String Quartet Repertoire

"I wanted to let you know how delighted we were with the Crystal Palace Quartet on the day. It was such a beautiful day, made all the more perfect by the music you played. You were absolutely superb and created a wonderful atmosphere to compliment the surroundings. We had so many comments from friends who loved the Darkness piece as well, it was just brilliant! "
Emma Griffin, Wedding, June 2007

Crystal Palace String Quartet

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

Bolded 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

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"Many thanks for your time and the music was wonderful as always."
Natalie Woods, Corporate function, Jan 2007

Crystal Palace String Quartet

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"

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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)

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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!

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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: When I'm Sixty-Four
Beatles: Yesterday
Berlin: Alexander's Ragtime Band
The Cure: Just Like Heaven
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
ELO: Mr Blue Sky
Fats Waller: Ain't Misbehavin
The Farm: All Together Now
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
The Kinks: Waterloo Sunset
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: Let's Do It
Porter: Night and Day
Porter: What is this Thing Called Love
Porter: You're the Top
Poulton: Aura Lee
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
Ramones: Baby I Love You
Rolling Stones: Jumpin' Jack Flash
Sting: Roxanne
Strayhorn: Chelsea Bridge
Van Heusen: Love and Marriage
Warren: That's Amore

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Romantic & Modern

Bach-Gounod: Ave Maria
Barber: Adagio for strings
Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata
Bizet: Carmen: Entr'acte
Bizet: Camen: Overture
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: Chanson de Nuit
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
Liszt: Nocturne from Liebesträume
Massenet: Méditation from Thais
Mendelssohn: On Wings of Song
Mendelssohn: String Quartet Op.12 in Eb
Mendelssohn: Wedding March
Nyman: String Quartet No.2
Ravel: Bolero
Ravel: String Quartet
Respighi: Italiana (Ancient Airs & Dances)
Saint-Saëns: The Swan
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
Yepes: Jeux Interdits

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Crystal Palace String Quartet

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: Chura Liya
Bollywood song: Dheere Dheere
Bollywood song: Ghar Aaja Sonja
Bollywood song: Kabhi Kabhie
Bollywood song: Kal ho Naa 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

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