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String Quartets in Leamington

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Select Leamington String Quartets

A small selection of our string quartets across the UK is shown below. To find string quartets in Leamington 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:- Francesco Cilea (1866-1950; age 84); Stéphane Roy (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Shigeru Kan-no (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Vladimír Franz (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Ronald Caltabiano (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Ernst Toch (1887-1964; age 76); Hall (Francis) Johnson (1887-1970; age 82); Walter Rummel (1887-1953; age 65); Matthijs Vermeulen (1888-1967; age 79); Hugo Kauder (1888-1972; age 84); Erkki Sven Tüür (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Monrad Johansen (1888-1974; age 85);

String Quartets - Quotations.

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

The significance of chamber music is that in dealing with the intimate it can attain to the ineffable. Chamber music conceives itself as a world of sound that has external boundaries but no internal ones. Hans Werner Henze (1926— Music and Politics, 1982,’Instrumental Composition’, 1963

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Leamington

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

Kreisler – Leibeshed; Bach - Air on a G-string ; Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus; Bizet - Menuett from L'Arlesienne; Kreisler - Leibesfreud ; Bizet - Intermezzo and Adagietto; Cabaret; Let Me Try Again; Gershwin - I Got Rhythm; Misty; Spread a Little Happiness; Mozart - Magic Flute C)verture; 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; As Time Goes By; When I Fall in Love; Stardust; Autumn Leaves; Lara's Theme; Gounod - Ave Maria ; Mozart - 10 celebrated Quartets; Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5; Fauré – Pavanne; Mendelssohn - Midsummer night's Dream; Pachelbel - Canon in D; Puccini - Musetta's Waltz; Anthem from Chess; Scott Joplin - Roseleaf Rag; Cheek to Cheek; I Don't Know How To Love Him; Blue Moon; Mozart - Three Divertimenti ; Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze ; Handel - Hornpipe from the Water Music; Bizet - Habanera from Carmen; Mendelssohn - Wedding March; Boccherini - Minuet ; Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture;