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Wedding Quartets in Basildon
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A small selection of our wedding quartets across the UK is shown below. To find wedding quartets in Basildon choose your county from the drop down box to see the wedding quartets that play in your area.
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Wedding music, composers and wedding quartetsA 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:- Javier Busto (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Carson Kievman (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Michel Waisvisz (1949-still alive 2003; age ca. 54); Juan Pedro Esnaola (1808-1878; age ca. 70); Henri Cohen (1808-1880; age ca. 72); Annie Gosfield (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Jan Willem Frans Brandts Buys (1868-1933; age 65); Max von Schillings (1868-1933; age 65); Juventino Rosas (1868-1894; age ca. 26); Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868-1952; age 84); Franz Schubert (2) (1808-1878; age ca. 70); Sebastián de Yradier|Iradier (1809-1865; age ca. 56); Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847; age 38); |
Wedding Quartets - a quotation: Basildon
A sample of what has been written about wedding quartets:-
[Of quartets:] You listen to four sensible persons conversing, you profit from their discourse, and you get to know the peculiar properties of their several instruments. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) Quoted in Barzun (ed), Pleasures ofMusü; 1952
Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Basildon
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;