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String Quartets in Port Talbot

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Select Port Talbot String Quartets

Below are a few of our string quartets across the UK. To find string quartets in Port Talbot select your county from the drop down box. This will take you to all of our 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:- Jason Uechi (1968-still alive 2003; age ca. 35); Roxanna Panufnik (1968-still alive 2003; age ca. 35); Pawel Lukaszewski (1968-still alive 2003; age ca. 35); Charles Coleman (1968-still alive 2003; age ca. 35); Tim Ewers (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Gregg Wager (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Igor Panov (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Michel Lysight (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Richard Strauss (1864-1949; age 85);

String Quartets - Quotations.

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

In came a fiddler—and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. Charles Dickens (1812—70) A Christnzas Carol, 1843

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Port Talbot

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

Cabaret; Let Me Try Again; Gershwin - I Got Rhythm; Misty; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; 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; Spread a Little Happiness; As Time Goes By; When I Fall in Love; Stardust; Autumn Leaves; Rossini - Italian Girl in Algiers Overture; Kreisler – Leibeshed; Bach - Air on a G-string ; Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus; Bizet - Menuett from L'Arlesienne; Kreisler - Leibesfreud ; Bizet - Intermezzo and Adagietto; Lara's Theme; Anthem from Chess; Scott Joplin - Roseleaf Rag; Cheek to Cheek; I Don't Know How To Love Him; 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; Blue Moon; With One Look; Gershwin - Let's Call the whole Thing Off; I Dreamed a Dream; Love Changes Everything; Gounod - Ave Maria ; Mozart - 10 celebrated Quartets;