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Wedding Quartets in  Henley-on-Thames   

See and hear the wedding quartets in  Henley-on-Thames  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   Henley-on-Thames  choose your county from the drop down box to see the wedding quartets that play in your area.

 
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Wedding music, composers and wedding quartets

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:-  James Dillon (1950-still alive 2003; age ca. 53); Richard Cooke (1950-still alive 2003; age ca. 53); Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814-1865; age 51); Mihaly Mosonyi (1814-1870; age ca. 56); Josephine Lang (1815-1880; age 65); Andrew Ladd (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Jos (Jozef Johannes Helena) Smeets (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894; age 24); Cornelis Dopper (1870-1939; age 69); Louis Vierne (1870-1937; age 66); Robert Volkmann (1815-1883; age 68); Robert Franz (1815-1892; age 77); William Sterndale Bennett

 
 

Wedding Quartets - a quotation:  Henley-on-Thames   

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

[Of quartets:] You listen to four sensible persons conversing, you profit from their discourse, and you get to know the peculiar properties of their several instruments. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) Quoted in Barzun (ed), Pleasures ofMusü; 1952

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Henley-on-Thames   

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

 
   Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding quartets   

EXAMPLES OF A WEDDING QUARTETS REPERTOIRE

I Don't Know How To Love Him; Blue Moon; With One Look; Gershwin - Let's Call the whole Thing Off; Beethoven - Symphony no.1 2nd movt.; Chopin – Valse; Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.7; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; I Dreamed a Dream; Love Changes Everything; Close Every Door (from 'Joseph'); On The Street Where You Live; Summertime; 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; Rossini - Italian Girl in Algiers Overture; To Life (from 'Fiddler on the Roof); Fawlty Towers; Tango Por Una Cabeza – Gardel; El Relicario – Padilla; Spanish Dance; Kreisler – Leibeshed; Bach - Air on a G-string ; Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus; Bizet - Menuett from L'Arlesienne; Kreisler - Leibesfreud ; Bizet - Intermezzo and Adagietto; Mozart - Magic Flute C)verture; Brazilian Fiddler; Pasadena; Jealousy Tango; Making Whoopee; Sunrise, Sunset; Clarke - Prince of Denmark's March; Mozart - 29th Symphony 1 ~ movt.;