Look; Gershwin - Let's Call the whole Thing Off; I Dreamed a Dream; Kreisler – Leibeshed; Bach - Air on a G-string ; Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus; Bizet - Menuett from L'Arlesienne; Kreisler - Leibesfreud ; Bizet - Intermezzo and Adagietto; Mozart - Magic Flute C)verture; Love Changes Everything; Close Every Door (from 'Joseph'); On The Street Where You Live; Summertime; To Life (from 'Fiddler on the Roof); Clarke - Prince of Denmark's March; Mozart - 29th Symphony 1 ~ movt.; Debussy - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair; Mozart -3 Divertimenti; Borodin – Nocturne; Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Gounod - Ave Maria ; Fawlty Towers;