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Wedding Quartets in Windermere

Find wedding quartets who perform in Windermere 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 Windermere 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

A wedding quartet is really a string quartet whose repertoire is suitable for use at weddings. Many composers have written music specifically for the String Quartet. Some only wrote for the quartet once they had become experienced, considering the string quartet to the be the perfect musical ensemble. A few examples are given below, as illustrations:- John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951; age 75); Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948; age 72); Jens Laurson Emborg (1876-1957; age ca. 81); Louis Aubert (1877-1968; age 90); Antonio Carlos Gomes (1836-1896; age 60); Léo Delibes (1836-1891; age 54); Albert Biehl (1836-1899; age ca. 63); Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911; age 74); Charles-Alexis Chauvet (1837-1871; age ca. 34); Georges Bizet (1838-1875; age 36); Max Bruch (1838-1920; age 82);

Wedding Quartets - a quotation: Windermere

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

In came a fiddler—and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. Charles Dickens (1812—70) A Christnzas Carol, 1843

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Windermere

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

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; The Londonderry Air; Country Club - Scott Joplin; Paragon Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin - The Entertainer ; Heliotrope Bouquet - Scott Joplin; Verdi - Drinking Song from La Traviata; 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; Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin's New Rag - Scott Joplin; The Teddy Bears' Picnic - J Bratton; Suite from Oklahoma & The Sound of Music - Rogers & Hammerstein; Pennies from Heaven - A Johnson; Air on a G String, Gavotte, Bouree, Gigue -J S Bach; 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; Anything Goes - Cole Porter; Let's Do It - Cole Porter; The Folks Who Live on the Hill - Jerome Kern; My Funny Valentine - Richard Rogers; Suite from South Pacific & The King & I - Rogers & Hammerstein; String Quartet K370 –Mozart; String Quartet K285 –Mozart; Hornpipe from the Water Music –Handel; 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; Makin' Whoopee – Donaldson;