ALLIANCE STRING QUARTET CLASSICAL MUSIC REPERTOIRE

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For weddings, our suggestions for entrances of mothers, bridesmaids, bride, mid ceremony, bridal party exit. etc. are shown to the right of the piece.

1 ALLIANCE STRING QUARTET CLASSICAL MUSIC REPERTOIRE Most music shown below is used for wedding ceremonies from prelude through postlude..or many of the pieces can be played for special events and parties depending on the taste of those interested in hiring us. For weddings, our suggestions for entrances of mothers, bridesmaids, bride, mid ceremony, bridal party exit. etc. are shown to the right of the piece. We will definitely assist our clients with their choices, or we can select for them if required. All can be done either through correspondence, or a meeting with the quartet coordinator in her home.. In the case of wedding ceremonies,,,most music selections usually have to be approved by your officiant or minister of music.. We try to honor any requests our clients have which do not appear on our list, and they are welcome to contact the quartet coordinator for discussion. A professional vocalist, trumpeter, string bass player, or pianist can be added to our group for an additional fee to be negotiated, either by us or our clients.. Please contact the quartet coordinator for discussion of additional musicians.. COMPOSER TITLE OF PIECE Albeniz Tango Op. 165, No. 2

2 Adler Concerto for Strings,, three movements Albinoni Adagio J. Aubert Air (Mothers, Bridesmaids, Bride) J. C. F. Bach Andante from Quartet No. 3 Op. 1 J.S. Bach Air Aria Arioso,,, also know as Sinfonia Badinere Bourree Brandenburg Concerto nos. 1, 2, and 3 and 5 Chorale Prelude Chorales for Strings Double Concerto in d minor (three movements) Fugue from the well tempered clavier Gavottes 1 and 2 from the D Major Suite Gavotte in g minor Gigue and Fugue Jesu, Joy of Man s Desiring ( Mother s Entrance-) Trumpet can be added, if desired Loure from Suite for Violoncello

3 Prelude and Fugue in d minor Sarabande from French Suite NO. 1 Sheep May Safely Graze (vocalist can be added) Sleepers Awake Sonata in G Major (four movements) Bach/Gounod Barber Barnby Bartok Ave Maria (Prelude in C) Mid ceremony or mothers Adagio for Strings ( Funerals only) O Perfect Love Mothers entrance Moods Five Short Pieces Joyful (Canon), Sadness, Michieveous, Remoresful, Festive Two Hungarian Folktunes - Mvt. 1 Allegretto Mvt. 2 Andante Beethoven Adagio Cantabile from Piano Sonata Op. 13 Adagio from Pathetique Symphony Allegretto from the 7 th Symphony Cavatina from String Quartet, Op. 130 Contra Dance No. 3 in C Major Fur Elise Menuetto and Trio from Sonata for Piano Op. 13 No. 3 Moonlight Sonata Ode to Joy Exit of Wedding Party

4 Ten German Dances Themes from Symphony no. 2 and 7 Berger Bernstein Bizet Overture for Strings One Hand, One Heart Adagietto Carmen Suite Selections Intermezzo Minuetto Two Sketches from Children at Play Boardman Gigue Bridesmaids, Bride Bohm Borodin Sarabande Polovitsian Dance (Strangers in Paradise) Brahms String Quartet No. 2 (includes Notturno) Adagio from Violin Concerto Hungarian Dances No. 2, 3, 4, and 5 Intermezzo Theme from Symphony NO. 1 Buxtehude Sarabande and Gigue

5 Campra Charpentier Chopin Rigaudon Bride, bridesmaids Prelude to Te Deum for Trumpet and Strings Or strings only Bride or Bridesmaids Te Deum Memories of Chopin Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 Two Preludes Clarke Trumpet Voluntary Bride Trumpet can be added Clementi Corelli Corrente Dall Abaco Del Borgo D Hardelot Adagietto Sonatina for Strings (3 movements) Minuetto The Best of Corelli Grossos (8 pieces in all) Sonata for Strings Grave, Allegro Fantasia for Strings Because Mothers, mid ceremony

6 Debussy Dekoven DeLamater Clair de lune The Girl With the Flaxen Hair Oh Promise Me Quartet no. 2 in F Delibes Flower Duet from Lakme Dix Greensleeves Dvorak Slavonic Dance No. 1 Symphony 8, Movement III Three Slavonic Dances Elgar Adagio Nimrod from the Enigma Variations, Op. 36 Faure Foster Salute d Amor Chanson de Nuit Apres en reve Pavane from Op. 50 Pie Jesu Beautiful Dreamer Franz Dedication Franck Panis Angelicus Geminiani Concerto Grosso in g minor Opus 6 Gershwin Concerto in F

