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Wedding Quartets in Sunbury London

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

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A small selection of our wedding quartets across the UK is shown below. To find wedding quartets in Sunbury London 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:- Muzio Clementi (1752-1832; age 80); Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814; age 61); William Duckworth (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60); Ross Edwards (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60); Marta Ptaszynska (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60); Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944; age 86); Hilda Sehested (1858-1936; age ca. 78); Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (1858-1944; age 86); Mélanie (Mel) Bonis (1858-1937; age 79); Michael Gordon (1956-still alive 2003; age ca. 47); Morten Lauridsen (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60); Jacques Bank (1943-still alive 2003; age ca. 60);

Wedding Quartets - a quotation: Sunbury London

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

Of his quartet, From My Life :1 A work which in a sense is private, and therefore written for four instruments which should converse together in an intimate circle about the things which so deeply trouble me. Nothing more. Bedrich Smetana (1824—84) Quoted in Cardus, The Delights of.i4usic, 1966

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Sunbury London

Weddings - Our Wedding Quartets can set just the perfect atmosphere for your wedding ceremony, drinks reception and 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

The Entertainer; Thunderbirds; Leroy Anderson - Fiddle-Faddle; The Beatles - Penny Lane; 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; Bernstein - Maria from West Side Story; Carillon; Cock Linnet; Danny Boy; Gershwin - S'Wonderful; 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 ; I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside; Scott Joplin – Bethena; Scott Joplin - Country Club; Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter; Scott Joplin - The Easy Winners; 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; Knight Rider Theme; Leaning on a Lamppost; Let's Do It - (by Cole Porter); Makin' Whoopee - (by Walter Donaldson); Molly on the Shore; Borodin - First Polovtsian Dance; Capua - O Sole Mio;