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Wedding Quartets in Middlesbrough

Find wedding quartets who perform in Middlesbrough 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 Middlesbrough 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

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:- Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951; age 76); Francesco Paolo Neglia (1874-1932; age ca. 58); Josef Suk (1874-1935; age ca. 61); Paul Pierné (1874-1952; age 77); Woldemar Bargiel (1828-1897; age ca. 69); Otto Goldschmidt (1829-1907; age 77); Horace Poussard (1829-1898; age 69); Heinrich R. Lichner (1829-1898; age ca. 69); Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894; age 64); Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869; age 40); Luis Diego Herra-Rodriguez (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Franz Schmidt (1874-1939; age 64); Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947; age 72); Erik Oña (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42); Peter Zagar (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42);

Wedding Quartets - a quotation: Middlesbrough

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

From this did Paganini comb the fierce; Electric sparks, or to tenuity; Pull forth the inmost wailing of the wire; No cat-gut could swoon out so much of soul! Robert Browning (18 12—89) Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, 1873

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Middlesbrough

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;