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String Quartets in Mansfield

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Select Mansfield String Quartets

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

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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:- Virgil Thomson (1896-1989; age 93); Hekel Tavares (1896-1969; age 72); Ernest Steffan (1896-1967; age 71); Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963; age ca. 67); John Herbert Foulds (1880-1939; age 58); Guillermo Uribe-Holguín (1880-1971; age 91); Carlos López Buchardo (1881-1948; age ca. 67); Béla Bartók (1881-1945; age 64); George Enescu (1881-1955; age 73); Edvin Kallstenius (1881-1967; age 86); Jan van Gilse (1881-1944; age ca. 63); Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970; age 73); Lev Zhurbin (1978-still alive 2003; age ca. 25); Mathew Alexander Lowes (1978-still alive 2003; age ca. 25); Ben Hunter (1978-still alive 2003; age ca. 25); Gianluca Cangemi (1979-still alive 2003; age ca. 24); Alejandro Simonovich (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Osmo Tapio Räihälä (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Brian Sager (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Mark Argent (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Shawn Patterson (1965-still alive 2003; age ca. 38); Nikolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky (1881-1950; age 69); Sem Dresden (1881-1957; age 76); Marcus Hoffman (1979-still alive 2003; age ca. 24); Carlo Taube (1897-1944; age ca. 47); Arnaldo D'Espósito (1897-1945; age ca. 48); Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984; age ca. 87); Luis Gianneo (1897-1968; age ca. 71); Ignaz Friedman (1882-1948; age 65); Manuel Maria Ponce (1882-1948; age 65); Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961; age 78); Joseph Marx (1882-1964; age 82); Haydn Wood (1882-1959; age 76); Jurgen De Pillecyn (1965-still alive 2003; age ca. 38); Kevin Franz Josef Harris (1965-still alive 2003; age ca. 38); Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957; age 60); Johannes Weyrauch (1897-1977; age 80); Francisco Paolo Mignone (1897-1986; age 88); Xabier Oianguren (1979-still alive 2003; age ca. 24); Barry Griffin (1979-still alive 2003; age ca. 24); Ian Crutchley (1965-still alive 2003; age ca. 38); Marcelo Fortuna (1965-still alive 2003; age ca. 38);

What has been said about String Quartets.

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

There are in the music of the violin . accents so closely akin to those of certain contralto voices that one has the illusion that a singer has taken her place amid the orchestra. One raises one’s eyes, and sees only the wooden case, delicate as a Chinese box, but at moments, one is still tricked by the Siren’s deceiving call; at times too, one thinks one is listening to a captive genie struggling in the darkness of the sapient, quivering and enchanted box, like a devil immersed in a stoup of holy water; sometimes, again, it is in the air, at large, like a pure and supernatural being that unfolds its invisible message as it goes by. (Swann in Love) Marcel Proust (1871 —1922)

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Mansfield

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

Oasis – Wonderwall; Palladio - (by Karl Jenkins); Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - (by Jerome Kern); The Teddy Bears' Picnic; Verdi - Drinking Song from La Traviata; Vivaldi - The Four Seasons; Wagner - Here Comes the Bride; For He's A Jolly Good Fellow; Nutcracker Suite – March – Tchaikowsky; Flute & String Quartet op 3 no 1 – Haydn; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285b – Mozart; Thunderbirds; Suite from "CATS" - A Lloyd Webber; The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony; O Sole Mio - Rinaldo do Capua; The Londonderry Air; Air on a G String, Gavotte, Bouree, Gigue -J S Bach; Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince of Denmark's Marh) -J Clarke; Nutcracker Suite - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy –Tchaikowsky; Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orfeo Act 2) -C W von Gluck; Pachelbel's Canon [short version] –Pachelbel; Nutcracker Suite - Waltz of the Flowers –Tchaikowsky; Ave Maria –Schubert –Schubert; Country Club - Scott Joplin; Paragon Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin - The Entertainer ; Heliotrope Bouquet - Scott Joplin; Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin; String Quartet K370 –Mozart; String Quartet K285 –Mozart; Hornpipe from the Water Music –Handel; Arrival of the Queen of Sheba –Handel; Air from the Water Music –Handel; Le Rejouissance –Handel; Suite from the Dramatic Music of Henry Purcell –Purcell; Scott Joplin's New Rag - Scott Joplin; The Teddy Bears' Picnic - J Bratton; Suite from Oklahoma & The Sound of Music - Rogers & Hammerstein; Pennies from Heaven - A Johnson; Anything Goes - Cole Porter; Brandenburg Concerto No 3 -J S Bach; String Quartet K173 –Mozart;