A list of the music that the Quartet plays

Repertoire List

Light Music

Great Standards

Armstrong

What a wonderful world

Coward

A room with a view

Crewe

Can’t take my eyes off you

Dean Martin

That’s amore, Sway, Volare

Gordon

Unforgettable

Hupfeld

As time goes by

Jones

It had to be you

Lemare

Moonlight and roses

Mancini

Moon river

Mandel

Fly me to the moon

Rascel

Arriverderci Roma

Seiler & Marcus

I don’t want to set the world on fire

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American Greats

Berlin

What’ll I do, Let’s face the music and dance, Top hat white tie and tails, Cheek to cheek, Always, Steppin’ out with my baby, Always, Alexander’s ragtime band

Gershwin

Love walked in, Somebody loves me, I’ve got rhythm, The man I love, Nice work if you can get it, Someone to watch over me, Embraceable you, Lady be good, Just another rumba, By Strauss, They can’t take that away from me

Kern

All the things you are,  Smoke gets in your eyes, The folks who live on the hill, I won’t dance

Porter

Let's do it, Every time we say goodbye, Anything goes, True love

Rodgers

My funny valentine, The lady is a tramp

 

Jazz & Blues Classics

Shearing

Lullaby of Birdland

Strayhorn

Take the A train

Suessdorf

Moonlight in Vermont

Thielemans

Bluesette

Brown

Sentimental journey

Ragtime

Joplin

Elite syncopations, The entertainer, Pleasant moments, The easy winners, Cleopha,  Country Club

Tangos & other dances

Francini/Mores

Three Argentinian tangos

Iradier

La paloma

McLean

Tango, Czardas, Rhumba, Fandango

Lighter pieces

Dent

Bring me sunshine

Denza

Funiculi, Funicula

Di Capua

O Sole Mio

Donaldson

Makin' Whoopee

Glover-Kind

I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

Thorp

Music Hall medley

Show Songs

Andersson

Chess - I know him so well

Bernstein

West Side Story - Maria, Tonight, One hand one heart, Somewhere

Lloyd Webber

Phantom of the Opera - Theme, All I ask of you & Music of the night
Starlight Express - I am the starlight
Jesus Christ Superstar - I don’t know how to love him

Rodgers

The King & I - Shall we dance
Showboat - Bill
South Pacific - One enchanted evening, This nearly was mine, A wonderful guy

Schonberg

Les Miserables - I dreamed a dream

Folk Music

Irish, Scottish, English

Film and TV Music

Baerwald

Moulin Rouge - Come what may

Barry

James Bond themes

Horner

Titanic - My heart will go on

Jarre

Dr. Zhivago - Lara’s theme

Karas

Harry Lime theme

Rota

The Godfather - Love theme

Wilson

Fawlty Towers - Theme

Wet Wet Wet

Four Weddings and a Funeral - Love is all around

Popular arrangements

Abba Medley

I do, I have a dream, Money money money

Beatles Medley

Michelle, Yesterday, Hey Jude, When I’m 64

Broom

The Rose

Carpenters

Close to you

Elton John

Your song

Special Occasions

Blake

The Snowman suite

Berlin

White Christmas

Various

Music Hall medley, Christmas medley, Happy Birthday, Congratulations, Christmas carols

Arr. Thorp

Christmas medley

Classical Music

Great String Quartets

Movements from quartets by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Dvorak and Borodin

Popular Baroque Pieces

Albinoni

Oboe concerto

Bach

Brandenburg concerti 1, 3 & 5, Air on a G string, Sheep may safely graze, Jesu joy of man’s desiring, Sarabande from the first French suite, Sleepers awake, Bourree from the third cello suite, Minuet & Badinerie, Double violin concerto

Boyce

Symphonies 1 and 4

Clarke

Trumpet voluntary

Handel

The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, The water music, Largo, Music for the royal fireworks, Sonata opus 11

Loeillet

Sonata in D minor

Lully

Dances

Pachelbel

Canon

Purcell

Rondeau, music from Abdelazar, Trumpet tune

Vivaldi

Selections from the Four Seasons, Concerto in D minor

Wesley

Quartets

Classical Favourites

Beethoven

Ode to Joy

Boccherini

Minuet

Haydn

Serenade

Mozart

Divertimenti, Eine kleine nachtmusik, Ave verum, Slow movement from piano concerto 21, Alleluia

Schubert

Standchen, Ave Maria

Romantic Selection

Albeniz

Tango

Anon.

Greensleeves

Bizet

Excerpts from Carmen

Borodin

Polovtsian dances

Brahms

Theme from St Anthony variations

Chopin

Valse in D flat, Grande valse brillante

Debussy

The girl with the flaxen hair, Clair de lune

Delibes

Flower duet

Dvorak

Humoresque

Elgar

Idylle, Chanson de matin, Chanson de nuit, Beau Brummel, Nimrod

Fauré

Pavane, Berceuse from Dolly Suite

Frank

Panis Angelicus

Ireland

Minuet

Kreisler

Liebeslied, Liebesfreud

Les Vendredis

Two Polkas

Mendelssohn

Serenade, Wedding march

Strauss

Voices of Spring, Emperor waltz, Vienna polka, Roses from the South, Radetzky march

Sullivan

Three little maids from school

Tchaikovsky

Sleeping Beauty waltz

Vaughan Williams

Dives and Lazarus theme

Wagner

Bridal chorus

Waldteufel

Skater’s waltz, Estudiantina waltz

Operatic Selection

Mascagni

Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

Mozart

Birdcatcher’s song, Voi che sapete

Puccini

O mio babbino caro, Nessun dorma

In addition: If you require a piece of music which is not found on our current list, please ask us. We are experienced at tracing music and if necessary we can arrange music for string quartet that was originally written for other instruments. Please request this service well in advance of your event to allow us the time to find and arrange the music. An additional charge of £30 is made for this service.

Copyright text and images: Marilla String Quartet 2007/2008