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Wedding Quartets in  Stafford   

Find available wedding quartets in  Stafford  on our national live wedding music database

See our  Stafford  Wedding Quartets

Some of our wedding quartets across the UK. To view wedding quartets in   Stafford  select your county from the drop down box. This will show the wedding quartets that local to your area.

 
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Interested in our wedding quartets? Just send an email for a rapid, no obligation quotation. If you'd like to discuss the musical possibilities and alternatives for your special day? Phone or email us at Midsummer Music. We are here to help. To book us, email or phone, it's that simple.      

 

Weddings, wedding quartets and composers

Some composers considered the wedding quartet to the be the perfect musical ensemble and wrote some of their best works for the quartet. Other musical works have been transcribed for he quartet, including orchestral, vocal and even pop and jazz pieces. A few examples are given below, as illustrations:-  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958; age 85); Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956; age 83); Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960; age 88); Arthur Farwell (1872-1952; age 79); Stanislav Moniuszko (1819-1872; age 53); Franz von Suppé (1819-1895; age 76); Clara Schumann (1819-1896; age 76); Aleksandr Nikolayevitch Serov (1820-1871; age 51); Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901; age 81); Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881; age 61); Albert Franz Doppler (1821-1883; age 61); Eyvind Alnæs (1872-1932; age 60);

 
 

What has been written about Wedding Quartets.  Stafford   

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

That instrument of mixed sex ... this hermaphrodite of theorchestra. Thomas Beecham (1879—1961) A Mingled Chime, 1944

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Stafford   

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 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

 
   Some examples of the repertoire of our wedding quartets   

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR WEDDING QUARTETS

I Love You Samantha - Cole Porter; Just Another Rhumba – Gershwin; La Bamba; Maggie's Theme [from the Thorn Birds] – Mancini; Match of the Day; Traumerei – Schumann; Waltz op 12 – Grieg; Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no.3; Bizet - Carmen Suite; Ponchielh - Dance of the Hours; Ravel – Bolero; Barber - Adagio for Strings; Pie In The Dace Polka [from the Great Race] – Mancini; Roast Beef of Old England [Military]; Singing in the Rain; Somethin's Comin' – Bernstein; Song from "10" [It's Easy to Say] – Mancini; Brahms - Hungarian Dances nos. 5 and 6; Beethoven - Symphony no.1 2nd movt.; Chopin – Valse; Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.7; String Boogie - Phil Green; The Inspector Clouseau Theme – Mancini; The Way You Look Tonight; Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger; Anything Goes; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring; Elgar – Nimrnd; Handel - The arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Massenet – Meditarion; Rossinn - William Tell Overture; Haydn – Serenade; Dark Eyes - Trad.; Getting Sentimental Over You; Hello Dolly; It Had To Be You; Match of the Day; Rossini - Italian Girl in Algiers Overture;