Midsummer Music

Wedding Quartets in Tyneside

Wedding quartets in Tyneside on this web site of wedding music groups

See our Tyneside Wedding Quartets

Some examples of our wedding quartets across the UK are displayed below. To find wedding quartets in Tyneside find your county in the drop down box. This will take you to all of our wedding quartets that play in your locality.

Get a Quotation or Book one of our wedding quartets:-

If you're interested in our music, send an email for a prompt, no obligation quotation. If you want to discuss the musical options and alternatives for your special day? Phone or email us at Midsummer Music. Our job is to help. To make a booking, 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:- Guy Ropartz (1864-1955; age 91); Louis Glass (1864-1936; age ca. 72); Tim Ewers (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (1947-still alive 2003; age ca. 56); Howard Skempton (1947-still alive 2003; age ca. 56); Huub Kerstens (1947-1999; age 51); Johann Peter Pixis (1788-1874; age ca. 86); Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831; age 41); Friedrich Ernst Fesca (1789-1826; age 37); Carl Czerny (1791-1857; age 66); Gregg Wager (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Igor Panov (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45);

A quote for Wedding Quartets. Tyneside

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

In came a fiddler—and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. Charles Dickens (1812—70) A Christnzas Carol, 1843

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Tyneside

Weddings - Create the perfect ambience for the wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast with one of our Wedding Quartets.

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.

Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding quartets

WEDDING QUARTETS - TYPICAL REPERTOIRE

Every Time We Say Good-Bye - Cole Porter; Guantanamera; I Love You Samantha - Cole Porter; Just Another Rhumba – Gershwin; Moment Musicale Op 94 No 3 – Schubert; Norwegian Dance – Grieg; String Quartet K160 – Mozart; Slavonic Dance – Dvorak; Four Fancies for flute & string trio - Gordon Jacob; Salut d'Amou – Elgar; Chanson de Matin – Elgar; La Bamba; Maggie's Theme [from the Thorn Birds] – Mancini; Match of the Day; Pie In The Dace Polka [from the Great Race] – Mancini; Roast Beef of Old England [Military]; Minuet from Sonata Op 49 – Boccherini; 3 Quartets for flute, violin, viola, cello – Playel; Adagio Cantabile from Sonata Op 1 – Beethoven; Adagio in C K356 – Mozart; String Quartet K157 – Mozart; Andante from oboe concerto – Haydn; Ave Maris – Gounod; Singing in the Rain; Somethin's Comin' – Bernstein; Song from "10" [It's Easy to Say] – Mancini; String Boogie - Phil Green; The Inspector Clouseau Theme – Mancini; Barcarolle from the Tales of Hoffmann; Capriol Suite – Warlock; String Quartet K168 – Mozart; Greensleeves; I know that My Redeemer Liveth; String Quartet K170 – Mozart; Jesu' Joy - J S Bach; The Way You Look Tonight; Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger; Anything Goes; Dark Eyes - Trad.; Getting Sentimental Over You; Kinderszenen p 15 – Schumann; La Date Dominum – Mozart;