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Lydian strings - string quartet String quartet for weddings, private parties and corporate entertainment  
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Lydian Strings after more than ten years of performing together at hundreds of events, have the experience to create just the right musical ambience to suit your needs. Yorkshire based
 
Price Guide: £540 +  
 
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Wedding music, corporate entertainment, string quartet, music for the wedding ceremony, classical music, classical string quartet performances plus other events.  

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'The quartet's repertoire ranges from the sophistication of Bach, the sparkle of Mozart, operatic classics, right through to the entertaining and witty arrangements of Scott Joplin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, The Beatles, Oasis and many more. They do pride themselves on their rapport with audiences and the prime concern, is always to provide the type of entertainment that clients wish for.

The groups experience as professional musicians includes working with the English National Ballet, the Opera North, the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, the South Bavarian Theatre Company, the National Festival Orchestra, the D'Oyly Carte and Carl Rosa operatic company. Television appearnces have been on ITV in 'A Touch of Frost and Channel 4 in 'No Angels'.

A typical performance is for 2 hours of music within a 3 hour period.

Line up & Options:
2 x violins, viola, cello
 
     
Testimonials
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"We were very moved by your playing of our special choices for the ceremony and the variety of music you played at the reception was perfect."
Wedding client

"Thank you for arranging the requests of our choice - it made the ceremony so very personal. Much praise from our guests."
Wedding client
 
 
Selected Repertoire  
Light Classical

Blue tango
Fiddle faddle
Forgotten dreams
Horses and buggy
Jazz pizzicato
Plink plank plunk
Trumpeters lullaby
The typewriter
BACH Johann Sebastian
Air (from suite no 3 in D)
Brandenburg concerto no 3
Double violin concerto
Jesu, joy of man’s desiring
Sheep May safely graze
Carmen prelude - Bizet Georges
L’Arlesienne
Nocturne - Borodin Alexander
Hungarian dance - Brahms Johannes
The Flower Duet - Delibes Leo
Humoreske - Dvorak Anton
Chanson de matin - Elgar Edward
Chanson de nuit
Nimrod
Salut d’amour
Love is here to stay - Gershwin George
Three preludes
Oh, lady be good
Summertime
I got rhythm
Waltz - Grieg Edward
Wedding day at Troldhaugen
Air from the Water Music - Handel George Frederick
Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba
Fireworks suite
Largo
Serenade - Haydn Josef
Mvt from the Emperor Quartet
Meditation (from Thais) - Massenet Jules
Canzonnetta - Mendelssohn Felix
Czardas - Monti
Adagio and Fugue in C minor - Mozart
Divertimento in D, F and Bb
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Barcarolle - Offenbach Jaques
Can-can
Canon and Gigue - Pachelbel Johann
Ave Maria - Schubert Franz
Theme from the Gadfly - Schostakovitch
Redetsky march - Strauss
The Blue Danube
Roses from the south
Tritsch Tratsch polka
Voices of spring waltz
Pirates of Penzance - Sullivan Arthur
Ruddigore
Viola concerto - Telemann
Danse des minitons
Irish sherry - Trad
Masons apron
Marino waltz
Greensleeves
Londondery air
Brindisi - VERDI
The four seasons - Vivaldi
Concerto in A minor
Concerto in D minor
Italian Serenade – Wolf Hugo

Popular

All I ask of you
All the things you are
All you need is love
Anything goes
Bill
Born free
Champagne supa nova
Cock linnet
Country club rag - Joplin
Don't Cry for me Argentina
Easy winners
Eleanor Rigby
Every time we say goodbye
Hard days night
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing
If I were a rich man
I wont dance
Harry Lime theme
I dreamed a dream
I do like to be beside the seaside
I know him so well
If you knew Suzie
I'll build a stairway to paradise
Imagine
I'm walking in the air
La Paloma
Lady Madonna
Leaning on a lampost
Let's do it
Love is here to stay
Love story
Makin' Whoopee
Maria
Moon river
Memory
Moonlight and roses
Moon river
music in the night
My funny valentine
My heart will go on
Oh lady be good
Palladio
Paragon rag
Pennies from heaven
Penny Lane
Ragtime dance - Joplin
Roseleaf rag - Joplin
Someone to watch over me
something
strangers in the night
S'wondeful
Summertime
Sunrise sunset
Those were the days
The folks who live on a hill
Thank you for the music
The long and winding road
Walking in the air
Whatever
When Im 64
Yesterday

Classical

Adagio - Albioni
Quartet in A minor (Op35a) - Albinoi
Adagio - Barber Samuel
Quartet in C major Rasmovsky - Beethoven Ludvig van
Qt in C minor (Op 6)
Qt in Fmajor (Op 6)
Qt ino 2 in D major - Borodin Alexander
Qt no 3 in Bb major (Op 67) Brahms Johannes
An Irish melody - Bridge Frank
Qt no 5 in F major (Op 9) - Dvorak Anton
Qt no 12 in F major (Op 96) American
The bird 'The lark' The fifths' - Haydn Josef
Qt no 2 in A minor (Op 13) - Mendelsohnn Felix
The hunt, the dissonance - Mozart Wolfgang
Adagio & Fgue in C minor (K456)
Qartet i G major (K387)
Qt no 13 in a mino Rosamunde - Schubert Franz
Quartetsatz
Italian Serenade - Wolf Hugo

 
 
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