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Wedding Quartets in  North London   

Find wedding quartets who perform in  North London  on our this web site of wedding music groups

See our  North London  Wedding Quartets

Below are a few of our wedding quartets across the UK. For wedding quartets in   North London  choose your county from the drop down box to see the wedding quartets that play in your area.

 
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Weddings, wedding quartets and composers

Most composers have written music for the Wedding Quartet, which was considered by many of them to the be the perfect musical ensemble. A few examples are given below, as illustrations:-  Wilhelm Olof Peterson-Berger (1867-1942; age 75); Jean-Baptiste Lemire (1867-1945; age 77); Charles Koechlin (1867-1950; age 83); Steven Finch (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Eric Funk (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Christopher Rouse (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda (1801-1866; age ca. 65); Gustav Albert Lortzing (1801-1851; age 49); Bernhard Molique (1802-1869; age ca. 67); Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802-1870; age 68); Hector Berlioz (1803-1869; age 65); Mehmet Aktug (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44);

 
 

Wedding Quartets - a quotation:  North London   

A sample of what has been written about wedding quartets:-

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  North London   

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

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - (by Jerome Kern); The Teddy Bears' Picnic; Thunderbirds; Suite from "CATS" - A Lloyd Webber; Borodin - First Polovtsian Dance; Capua - O Sole Mio; Elgar - Salut d'Amour ; Debussy - Clair de Lune; Mozart - Voi Che Sapette from The Marriage of Figaro; Delibes - Flower Duet from Lakmé; Ravel – Bolero; The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony; O Sole Mio - Rinaldo do Capua; The Londonderry Air; Country Club - Scott Joplin; Paragon Rag - Scott Joplin; Purcell - Two Rondeaux from Abdelazar and the Fairy Queen; Saint-Saens - The Swan from Carnival of the Animals; Dvorak - Humoresque ; Puccini - O Mio Babbino Caro; Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance No. VIII; Mozart - Rondo Alla Turca; Scott Joplin - The Entertainer ; Heliotrope Bouquet - Scott Joplin; Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin's New Rag - Scott Joplin; The Teddy Bears' Picnic - J Bratton; Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz; Elgar - Chanson de Matin; Handel - Departure of the Queen of Sheba; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285 Mozart; Elgar - Chanson de Nuit; Gossec - Tambourin ; Mozart - Eine Kleine Nacht Musik ; Suite from Oklahoma & The Sound of Music - Rogers & Hammerstein; Pennies from Heaven - A Johnson; Anything Goes - Cole Porter; Let's Do It - Cole Porter; The Folks Who Live on the Hill - Jerome Kern; Greensleeves; Handel - Allegro from Recorder Sonata;