String Quartet Repertoire

You can select works from our repertoire list below, or leave it to us to choose appropriate works for your event. We can also make string quartet arrangements of your favourite songs. Whether your event is a wedding, birthday party, christmas party, corporate function, product launch, other PR event or ceremony (for example a christening, first communion, bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah or funeral) we can provide appropriate accompaniment to make it especially memorable.

Repertoire list

Links are to sound clips of the Crystal Palace Quartet playing the piece.

Baroque - Classical - Dances - Opera, Shows & Film music - Popular & Jazz - Romantic - Traditional and Asian

Baroque

Albinoni

Sinfonia a quattro

Bach

Air in D ("on the G string")

Bach

Badinerie

Bach

Brandenburg Concerto No.3

Bach

Double Violin Concerto

Bach

Italian Concerto

Bach

Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring

Bach

Sheep may safely graze

Bach

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake)

Boccherini

Minuetto

Boccherini

Minuetto, Ballo Tedesco, Larghetto, Minuetto, Spanish Dance

Clarke

Trumpet Voluntary

Corelli

Concerto Grosso in g

Fiore

Little Symphony

Geminiani

Concerto Grosso in F

Handel

Air

Handel

Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Handel

Concerto Grosso in C

Handel

Lascia Ch'io Pianga (Rinaldo)

Handel

La Réjouissance

Handel

Royal Fireworks Music

Handel

Water Music

Pachelbel

Canon in D

Purcell

The Old Bachelor

Purcell

Pavane

Purcell

Rondeau from Abdelazar

Purcell

Trumpet Tune

Rameau

Gavotte

Tartini

Sinfonie in D

Telemann

Six Minuets

Vivaldi

Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

Vivaldi

Concerto for two violins in C

Vivaldi

Concerto for two violins in F

Vivaldi

Concerto for two violins & cello in F

Vivaldi

Violin concerto in a minor

Vivaldi

Violin concerto in G

Classical

Arriaga

String Quartet No.1

Beethoven

Andante (from Symphony No.1)

Beethoven

Für Elise

Beethoven

Ode to Joy

Beethoven

String Quartet in F Op.18 No.1 "Romeo and Juliet"

Beethoven

String Quartet in c minor Op.18 No.4

Beethoven

String Quartet in f minor Op.95 "Serioso"

Haydn

String Quartet Op.33 No.1

Haydn

String Quartet Op.33 No.2 "The Joke"

Haydn

String Quartet Op 76 No.2 "Fifths"

Haydn

String Quartet Op.64 No.5 "Lark"

Haydn

String Quartet Op.76 No.2 "Emperor"

Haydn

String Quartet Op.76 No.4 "Sunrise"

Haydn

String Quartet Op.77 No.1 "Compliments"

Haydn

Serenade

Mozart

Alleluja (from Exsultate, Jubilate)

Mozart

Ave Verum

Mozart

Divertimento in D K.136

Mozart

Divertimento in B flat K.137

Mozart

Divertimento in F K.138

Mozart

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Mozart

March of the Priests (from The Magic Flute)

Mozart

String Quartet in D K.155

Mozart

String Quartet in G K.156

Mozart

String Quartet in C K.157

Mozart

String Quartet in B flat K.458 "Hunt "

Mozart

String Quartet in D K.575 "Prussian"

Dances

Albeniz

Spanish Dance (Tango)

Anderson

Blue Tango

Bartok

Romanian Dances

Copland

Hoe-Down (Rodeo)

Dvorak

Slavonic Dance No.8

Keating

Tea Dance (Tango, Foxtrot, Waltz, Charleston)

Leutwiler

Spanish Serenade

Mancini

Pie In The Face Polka

Monti

Czardas

Rodriguez

La Cumparsita (Tango)

Strauss

Emperor Waltz

Strauss

Tales from the Vienna Woods

Tango

Six Argentinian Tangos

Tchaikovsky

Waltz from Sleeping Beauty

Tchaikovsky

Waltz of the Flowers (from The Nutcracker)

Opera, Shows & Film music

Arlen

Over the Rainbow (Wizard of Oz)

Badly Drawn Boy

I Love NYE (About a Boy)

Bock

If I Were A Rich Man

Bock

Sunrise Sunset (Fiddler on the Roof)

Caesar

Tea for Two

di Capua

O Sole Mio

Cory

I Left My Heart In San Francisco

Delibes

Flower Duet

Hammerstein

Lover Come Back To Me

Horner

Titanic theme

M. Jarre

Doctor Zhivago (Lara's theme)

M. Jarre

Theme from Lawrence of Arabia

Lloyd Webber

Any Dream Will Do (Joseph)

Lloyd Webber

Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Evita)

Lloyd Webber

Memory (Cats)

Luhrmann

Song from Moulin Rouge

Mancini

Baby Elephant Walk (Hatari)

Mancini

Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

Mancini

Pink Panther

Morricone

Gabriel's Oboe (The Mission)

Morricone

The Good the Bad & the Ugly

Offenbach

Barcarolle

Offenbach

Can-Can

Puccini

O Mio Babbino Caro

Puccini

Nessun Dorma

Rodgers

My Favourite Things & Sound of Music medley

Rodgers

Oh What a Beautiful Morning (Oklahoma!)

