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String Quartets in Billingham

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Select Billingham String Quartets

Below is a small selection of our string quartets across the UK. To find string quartets in Billingham 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:- Jostein Stalheim (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Rafael Peacan del Sar (1884-ca. 1954; age ca. 70); Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961; age 75); Alban Berg (1885-1935; age 50); Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916-1968; age 51); Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983; age 67); William Maxwell (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Giovanni Gualberto Brunetti (1706-1787; age ca. 81); Giovanni Battista Martini (1706-1784; age 78); Michel Corrette (1707-1795; age 87); Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708-1776; age 67); Pasquale Cafaro (1708-1787; age 79); Egidio Romualdo Duni (1708-1775; age 67); Milton Babbitt (1916-still alive 2003; age ca. 87); Bernard Stevens (1916-1983; age 66); Louis Toebosch (1916-still alive 2003; age ca. 87); Alfredo Schiuma (1885-1963; age ca. 78); Benjamin Dale (1885-1943; age 58); Charles Avison (1709-1770; age 61); Reine Jönsson (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Guy Cuyvers (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Harold Colin Cowherd (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Marc Anthony Turnage (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Detlev Glanert (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Christoph Schaffrath (1709-1763; age ca. 54); Edgar Varèse (1885-1965; age 79); Augustin Barrios (1885-1944; age ca. 59); Luigi Russolo (1885-1947; age 61); Arthur Lemba (1885-ca. 1955; age ca. 70); George Butterworth (1885-1916; age 31); Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789; age 79); Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784; age 73); Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736; age 26); Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778; age 67); Domenico Paradies (1710-1792; age ca. 82); Ignaz Holzbauer (1711-1783; age 71); Kevin Oldham (1960-1993; age 32); Henri Dutilleux (1916-still alive 2003; age ca. 87); Antonio Lauro (1917-1986; age 68); Isang Yun (1917-1995; age 78); Ugo Amendola (1917-1995; age 77); Hans Federico Neuman (1917-1992; age 74);

What has been said about String Quartets.

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

Despite Mozart’s gifts as a pianist, his favourite instrument was theviola—appropriately enough, for it lies at the heart of the string quartet. Alec Hyatt King (1911— Mozart Chamber Music, 1968

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Billingham

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;