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Wedding Quartets in  Lanarkshire   

Find wedding quartets available in  Lanarkshire  on our live wedding music website

See our  Lanarkshire  Wedding Quartets

Below are a selection of our wedding quartets across the UK. To locate wedding quartets in   Lanarkshire  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 quartets and composers

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:-  James Dillon (1950-still alive 2003; age ca. 53); Richard Cooke (1950-still alive 2003; age ca. 53); Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814-1865; age 51); Mihaly Mosonyi (1814-1870; age ca. 56); Josephine Lang (1815-1880; age 65); Andrew Ladd (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Jos (Jozef Johannes Helena) Smeets (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894; age 24); Cornelis Dopper (1870-1939; age 69); Louis Vierne (1870-1937; age 66); Robert Volkmann (1815-1883; age 68); Robert Franz (1815-1892; age 77); William Sterndale Bennett

 
 

A quote for Wedding Quartets.  Lanarkshire   

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

The gentlemen in private meeting . . . played three, four and five parts with viols . . . and they esteemed a violin to be an instrument only belonging to a common fiddler, and could not endure that it should come among them for fear of making their meetings to be vain and fiddling. Anthony Wood (1632—95) Antiquities, 1674

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Lanarkshire   

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

Spanish Dance; Brazilian Fiddler; Pasadena; Jealousy Tango; Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no.3; Bizet - Carmen Suite; Ponchielh - Dance of the Hours; Ravel – Bolero; Barber - Adagio for Strings; Brahms - Hungarian Dances nos. 5 and 6; Beethoven - Symphony no.1 2nd movt.; Making Whoopee; Sunrise, Sunset; if You Knew Susie; Dad's Army; Moonlight and Roses; Chopin – Valse; Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.7; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring; Scott Joplin - Ragtime Dance; Czardas; The Entertainer; Thunderbirds; Leroy Anderson - Fiddle-Faddle; Elgar – Nimrnd; Handel - The arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Massenet – Meditarion; Rossinn - William Tell Overture; Haydn – Serenade; Rossini - Italian Girl in Algiers Overture; Kreisler – Leibeshed; The Beatles - Penny Lane; Bernstein - Maria from West Side Story; Carillon; Cock Linnet; Danny Boy; Bach - Air on a G-string ; Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus;