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Wedding Quartets in  East Midlands   

Find wedding quartets available in  East Midlands  on our live wedding music website

See our  East Midlands  Wedding Quartets

Below are a selection of our wedding quartets across the UK. To locate wedding quartets in   East Midlands  find your county in the drop down box. This will take you to all of our wedding quartets that play in your locality.

 
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Wedding music, composers and wedding quartets

Some composers considered the wedding quartet to the be the perfect musical ensemble and wrote some of their best works for the quartet. 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:-  Woody Norvell (1948-still alive 2003; age ca. 55); Claude Engel (1948-still alive 2003; age ca. 55); Dan Welcher (1948-still alive 2003; age ca. 55); Tommy Fowler (1948-still alive 2003; age ca. 55); Heinrich Marschner (1795-1861; age 66); Paul Dukas (1865-1935; age 69); Albéric Magnard (1865-1914; age 49); Carl Nielsen (1865-1931; age 66); Paul Lincke (1866-1946; age 79); Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (1866-1901; age 34); Saverio Rafaele Mercadante (1795-1870; age 75); Franz Berwald (1796-1868; age 71); Carl Loewe (1796-1869; age 72);

 
 

A quote for Wedding Quartets.  East Midlands   

Wedding Quartets and similar ensembles have been mentioned in novels and plays. Here are some quotations:-

Is it not strange that sheeps’ guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies? (Benedict) William Shakespeare (1564—1616) Much Ado About Nothing, 1598, Act 11, Sc ill

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  East Midlands   

Wedding - With one of our Wedding Quartets you can be sure that your special day will be made even more special with music during the wedding ceremony, drinks reception or wedding breakfast.

You can hear samples of our quartets, online

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

 
   Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding quartets   

WEDDING QUARTETS - TYPICAL REPERTOIRE

Purcell - Trumpet Tune; Jerusalem; Massenet - Meditation from Thais; Pachelbel – Canon; Puccini - Nessun Dorma; My Funny Valentine - Richard Rogers; Suite from South Pacific & The King & I - Rogers & Hammerstein; Makin' Whoopee – Donaldson; When I Fall In Love; Love Changes Everything - from Aspects of Love; Rossini - William Tell Overture; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K298 – Mozart; Smetana - Dance of the Comedians; Pachelbel's Canon & Gigue [Full version] – Pachelbel; Sullivan - Three Little Maids from School are We; Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite; Verdi - Drinking Song from La Traviata; Autumn Leaves; I Know Him So Well - Anderson, Rice, Ulvaeus; Summertime – Gershwin; It Ain't Necessarily So – Gershwin; Beer Barrel Polka; 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; Air on a G String, Gavotte, Bouree, Gigue -J S Bach; I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' – Gershwin; Theme Song from Molly Maguires – Mancini; When I'm 64 – McCartney; They Didn't Believe Me; And I love Her – McCartney; 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; String Quartet K370 –Mozart; Moon River – Mancini;