Schönberg

I Dreamed a Dream (Les Misérables)

Sullivan

A Wandering Minstrel I (Mikado)

Sullivan

I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General (Pirates)

Sullivan

Titwillow (Mikado)

Verdi

Brindisi

Verdi

La Donna e Mobile

Verdi

Overture to Forza del Destino (Stella Artois ad)

Various

Other popular tunes from Broadway & West End shows - ask us!

Popular & Jazz

Aznavour

She

Beatles

Eight Days A Week

Beatles

Eleanor Rigby

Beatles

Good Day Sunshine

Beatles

Hey Jude

Beatles

Let It Be

Beatles

Norwegian Wood

Beatles

Yesterday

Berlin

Alexander's Ragtime Band

The Darkness

I Believe In A Thing Called Love

Donaldson

Makin' Whoopee

Duke Ellington

Satin Doll

Duke Ellington

Sophisticated Lady

Duke Ellington

Take the 'A' Train

Fats Waller

Ain't Misbehavin

Gershwin

Embraceable You

Gershwin

He Loves and She Loves

Gershwin

I Got Rhythm

Gershwin

Promenade ("Walking the Dog")

Gershwin

Someone to Watch Over Me

Gershwin

Summertime

Gershwin

Sweet and Low-down

Gershwin

The Man I Love

Howard

Fly Me to the Moon

Jobim

The Girl from Ipanema

Jones

It Had To Be You

Joplin

Country Club Rag

Joplin

Maple Leaf Rag

Joplin

Paragon Rag

Joplin

The Entertainer

Ledbetter

Cotton Fields

Nat King Cole

Let's Face the Music

Pinkard

Sweet Georgia Brown

Porter

Anything Goes

Porter

Every Time We Say Goodbye

Porter

I Get a Kick Out of You

Porter

Just One of Those Things

Porter

Night and Day

Porter

What is this Thing Called Love

Porter

You're the Top

Poulton

Aura Lee

Queen

Bohemian Rhapsody

Strayhorn

Chelsea Bridge

Van Heusen

Love and Marriage

Warren

That's Amore

Romantic & Modern

Bach-Gounod

Ave Maria

Barber

Adagio for strings

Bizet

Carmen: Entr'acte

Bizet

Habañera (from Carmen)

Borodin

Polovtsian Dance No.1

Borodin

String Quartet No.2

Brahms

Hungarian Dances Nos. 4, 5, 8

Britten

Simple Symphony

Chopin

Raindrop Prélude

Dvorak

Humoreske

Dvorak

String Quartet Op.96 "American"

Dvorak

String Quartets Op.51 & Op.105

Elgar

Chanson de Matin

Elgar

Nimrod from Enigma Variations

Elgar

Salut d'Amour

Elgar

Serenade for Strings

Franck

Panis Angelicus

Grieg

Elegaic Melody

Grieg

Morning

Grieg

Spring

Holst

St Paul's Suite

Massenet

Meditation from Thais

Mendelssohn

On Wings of Song

Mendelssohn

String quartet in Eb

Mendelssohn

Wedding March

Nyman

String Quartet No.2

Ravel

Bolero

Ravel

String Quartet

Schubert

Ave Maria

Schubert

Marche Militaire

Schubert

Quartet in a "Rosamunde"

Schubert

Quartet in Eb

Schumann

String Quartet No.3

Shostakovich

String Quartet No.3

Shostakovich

String Quartet No.8

Tchaikovsky

Serenade for Strings

Tchaikovsky

Song Without Words

Tchaikovsky

Suite from The Nutcracker

Traditional and Asian

American

The Wide Missouri (Shenandoah)

American

Wabash Cannonball

Bollywood song

Aye ho meri zindagi mi

Bollywood song

Balle Balle (Bride and Prejudice)

Bollywood song

Churaliya

Bollywood song

Dheere Dheere

Bollywood song

Ghar Aaja Sonja

Bollywood song

Kabhi Kabhie

Bollywood song

Kal ho Na ho - theme tune

Bollywood song

Mein Huu na

Bollywood song

Monsoon Wedding - title theme

Bollywood song

Teri meri pyar mein

Chinese

Full Moon, Blooming Flowers

Chinese

Tian Mi Mi

Collins & Leigh

Cock Linnet

English

Greensleeves

Hungarian

Czardas

Hymn

Wide selection of hymns and carols – please ask

Irish

Irish Sherry

Irish

Molly On The Shore

Jewish

Hava Nagilah

Jewish

Mazel Tov

Russian

Russian Gipsy Song

Scottish

Ye Bonnie Banks 'n' Braes

Spanish

La Cucaracha

Spiritual

Amazing Grace

Spiritual

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

Traditional

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Ukrainian

Ukrainian Tunes