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Wedding Quartets in Canterbury
Find wedding quartets who perform in Canterbury on our this web site of wedding music groups
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Below are a few of our wedding quartets across the UK. For wedding quartets in Canterbury choose your county from the drop down box to see the wedding quartets that play in your area.
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Composers through history - wedding quartetsSome composers have written music specifically for weddings, other have had their compositions become a part of the wedding repertoire. The majority of such works have been arranged for use by wedding quartets. . A few examples are given below, as illustrations:- Matthias Maute (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941; age 62); John Ireland (1879-1962; age 82); Rhené-Bâton (1879-1940; age 61); Nikolay Nikolayevitch Lodyzhensky (1843-1916; age 73); Asger Hamerik (1843-1923; age 80); Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843-1900; age 57); Hermann Schröder (2) (1843-1909; age 65); Michael Daugherty (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Beat Furrer (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Arturo Rodas (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Alma Schindler|Mahler (1879-1964; age 85); Peter van Anrooy (1879-1954; age 75); Herbert Hamilton Harty (1879-1941; age 61); Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936; age 56); John Reager (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Tobias Picker (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Carl Vine (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Carl Michael Ziehrer (1843-1922; age ca. 79); Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907; age 64); Pablo Martin Melinton Sarasate de Navasquez (1844-1908; age 64); Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908; age 64); Charles Marie Widor (1844-1937; age 93); Steve Markowitz (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Lansing McLoskey (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); David Dzubay (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Augusta Read Thomas (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Otto Olsson (1879-1964; age 84); Carl Bohm (1844-1920; age ca. 76); Andreas Hallén (1844-1925; age ca. 81); Alvaro Cordero (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Jeff Talman (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Thomas Demenga (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); William Webster-Garman (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Joel-Francois Durand (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Jean Cras (1879-1932; age ca. 53); Natanael Berg (1879-1957; age ca. 78); Maurice Delage (1879-1961; age 81); Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879-1953; age ca. 74); Frank Bridge (1879-1941; age 61); Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900; age ca. 56); Eugène Gigout (1844-1925; age 81); |
Wedding Quartets - a quotation: Canterbury
A sample of what has been written about wedding quartets:-
From this did Paganini comb the fierce; Electric sparks, or to tenuity; Pull forth the inmost wailing of the wire; No cat-gut could swoon out so much of soul! Robert Browning (18 12—89) Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, 1873
Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Canterbury
Weddings - Create the perfect ambience for the wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast with one of our Wedding Quartets.
You can hear samples of our quartets, online
Corporate & Parties - Our highly versatile Wedding Quartets also play for a wide spectrum of non wedding events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets
Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding quartets
EXAMPLES OF A WEDDING QUARTETS REPERTOIRE
I Don't Know How To Love Him; Blue Moon; With One Look; Gershwin - Let's Call the whole Thing Off; Beethoven - Symphony no.1 2nd movt.; Chopin – Valse; Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.7; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; I Dreamed a Dream; Love Changes Everything; Close Every Door (from 'Joseph'); On The Street Where You Live; Summertime; 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; To Life (from 'Fiddler on the Roof); Fawlty Towers; Tango Por Una Cabeza – Gardel; El Relicario – Padilla; Spanish Dance; 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; Brazilian Fiddler; Pasadena; Jealousy Tango; Making Whoopee; Sunrise, Sunset; Clarke - Prince of Denmark's March; Mozart - 29th Symphony 1 ~ movt.;