About Us
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About Us |
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We are a happy, friendly, reliable string quartet, based in the Staffordshire /
West Midlands. Our quartet includes experienced instrumental teachers
and specialises in weddings and civil partnerships. We also cater for private
functions, anniversaries, garden and birthday parties.
We have a wide repertoire to suit all musical tastes including selective
popular, light or classical to create the perfect atmosphere for your day. We
can provide music suitable for your ceremony, drinks reception or wedding
breakfast, always creating the perfect mood for the moment. We are happy to help
with your music selection, either from our own repertoire or by arranging your
special choice wherever possible.
To eliminate anxieties, we would always be at the venue approximately 30 minutes before we are due to start.
Distance is no object. Our recent venues have included :-
Weddings
The Ceremony
We are usually asked to play for guests’ arrival before the ceremony begins, the entrance of the bride, the signing of the register and finally the departure. This normally takes approximately 1 hour.
Drinks Reception
This normally takes between 1 and 1.5 hours of music, to include the receiving line if required.
Wedding Breakfast
A normal meal requires 1.5 to 2 hours of music (including a small break if required), terminating shortly before the speeches.
The above sections of the wedding can be catered for individually, or in any combination.
Dress Code
We offer :-
Upon request, we can also offer a table planning, invitations and place setting card service, penned by hand in calligraphy.
Please see our contact page.
Examples of Wedding Music Repertoire
Bridal Marches
1. Wagner's Bridal March
(Here Comes the Bride)
2. Mendelssohn's Wedding March
"Midsummer Night's Dream"
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Classical |
Light Music | ||
| Bach | - | Air | Albeniz - Tango Op.165 No.2 |
| Bach | - | Sleepers Wake | L. Anderson - Blue Tango |
| Bach | - | Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring | L. Anderson - Forgotten Dreams |
| Bizet | - | Entracte from Carmen | L. Anderson - Sandpaper Ballet |
| Bizet | - | Prelude to Carmen | L. Anderson - The Syncopated Clock |
| Boccherini | - | Minuet | L. Anderson - The Waltzing Cat |
| Boyce | - | Trumpet Voluntary | Beatles - A Hard Day's Night |
| Borodin | - | Polovtsian Dance - Prince Igor | Beatles - And I Love Her |
| Borodin | - | First Polovtsian Dance | Beatles - If I Fell |
| Charpentier | - | Trumpet Tune | Beatles - Lady Madonna |
| Clarke | - | Trumpet Voluntary | Beatles - When I'm 64 |
| Dvorak | - | Humoreske No. 7 | Bizet - La Toupie |
| Dvorak | - | Slavonic Dance | Di Capula - O Sole Mio |
| Elgar | - | Salut D'Amour | Carpenters - Yesterday Once More |
| Elgar | - | Chanson de Matin | Carpenters - Solitaire |
| C.Franck | - | Panis Angelicus | Carpenters - Close to You |
| Gounod | - | Ave Maria | Carpenters - Goodbye to Love |
| Grieg | - | Waltz op 12 | Debussy - Le Petit Negre |
| Grieg | - | Norwegian Dance No. 2 | Delibes - Flower Duet from Lakme |
| Grieg | - | Norweigan Dance No. 3 | Denza - Funiculi Funicula |
| Grieg | - | 'Morning' from the Peer Gynt Suite | Donaldson - Makin' Whoopee |
| Grieg | - | Wedding Day at Troldhaugen | Gabriel Faure - Apres un Reve |
| Handel | - | Arrival of the Queen of Sheba | Gershwin - I Got Rhythm |
| Handel | - | La Rejouissance (From The Royal Fireworks) | Gershwin - Someone to Watch Over Me |
| Handel | - | Largo 1 and 2 | Gershwin - The Man I Love |
| Handel | - | Water Music (Inc. Airs and Hornpipes) | Gershwin - Embraceable You |
| Handel | - | Hallelujah Chorus from The Messiah | Gilbert and Sullivan - Three Little Maids from the Mikado |
| Haydn | - | Serenade op 3 No. 5 | Ilyinsley - Berceuse from Noure & Anitra Suite |
| Haydn | - | Symphony No. 77 Mvt. 4 | Jenkins - Adiemus Variations for String Quartet |
| Mascagani | - | Cavalleria Rusticana | Jenkins - Palladio |
| Massenet | - | Meditation from Thais | Johnson - Pennies from Heaven |
| Mozart | - | Eine Kleine Nachtmusik | S. Joplin - New Rag |
| Mozart | - | Rondo Alla Turca | S. Joplin - Ragtime Dance |
| Offenbach | - | Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffman | S. Joplin - Paragon Rag |
| Pachelbel | - | Canon | S. Joplin - Heliotrope Bouquet |
| Puccini | - | Excerpt from La Bohe'me | S. Joplin - The Entertainer |
| Purcell | - | Trumpet Tune | S. Joplin - Country Club |
| Purcell | Two Rondos from Abdelazar | S. Joplin - Pineapple Rag | |
| Rachmaninoff | - | Vocalise | J. Kern - Folks Who Live on the Hill |
| Rossini | - | William Tell Overture | MacDowell - To a Wild Rose |
| Schubert | - | Death of a Maiden | Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus |
| Schubert | - | Standchen from the song cycle 'Schwanengesang' | C. Porter - Let's Do It |
| Schubert | - | Moment Musicale op 94 No. 3 | Simon - Bridge over Troubled Waters |
| Schubert | - | Serenade | Strauss - Pizzicato Polka |
| Schumann | - | Dreaming of Scenes from Childhood | Ungar - Ashokan Farewell |
| Stanley | - | Trumpet Voluntary | |
| Strauss | - | Blue Danube | |
| Tchaikovsky | - | Danse des Mirlitons (Nutcracker Suite) | |
| Tchaikovsky | - | Quartet Opus 11 - Andante Cantabile | |
| Vivaldi | - | Four Seasons ( Autumn, Winter favourites) | |
| Traditional | West End Musicals | ||
| Weston | - | English County Garden | Les Miserables - Empty Chairs at Empty Tables |
| Turner | - | 'Scarborough Fair' | Jesus Christ Super Star - I Don't Know How to Love Him |
| Kingston | - | Greensleeves | Fiddler on the Roof - If I Were a Rich Man |
| Turner | - | La Paloma - Spanish Trad. | Sound of Music - Selection |
| West Side Story - Maria | |||
| West Side Story - Somewhere | |||
| Films/TV | West Side Story - Tonight | ||
| C. Davis | - | Pride and Prejudice | |
| Gunning | - | Theme from 'Poirot' | |
| Karas | - | The Harry Lime Theme from 'The Third Man' | |
| H. Mancini | - | Moon River from 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' | |
| A. Menken | - | Whole new World - Aladdin's Theme | |
| Arr. L.Moore | - | Mission Impossible | |
| Arr. L.Moore | - | Spongebob Squarepants (Childrens' TV.) | |
| Arr. L.Moore | - | The Addams Family | |
| N. Rota | - | Speak Softly Love from 'The Godfather' | |
| J. Williams | - | Schindler's List | |
Our repertoire is constantly being extended and any special requests will be honoured wherever possible.
