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String Quartets in Leominster

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Select Leominster String Quartets

Here are some our string quartets in different parts of the UK. To find string quartets in Leominster select your county from the drop down box. This will show all of our 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:- Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909; age 57); Ciprian Porumbescu (1853-1883; age ca. 30); André-Charles Messager (1853-1929; age 75); George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931; age 76); Michael Repoulis (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); 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); Ian Crutchley (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:-

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 Leominster

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 - Our highly versatile String Quartets play for a wide spectrum of events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

Here are some examples of the 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;