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Wedding Quartets in  Plymouth   

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

See our  Plymouth  Wedding Quartets

A small selection of our wedding quartets across the UK is shown below. To find wedding quartets in   Plymouth  choose your county from the drop down box to see the wedding quartets that play in your area.

 
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Wedding quartets and composers

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:-  Guiseppe Gariboldi (1833-1905; age 72); Clément Loret (1833-1909; age ca. 76); Alexander Borodin (1833-1887; age 53); Alphonse Jean Ernest Mailly (1833-1918; age ca. 85); Johannes Brahms (1833-1897; age 63); Hanna Kulenty (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42); Janet Owen Thomas (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42); Giorgio Colombo Taccani (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42); Alain De Ley (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42); Maurice Ravel (1875-1937; age 62); Albert Heinrich Zabel (1834-1910; age ca. 76); Blodek Vilem (1834-1874; age 39); Michael Gees (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); David Leisner (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50);

 
 

Wedding Quartets - a quotation:  Plymouth   

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

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  Plymouth   

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 - 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;