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Wedding Quartets in  Thetford   

Find wedding quartets available in  Thetford  on our live wedding music website

See our  Thetford  Wedding Quartets

Below are a selection of our wedding quartets across the UK. To locate wedding quartets in   Thetford  find your county in the drop down box. This will take you to all of our wedding quartets that play in your locality.

 
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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:-  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);

 
 

A quote for Wedding Quartets.  Thetford   

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

Entry of the violinists, dancing... Stage direction in a dirertissement by Lullv and Moliere

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Thetford   

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 - Whatever your corporate event or party is for, our highly versatile Wedding Quartets will have the right music for your occasion.

 
   Some examples of the repertoire of our wedding quartets   

WEDDING QUARTETS - TYPICAL REPERTOIRE

Purcell - Trumpet Tune; Jerusalem; Massenet - Meditation from Thais; Pachelbel – Canon; Puccini - Nessun Dorma; My Funny Valentine - Richard Rogers; Suite from South Pacific & The King & I - Rogers & Hammerstein; Makin' Whoopee – Donaldson; When I Fall In Love; Love Changes Everything - from Aspects of Love; Rossini - William Tell Overture; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K298 – Mozart; Smetana - Dance of the Comedians; Pachelbel's Canon & Gigue [Full version] – Pachelbel; Sullivan - Three Little Maids from School are We; Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite; Verdi - Drinking Song from La Traviata; Autumn Leaves; I Know Him So Well - Anderson, Rice, Ulvaeus; Summertime – Gershwin; It Ain't Necessarily So – Gershwin; Beer Barrel Polka; Vivaldi - The Four Seasons; Wagner - Here Comes the Bride; For He's A Jolly Good Fellow; Nutcracker Suite – March – Tchaikowsky; Flute & String Quartet op 3 no 1 – Haydn; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285b – Mozart; Air on a G String, Gavotte, Bouree, Gigue -J S Bach; I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' – Gershwin; Theme Song from Molly Maguires – Mancini; When I'm 64 – McCartney; They Didn't Believe Me; And I love Her – McCartney; Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince of Denmark's Marh) -J Clarke; Nutcracker Suite - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy –Tchaikowsky; Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orfeo Act 2) -C W von Gluck; Pachelbel's Canon [short version] –Pachelbel; Nutcracker Suite - Waltz of the Flowers –Tchaikowsky; Ave Maria –Schubert –Schubert; String Quartet K370 –Mozart; Moon River – Mancini;