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Wedding Quartets in Wakefield

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

See our Wakefield Wedding Quartets

A small selection of our wedding quartets across the UK is shown below. To find wedding quartets in Wakefield 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 have written music specifically for weddings, other have had their compositions become a part of the wedding repertoire. The majority of such works have been arranged for use by wedding quartets. . A few examples are given below, as illustrations:- Tristan Keuris (1946-1996; age 50); Bjørn Kruse (1946-still alive 2003; age ca. 57); Jean Jacques Lamoureux (1946-still alive 2003; age ca. 57); Dimitri Nicolau (1946-still alive 2003; age ca. 57); Joseph Turrin (1947-still alive 2003; age ca. 56); Arturo Berutti (1862-1938; age ca. 76); Horatio Parker (1863-1919; age 56); Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937; age 73); Ramon Delgado Palacios (1863-1902; age ca. 39); Alexander Siloti (1863-1945; age ca. 82); John Field (1782-1837; age ca. 55); Jacques Bouffil (1783-1868; age ca. 85); Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (1784-1849; age ca. 65);

Wedding Quartets - a quotation: Wakefield

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 Wakefield

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

Arrival of the Queen of Sheba –Handel; Air from the Water Music –Handel; Le Rejouissance –Handel; Suite from the Dramatic Music of Henry Purcell –Purcell; Brandenburg Concerto No 3 -J S Bach; Theme Song from Molly Maguires – Mancini; When I'm 64 – McCartney; They Didn't Believe Me; And I love Her – McCartney; Moon River – Mancini; String Quartet K173 –Mozart; The Four Seasons – Spring –Vivaldi; String Quartet Op 77 no 1 - 1st movement –Haydn; Loure - J S Bach; String Quartet K169 –Mozart; Nutcracker Suite – Overture –Tchaikowsky; Ave Maria -Schubert; The Thorn Birds Theme – Mancini; Here There & Everywhere – McCartney; Maria from West Side Story – Bernstein; Girl – McCartney; She Loves You – McCartney; String Quartet K172 –Mozart; Nutcracker Suite – Trepak – Tchaikowsky; Pavane Faure; Nessun Dorma Puccini; String Quartet K158 –Mozart; O Mio Babino Caro – Puccini; Polovstian Dance – Borodin; I Will – McCartney; Here Comes the Sun – McCartney; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square – Sherwin; Baby Elephant Walk – Mancini; Charade – Mancini; Clair de Lu - Debussy; Humoreske – Dvorak; String Quartet K298 – Mozart; Morning – Grieg; String Quartet K159 – Mozart; Flower Duet from Lakme – Delibes; Wedding Day at Troldhaugen – Grieg; Days of Wine & Roses – Mancini;