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Wedding Quartets in  The North   

See and hear the wedding quartets in  The North  on this UK wide website of wedding musicians

See our  The North  Wedding Quartets

A small selection of our wedding quartets across the UK is shown below. To find wedding quartets in   The North  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 quartets

Some composers have written music specifically for weddings, other have had their compositions become a part of the wedding repertoire. The majority of such works have been arranged for use by wedding quartets. . A few examples are given below, as illustrations:-  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893; age 53); Oskar Rieding (1840-1918; age ca. 78); Johan Severin Svendsen (1840-1911; age 70); Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904; age 62); Carl Tausig (1841-1871; age 29); Michael Abels (1962-still alive 2003; age ca. 41); Andersen Viana (1962-still alive 2003; age ca. 41); Jonathan Elliott (1962-still alive 2003; age ca. 41); Joe Monzo (1962-still alive 2003; age ca. 41); Alex Shapiro (1962-still alive 2003; age ca. 41); Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier (1841-1894; age 53); William Copper (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Randol Alan Bass (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Joel Hoffman (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Franklin Stover (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Bramwell Tovey (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Elfrida Andrée (1841-1927; age ca. 86); Gabriel Dupont (1878-1914; age 36); Emiel Hullebroeck (1878-1965; age 87); Constantino Gaito (1878-1945; age ca. 67); Selim Palmgren (1878-1951; age 73); André Caplet (1878-1925; age 46); Apollon Selivyorstovitch Gussakovsky (1841-1875; age ca. 34); Carl Zeller (1842-1898; age 56); Karl Millöcker (1842-1899; age 57); Rikard Nordraak (1842-1866; age 23); Jules Massenet (1842-1912; age 70); Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912; age 70); Chiel Meijering (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Joaquín Nin y Castellanos (1878-1949; age 71); Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957; age 78); André van Haren (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Graham Fitkin (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40); Sinan Carter Savaskan (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Robert Kramer (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Silvie Bodorová (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Vladimir Djambazov (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900; age 58); Arrigo Enrico Boito (1842-1918; age 76); Calixa Lavallée (1842-1891; age 48); Nick Peros (1963-still alive 2003; age ca. 40);

 
 

Wedding Quartets - a quotation:  The North   

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

The general principles of playing together, as epitomized in the string quartet, would seem fairly obvious: style, homogeneity, and the happy blending of the individual players’ distinctive qualities. it is naturally more satisfying to listen to a professional group than to four chance artists who play without quartet style, because an interpretation is alive and interesting only when subserved by a highly developed understanding and subtlety of ensemble.

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  The North   

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

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;