Repertoire
String Quartet:
Sample Ceremony Suggestions
ENTRANCE
Canon in D (Pachabel)
Wedding March (Wagner)
Gabriel’s Oboe (Morricone)
Hoppipola (Sigur Ros)
LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES
Air on a G String (Bach)
Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
She Moved Through the Fair (trad.)
OFFERTORY
Ag Críost an Síol (Ó Riada)
Winter (Vivaldi)
Pavane (Fauré)
Kissing You (Des’ree)
SIGN OF PEACE
Tabhair dom do Lámh (trad.)
Flower Duet (Delibes)
COMMUNION
Panis Angelicus (Franck)
Ave Maria (Schubert)
Intermezzo (Mascagni)
To Build a Home (The Cinematic Orchestra)
SIGNING OF THE REGISTER
Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve)
One Day Like This (Elbow)
At Last (Etta James)
Yellow (Coldplay)
RECESSIONAL
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)
All You Need is Love (The Beatles)
Here Comes the Sun (The Beatles)
Viva la Vida (Coldplay)
Beautiful Day (U2)
General Inspiration
String Quartet:
Film and Easy Listening
DRAW INSPIRATION FROM THE LIST BELOW
FOR YOUR CIVIL CEREMONY, PRE-RECEPTION OR RECEPTION MUSIC
Annie’s Song -John Denver
Falling Slowly- Glen Hansard
God Only Knows – Beach Boys
Have I Told You Lately- Van Morrison
At Last – Etta James
Kissing You- Des’ree
Love and Marriage -van Huesen
Heard it through the Grapevine
Moondance- Van Morrison
Morning Has Broken
Palladio- Jenkins
She- Elvis Costello
Songbird- Eva Cassidy
The Rose- Bette Midler
Stand by me- Ben E King
Pure Imagination form Willy Wonka
Music of the night from Phantom of the Opera
Wouldn’t it Be Nice- Beach Boys
You Raise Me Up -Josh Groban
Your Song-Elton John
All You Need is Love- Beatles
Eleanor Rigby- Beatles
Here Comes the Sun- Beatles
Here, There and Everywhere- Beatles
In My Life-Beatles
Imagine- Beatles
Let It Be-Beatles
Penny Lane- Beatles
Portuguese Love Theme- Love Actually
Glasgow Love Theme- Love Actually
When I am Sixty-Four- Beatles
Yesterday- Beatles
As Time Goes By from Casablanca
Ashokan Farewell from The Civil War
Can’t help falling in love – Elvis
Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission
La Vie en Rose (theme)
Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso
Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet
My Heart Will Go On from The Titanic
Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz
Tale As Old As Time from Beauty and The Beast
When I Fall in Love from One Minute to Zero
When a man loves a women- Percy Sledge
When You Wish Upon a Star from Pinocchio
Makin’ Whoopee-Donaldson
Moonlight in Vermont-Suessdorf
The man I love -Gershwin
S’Wonderful -Gershwin
They can’t take that away from me -Gershwin
Let’s do it -Porter
Anything Goes -Porter
Pennies from heaven -Johnson
A Nightingale sang in Berekely Square- Sherwin
Summertime -Gershwin
Love theme ( The Godfather) Nino Rota
String Quartet:
Classical Repertoire
DRAW INSPIRATION FROM THE LIST BELOW
FOR YOUR MASS, CIVIL CEREMONY, PRE-RECEPTION OR RECEPTION MUSIC
Adagio- Albinoni
Air on a G String – Bach
Jesus, Joy of Mans Desiring- Bach
Brandenburg Concerto- Bach
Double Violin Concerto- Bach
Sheep May Safely Graze- Bach
Fur Elise- Beethoven
Moonlight sonata- Beethoven
Ode to Joy- Beethoven
Habenera from Carmen- Bizet
Minuet- Boccherini
Adagio from Violin Concerto No. 1- Bruch
Trumpet Voluntary- Clarke
Claire de Lune- Debussy
Flower Duet- Delibes
O Sole Mio- Di Capua
Humoresque- Dvorak
Chanson de Matin- Elgar
Nimrod from 'The Enigma Variations'- Elgar
Salut d’Amour- Elgar
Pavane- Faure
Panis Angelicus – Franck
Ave Maria- Gounod
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba-Handel
Hallelujah Chorus from The Messiah- Handel
Hornpipe from The Water Music- Handel
La Rejouissance- Handel
Largo- Handel
Jupiter form The Planets- Holst
Pie Jesu- Lloyd Webber
Intermezzo- Mascagni
Meditation- Massenet
Wedding March- Mendelssohn
Rondaeu- Mouret
Allelujah form Exultate Jubilate- Mozart
Ein Kleine Nachtmusik- Mozart
Divertimento in D- Mozart
Divertimento in F- Mozart
Barcarolle- Offenbach
Canon in D- Pachelbel
Nessun Dorma- Puccini
O Mio Babbino Caro- Puccini
Trumpet Tune- Purcell
Gymnopedie- Satie
Ave Maria- Schubert
Spring from The Four Season- Vivaldi
Winter from The Four Seasons- Vivaldi
Wedding March- Wagner
String Quartet:
Traditional Irish Selection
DRAW INSPIRATION FROM THE LIST BELOW
FOR YOUR MASS, CIVIL CEREMONY, PRE-RECEPTION OR RECEPTION MUSIC
Ag Críost an Síol -Séan Ó Riada
Carolan's Concerto
An Chúilfhionn
Danny Boy
Down by the Sally Gardens
Greensleeves
Hiding Place/Mo Ghra Thú a Thiarna- Liam Lawton
Here I Am, Lord
The Irish Washerwoman
On Eagle's Wings
She moved through the Fair
Seinn Allelujah
Tabhair dom do Lamh
The Lark in the Clear Air
Toss The Feathers