7 Getry Danse from Amphtyron Glazunov Five Novellettes for String Quartet Gluck Gossec Gounod Ave Maria 1. Alla Spanola 2. Orientale 3.Interludium in modo Adagio 4.Valse 5.Air Ungherese Gavotte from Ipigenia in Aulis Symphonie in D Minuet from Orpheus Dance Musette Tambourin March Pontificale Bride, Bridesmaids Graf Grainger Gretry Kanon in C Bridal Lullaby Danse from Amphitryon Grieg I Love Thee Last Spring

8 Handel Studenternes Serenede Wedding Day at Troldhaugen Air in E flat Adagio and Allegro from Sonata No. 6 All movements from the Water Music Air from the Water Music (Mothers) Air in F Allegro from Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 1 Aria Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Bourree Chamber Suite in D,, Adagio and Allegro Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No. 1 (Allegro) Coro from the Water Music (Bride) Gavotte from Opera Rodrigo Gigue (Exit) Hornpipe from the Water Music in D and F (Exit) LaPaix from Royal Fireworks (Bride,Bridesmaids) LaRejouissance (Exit) Largo from Xerxes Let the Bright Seraphim, with or without trumpet

9 Minuet in D Royal Fireworks (Bride, Bridesmaids) Menuet Minuet from Royal Fireworks Bride, Bridesmaids) Passacaile Two Dances,,Sarabande and Gigue Halverson Haydn La Melancolie Lemberg Minuet and Trio Menuetto from from Quartet 52 and 64 Menuet Menuet from the 6 th Symphonies ou Quatour Presto from Quartet No. 2 Rondo from Quartet, Op. 33, No. 3 Serenade Holfeldt Halcyon Lullaby Horner Twilight and Mist from the Ludlows (Brad Pitt movie) Hovhaness Psalm and Fugue Humperdinck Prayer from Hansel and Gretel

10 Irizarry Jenkins Long Journey Into the Light Adiemus Variations for String Quartet Palladio (Diamond Commercial Song) Kurt Kaiser Kroll Bagatelles Three Pieces 1. Cossack 2. March 3. Magyar Kreisler Liebesfreud (Love s Joy) Leclair Liszt Locatelli Louigy Loveland MacDowell Schon Rosmarin (Fair Rosemary) Liebeslied (Love s Sorrow) Sicilienne and Rigaudon Sarabande et Tambourin Liebestraum (Dream of Love) (Mothers, mid Ceremony) Aria La Vie En Rose Mothers, Mid Ceremony Song from Secret Garden ( Mothers) Serenade to Spring from the Secret Garden (Mothers entrance) A Deserted Farm To a Wild Rose (Mothers, Mid ceremony)

11 Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 Malotte The Lord s Prayer (Vocalist can be added) Martini Plasir d Amor (Can t Help Falling in Love) Mascagni Intermezzo Massenet Aragonaise Meditation from Thais Mendelssohn Adagio from Organ Sonata No. 2 Andante con moto Canzonetta from String Quartet in E flat Major Cornelius March (Bride, Bridesmaids) Hunter s Farewell Intermezzo Nocturno from Midsummer Nights Dream Sehnsuchtig Op. 7 No. 6 Wedding March (Traditional Exit) Monsigny Rigaudon

12 Mouret Moussorgsky Rondeau from Premier Suite (Bride,Bridesmaids) Gopak from the Fair at Sorochinsk Mozart Adagio (Ave Verum Corpus) (Mid Ceremony) Alla Turca Alleluia from Exsultante Jubilate (Exit) Andantino from Divertimento Divertimento No. 3. Kochel 138 (3 movements) Don Giovanni Excerpts Eine kleine Nachtmusic (4 movements) Movement 3,. Minuet, for bridesmaids Minuet from Quartet No. 9 Marriage of Figaro Minuet from Divertimento No. 17 Minuet from Don Giovanni Minuetto from Quartet in D Major Selections from the best of Mozart (Various K nos.) Serenade for Strings Sinfonia Concertante

