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Wedding Quartets in  Walton on Thames   

Find wedding quartets who perform in  Walton on Thames  on our this web site of wedding music groups

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Below are a few of our wedding quartets across the UK. For wedding quartets in   Walton on Thames  choose your county from the drop down box to see the wedding quartets that play in your area.

 
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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:-  Adrian Williams (1956-still alive 2003; age ca. 47); Margriet Verbeek (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); Michael Glenn Williams (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); David Lang (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46); William Albright (1944-1998; age ca. 54); Karl Jenkins (1944-still alive 2003; age ca. 59); Paul Lansky (1944-still alive 2003; age ca. 59); Willem Breuker (1944-still alive 2003; age ca. 59); James Dashow (1944-still alive 2003; age ca. 59); François Devienne (1759-1803; age 44); Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842; age 81); Jeffery Cotton (1957-still alive 2003; age ca. 46);

 
 

Wedding Quartets - a quotation:  Walton on Thames   

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

Fiddle, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse’s tail on the entrails of a cat. Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914?) The Devil ~ Dictionary, 1911

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

Weddings - During the wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast, our Wedding Quartets can set just the right atmosphere for your .

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

The Entertainer; Thunderbirds; Leroy Anderson - Fiddle-Faddle; The Beatles - Penny Lane; Mozart - 29th Symphony 1 ~ movt.; Debussy - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair; Mozart -3 Divertimenti; Borodin – Nocturne; Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Gounod - Ave Maria ; Mozart - 10 celebrated Quartets; Bernstein - Maria from West Side Story; Carillon; Cock Linnet; Danny Boy; Gershwin - S'Wonderful; Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5; Fauré – Pavanne; Mendelssohn - Midsummer night's Dream; Pachelbel - Canon in D; Puccini - Musetta's Waltz; Mozart - Three Divertimenti ; Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze ; I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside; Scott Joplin – Bethena; Scott Joplin - Country Club; Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter; Scott Joplin - The Easy Winners; Handel - Hornpipe from the Water Music; Bizet - Habanera from Carmen; Mendelssohn - Wedding March; Boccherini - Minuet ; Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture; Purcell - Chacony in G minor; Sullivan - The Mikado; Knight Rider Theme; Leaning on a Lamppost; Let's Do It - (by Cole Porter); Makin' Whoopee - (by Walter Donaldson); Molly on the Shore; Borodin - First Polovtsian Dance; Capua - O Sole Mio;