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Wedding Quartets in St Albans

A selection of wedding quartets in St Albans on this wedding music web site

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Here are some our wedding quartets in different parts of the UK. View wedding quartets in St Albans select your county from the drop down box. This will show the wedding quartets that local to 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:- 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);

What has been written about Wedding Quartets. St Albans

Literature has many references about wedding quartets and their instruments. Here are some examples-

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 St Albans

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 talented and adaptable Wedding Quartets have extensive repertoires enabling them to play appropriate music for a wide spectrum of events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding quartets

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR WEDDING QUARTETS

Bizet - Menuett from L'Arlesienne; Kreisler - Leibesfreud ; Bizet - Intermezzo and Adagietto; Mozart - Magic Flute C)verture; Clarke - Prince of Denmark's March; Gershwin - S'Wonderful; I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside; Scott Joplin – Bethena; Scott Joplin - Country Club; Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter; Mozart - 29th Symphony 1 ~ movt.; Debussy - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair; Mozart -3 Divertimenti; Borodin – Nocturne; Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Gounod - Ave Maria ; Mozart - 10 celebrated Quartets; Scott Joplin - The Easy Winners; Knight Rider Theme; Leaning on a Lamppost; Let's Do It - (by Cole Porter); Makin' Whoopee - (by Walter Donaldson); Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5; Fauré – Pavanne; Mendelssohn - Midsummer night's Dream; Pachelbel - Canon in D; Puccini - Musetta's Waltz; Mozart - Three Divertimenti ; Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze ; Molly on the Shore; The Muppet Show Theme; Gershwin - Summertime ; Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger; Oasis – Wonderwall; Handel - Hornpipe from the Water Music; Bizet - Habanera from Carmen; Mendelssohn - Wedding March; Boccherini - Minuet ; Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture; Purcell - Chacony in G minor; Sullivan - The Mikado; Palladio - (by Karl Jenkins);