13 Sinfonietta in D Major Sonatini No. 1, Movement I Symphony No. 5 (three movements) Theme from Sonata in A Major Ole Bull La Melancolie Pachelbel Canon in D (Bride, Bridesmaids) Paderewski Pochon Prokofieff Puccini Purcell Minuet Petite Etude March Gavotte Crisantemi Musetta s Waltz Nessun Dorma from Turandot O Mio Babbino Caro (Mid Ceremony) (Soprano can be added) Air, Minuet, and Rondo Hornpipe and Air Largo from the Golden Sonata Rondo and Chaconne Suite Trumpet Tune (Bridesmaids)

14 Rachmaninoff Rameau Vocalise Paganini Theme Gavotte Minuet from the Sixth Suite Passepied Rigaudon Ravel Reber Rimsky Korsakoff Sonatine Berceuse Young Prince and Princess from Scheherazade Dance from the Csar s Bride Rodgers and Hammerstein Rubenstein Ruegger Sager/Foster Saint George Wedding Processional from the Sound of Music (Bride) Berceuse Cappricio Brilliante The Prayer Petite Suite - Four Movements

15 Saint-Saens Salzburg The Swan (Mid Ceremony or Mothers) Divertimento in F Satie Gymnopedie No. 1 Schubert Andantino from Sonata Ave Maria (Mothers) Minuetto Moment Musical Op 94 No. 1 Serenade Two Minuets and Aria Schumann Botschaft Op. 124 no. 8 Dedication Lento from Kreisleriana Lied, an den Sonnenschein Aus Op. 86 Thou Ring on My Finger Traumerei/Romance Scott Irish Air Annie Laurie Shoshtakovitch Gavotte

16 Sibelius Silcher Smetana Stamitz Stanley Stookey Romance in C Hope for the Best Country Wedding (Exit) Trio No. 5 in B Major Trumpet Voluntary with Trumpet and strings, or strings alone (Bride) Wedding Song (There is Love) Vocalist can be added Strauss Blue Danube Waltz Emperor Waltz Fantasy Pizzicato Polka Sullivan Sylvius Three Little Maids from School Mikado A Star Swaldo Canon for Strings (Bridesmaids or Bride) ( A different arrangement of Pachelbels Canon in D )

17 Tallis Tartini Tchaikovsky Sketches on a Theme Sonata for two violins and cello three movements Sinfonie in A - various movements Andante Cantabile from Symphony No. 5 Andantino Andantino and Marziale Chanson Triste Humoresque Neopolitan Dance Nutcracker Suite All movements, including Waltz Of the Flowers Sleeping Beauty Waltz Swan Lake Scene 1 and 2 Theme from Romeo and Juliet Telemann Tenaglia Verdi Concerto in a minor Gigue Aria String Quartet in 3 movements: 1.Allegro 2.Andantino 3. Prestissimo

18 Andantino from La Forza Del Destino Vivaldi Chorale and Fugue Allegro in D for Strings Cappricio from Violin Concerto Op. 3 No. 6 Concerto Madrigalesco Autumn, Winter Concerto for Violin and String Quartet Concerto for two violins, Allegro Movement Op. 3 No. 12 Concertos in A Major, E Major, d minor G Major Concerto in a minor Concerto Italiano Largo from Concerto in a minor Music from the Four Seasons,,,Spring, Summer, Sonata al Santo Sepolcro Sonata Da Camera in e minor Vivaldi Viva Von Henselt Ave Maria Love Song Wagner Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin (Traditional Brides Entrance)

19 Spinning Chorus, Flying Dutchman, Sailor s Chorus Webber Williams Wolf All I Ask of You Music of the Night Pie Jesu Theme from Schindler s List Prayer All hymns/spiritual pieces shown below can be used for mid ceremony, or at any point throughout the ceremony, even during prelude or postlude.. There may or may not be a composers name available. HYMNS/SPIRITUAL PIECES Green All in a Garden Abide with us Amazing Grace As Man and Woman We Were Made As the Deer Panteth Be Thou My Vision Blest be the Tie That Binds Bind Us Together

20 Bond of Love Brother James Air Dona Nobis Pacem For the Beauty of the Earth Gift of Love Great is Thy Faithfulness How Great Thou Art How Great is our God Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee Love Divine, All Loves Excelling Navy Hymn The Servant Song Simple Gifts To God be the Glory (My Tribute) Wherever you Go Whither Thou Goest Your Love O God Has Called Us Here

SELAH STRINGS TRIO REPERTOIRE

SELAH STRINGS TRIO REPERTOIRE selahstrings.com Classical: Air on the G String (Bach) Allegro from Autumn (Vivaldi) Allegro from Spring (Vivaldi) Alleluja from Exultate Jubilate (Mozart) Andante from Piano