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Wedding Quartets in  Shrewsbury   

Find wedding quartets who perform in  Shrewsbury  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   Shrewsbury  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

A wedding quartet is really a string quartet whose repertoire is suitable for use at weddings. 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. A few examples are given below, as illustrations:-  Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897; age 35); Rand Steiger (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); Gheorghi Arnaoudov (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); Aris Carastathis (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); Thomas Oboe Lee (1945-still alive 2003; age ca. 58); Stephen Truelove (1946-still alive 2003; age ca. 57); Peter Lieberson (1946-still alive 2003; age ca. 57); Peteris Vasks (1946-still alive 2003; age ca. 57); Ludwig Berger (1777-1838; age 60); Johann Gottlob Werner (1777-1822; age ca. 45); Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837; age 58); Hans van Eck (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Annette Kruisbrink (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Frederick Delius (1862-1934; age 72); Claude Debussy (1862-1918; age 55); Johan Wagenaar (1862-1941; age 78);

 
 

Wedding Quartets - a quotation:  Shrewsbury   

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

The trombone and side-drums in the chamber music of Stravinsky will do well enough in a very smart house-party where all the conversation is carried on in an esoteric family slang and the guests are expected to enjoy booby-traps. Donald Francis Tovev (1875—1940)

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Shrewsbury   

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

 
   Some examples of the 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;