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Wedding Quartets in  Doncaster   

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

See our  Doncaster  Wedding Quartets

Below are a few of our wedding quartets across the UK. For wedding quartets in   Doncaster  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 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:-  Frederick Corder (1852-1932; age 80); Virtú Maragno (1928-still alive 2003; age ca. 75); Carl (Karl) Boehm|Bohm (1928-still alive 2003; age ca. 75); Donald Cochrane (1928-still alive 2003; age ca. 75); Peter Richard Tahourdin (1928-still alive 2003; age ca. 75); Jean Barraque (1928-1973; age 45); Charles Stanford (1852-1924; age 71); Christoph Schaffrath (1709-1763; age ca. 54); Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789; age 79); Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784; age 73); Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736; age 26); Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778; age 67);

 
 

Wedding Quartets - a quotation:  Doncaster   

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

I am quite at your service to play second fiddle in all your laudable enterprises. Alain René Lesage (1668—1747) Gil BIas, 1715—35, trans Malkin, 1809

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Doncaster   

Weddings - During the wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast, our Wedding Quartets can set just the right atmosphere for your .

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

Arrival of the Queen of Sheba –Handel; Air from the Water Music –Handel; Le Rejouissance –Handel; Suite from the Dramatic Music of Henry Purcell –Purcell; Brandenburg Concerto No 3 -J S Bach; Theme Song from Molly Maguires – Mancini; When I'm 64 – McCartney; They Didn't Believe Me; And I love Her – McCartney; Moon River – Mancini; String Quartet K173 –Mozart; The Four Seasons – Spring –Vivaldi; String Quartet Op 77 no 1 - 1st movement –Haydn; Loure - J S Bach; String Quartet K169 –Mozart; Nutcracker Suite – Overture –Tchaikowsky; Ave Maria -Schubert; The Thorn Birds Theme – Mancini; Here There & Everywhere – McCartney; Maria from West Side Story – Bernstein; Girl – McCartney; She Loves You – McCartney; String Quartet K172 –Mozart; Nutcracker Suite – Trepak – Tchaikowsky; Pavane Faure; Nessun Dorma Puccini; String Quartet K158 –Mozart; O Mio Babino Caro – Puccini; Polovstian Dance – Borodin; I Will – McCartney; Here Comes the Sun – McCartney; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square – Sherwin; Baby Elephant Walk – Mancini; Charade – Mancini; Clair de Lu - Debussy; Humoreske – Dvorak; String Quartet K298 – Mozart; Morning – Grieg; String Quartet K159 – Mozart; Flower Duet from Lakme – Delibes; Wedding Day at Troldhaugen – Grieg; Days of Wine & Roses – Mancini;