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Wedding Quartets in Billingham
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Wedding quartets and composersMost composers have written music for the Wedding Quartet, which was considered by many of them to the be the perfect musical ensemble. A few examples are given below, as illustrations:- Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924; age 79); Valentina Semyonova Serova-Bergman (1846-1924; age ca. 78); Marie Jaëll (1846-1925; age 78); Philipp Scharwenka (1847-1917; age 70); Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847-1907; age 59); Cyril Scott (1879-1970; age 91); Roger Arve Vigulf (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Elliott Goldkind (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Jordi Vives i Batlle (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); David Arditti (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Andrew Violette (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Robert Greenberg (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Judith Weir (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Jonathan Berger (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Timothy Kucij (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847-1935; age 87); Ignacio Cervantes (1847-1905; age ca. 58); Peter Wallin (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968; age 87); Healey Willan (1880-1968; age 87); Pascual De Rogatis (1880-1980; age ca. 100); Robert Stolz (1880-1975; age 94); Robert Fuchs (1847-1927; age 80); Johannes Haarklou (1847-1925; age 78); Fritz Seitz (1848-1918; age ca. 70); Robert Planquette (1848-1903; age 54); Henri Duparc (1848-1933; age 85); Silvie Bodorová (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Gilles Raynal (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880-1951; age 71); William Harold Leigh-Sharpe (1880-ca. 1950; age ca. 70); Ernest Bloch (1880-1959; age 78); Luca Belcastro (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Dominy Clements (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); Douglas Weiland (1954-still alive 2003; age ca. 49); Peter Coukis (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Mack Wilberg (1955-still alive 2003; age ca. 48); Theodorus Hendricus Hubertus Verhey (1848-1929; age 80); Otto Malling (1848-1915; age ca. 67); Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918; age 70); Richard Eilenberg (1848-1927; age ca. 79); Ian Wilson (1964-still alive 2003; age ca. 39); |
Wedding Quartets - a quotation: Billingham
A sample of what has been written about wedding quartets:-
working. NevilIe Cardus (1889—1975) The Delight_ of Music, 1966
Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Billingham
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 - 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
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - (by Jerome Kern); The Teddy Bears' Picnic; Thunderbirds; Suite from "CATS" - A Lloyd Webber; Borodin - First Polovtsian Dance; Capua - O Sole Mio; Elgar - Salut d'Amour ; Debussy - Clair de Lune; Mozart - Voi Che Sapette from The Marriage of Figaro; Delibes - Flower Duet from Lakmé; Ravel – Bolero; The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony; O Sole Mio - Rinaldo do Capua; The Londonderry Air; Country Club - Scott Joplin; Paragon Rag - Scott Joplin; Purcell - Two Rondeaux from Abdelazar and the Fairy Queen; Saint-Saens - The Swan from Carnival of the Animals; Dvorak - Humoresque ; Puccini - O Mio Babbino Caro; Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance No. VIII; Mozart - Rondo Alla Turca; Scott Joplin - The Entertainer ; Heliotrope Bouquet - Scott Joplin; Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin's New Rag - Scott Joplin; The Teddy Bears' Picnic - J Bratton; Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz; Elgar - Chanson de Matin; Handel - Departure of the Queen of Sheba; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285 Mozart; Elgar - Chanson de Nuit; Gossec - Tambourin ; Mozart - Eine Kleine Nacht Musik ; Suite from Oklahoma & The Sound of Music - Rogers & Hammerstein; Pennies from Heaven - A Johnson; Anything Goes - Cole Porter; Let's Do It - Cole Porter; The Folks Who Live on the Hill - Jerome Kern; Greensleeves; Handel - Allegro from Recorder Sonata;