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String Quartets in Hoddesdon

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Below are a few of our string quartets across the UK. To find string quartets in Hoddesdon select your county from the drop down box to view string quartets that play in your area.

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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:- Gerard Bunk (1888-1958; age 70); Josué Bonnín de Góngora (1970-still alive 2003; age ca. 33); Anthony Bonello (1970-still alive 2003; age ca. 33); Stefan Meylaers (1970-still alive 2003; age ca. 33); Norbert Wissing (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Steve Martland (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Robert Scott Thompson (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Annie Gosfield (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Jan Willem Frans Brandts Buys (1868-1933; age 65);

String Quartets - Quotations.

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

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 Hoddesdon

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

Here is some typical repertoire of our string quartets

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR STRING QUARTETS

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; Makin' Whoopee - (by Walter Donaldson); Molly on the Shore; The Muppet Show Theme; Gershwin - Summertime ; Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285b – Mozart; 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; Oasis – Wonderwall; Palladio - (by Karl Jenkins); Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - (by Jerome Kern); The Teddy Bears' Picnic; Thunderbirds; Ave Maria –Schubert –Schubert; 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 "CATS" - A Lloyd Webber; The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony; O Sole Mio - Rinaldo do Capua; The Londonderry Air; Country Club - Scott Joplin; Suite from the Dramatic Music of Henry Purcell –Purcell; Brandenburg Concerto No 3 -J S Bach; String Quartet K173 –Mozart; The Four Seasons – Spring –Vivaldi; String Quartet Op 77 no 1 - 1st movement –Haydn; Loure - J S Bach; String Quartet K169 –Mozart; Paragon Rag - Scott Joplin;