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Wedding Quartets in  Portsmouth   

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

See our  Portsmouth  Wedding Quartets

Below are a selection of our wedding quartets across the UK. To locate wedding quartets in   Portsmouth  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 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:-  Joseph Waters (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882; age 60); Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903; age 80); Edouard Lalo (1823-1892; age 69); Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen (1823-1874; age 50); Stefan Hakenberg (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Aldo Brizzi (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Daron Hagen (1961-still alive 2003; age ca. 42); Joseph Jongen (1873-1953; age 79); Déodat de Séverac (1873-1921; age 47); Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens (1823-1881; age 58);

 
 

A quote for Wedding Quartets.  Portsmouth   

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

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  Portsmouth   

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 - Whatever your corporate event or party is for, our highly versatile Wedding Quartets will have the right music for your occasion.

 
   Some examples of the 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;