Wedding at Hothorpe Hall, Leicestershire
On Saturday our duo was booked to play for a wedding up in Leicestershire at Hothorpe Hall - a venue which despite being a 60 mile drive away was quite easy for us to get to up the M1. Set in spacious grounds with some terrific views of the surrounding countryside, this wedding venue was [...]
Wedding at Hedsor House
Hedsor house is an impressive Tudor building near Taplow in South Buckinghamshire and on Saturday the string quartet were booked to play for a wedding there. The venue has a stunning central hall with a circular gallery which is ideal for a string quartet to project music from. Before the wedding, we played a selection [...]
Wedding at The Dairy, Waddesdon
On Saturday we returned for the second time in a week to the Dairy at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. Again, this was a booking for the quartet and we played excerpts from Vivaldi’s Spring and Summer from the four seasons in front of attentive guests before the bride entered. One special aspect of the ceremony was [...]
Music for an Autumn Wedding
With such glorious sunshine this month, many couples choosing to get married in the autumn have found that by waiting a couple of months, they can save money on the cost of their wedding venues - as peak costs for summer often don’t apply to this ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’. As the busiest [...]
Accompanying the hymns….
On Saturday we were asked to play for a traditional church wedding on the border of Hertfordshire and Essex, then go on to provide music at a nearby venue for the drinks reception.
As usual, we performed some uplifting music as the guests arrived and took their seats, helping to create a romantic atmosphere in the church [...]
Weddings at Horwood House and RAF Halton
This Saturday we were pleased to be asked back to play for another wedding at Horwood House in Little Horwood, near to Milton Keynes. Although the main house was only built in 1911, it has the feeling of Edwardian splendour and has a sizeable modern extension which is used for the wedding ceremonies and receptions.
After [...]
Wedding at Newland Hall
This Saturday we returned once again to Newland Hall to provide a string duo for a wedding service and reception. We entertained guests for an hour before the ceremony with a selection of classical pieces such as Greensleeves, an arrangement for duo of La Donna E Mobile and some lovely chamber duets by Pleyel, Mozart [...]
Panis Angelicus by Cesar Franck - for String Quartet arr. Vaughan Jones
Recorded in the Church of St Giles, Cheddington, Buckinghamshire
Booking a string quartet for just the wedding ceremony.
On the whole, quite a large proportion of string quartets have a ‘minimum booking period’ of at least 2 or 3 hours, particularly for peak Saturdays over the summer months. This is simply because in the busiest and best string quartets, all four musicians will not only be in demand for the quartet itself, but [...]
