Occasional Strings - Repertoire

Occasional Strings have a wide and varied repertoire covering traditional wedding music to light music and classical string quartets for every occasion. Whether you are looking for music for a corporate event or for a diamond wedding anniversary, we can make a programme to suit you. If you have a particular piece in mind which you cannot find in our list then just ask and we will be happy to arrange it for you at no extra cost. Below is a broad selection from our repertoire list, although this is far from complete, as we are always adding to it!

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Traditional Wedding Music - Please note that during civil ceremonies no religious music can be played.

(suggestions for the bride’s entrance / bride and groom’s exit)
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba – Handel
Canon in D – Pachelbel
Trumpet Tune – Purcell
Trumpet Voluntary – Clarke
Wedding March (from A Midsummer Night's Dream) – Mendelssohn
Wedding March (from Lohengrin) – Wagner

(suggestions for the signing of the register)
Air on the G String – Bach
Ave Verum Corpus – Mozart (Church wedding only)
Concerto for 2 violins, 2^nd movement - Bach
Chanson de Nuit - Elgar
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring – Bach (Church wedding only)
Largo (from Winter of The Four Seasons) – Vivaldi
Morning (from Peer Gynt Suite) – Grieg
Rondeau – Mouret
Salut D'Amour – Elgar
Spring (from The Four Seasons) – Vivaldi

Pop Music

A Groovy Kind of Love (Phil Collins)
All My Loving (Beatles)
All You Need Is Love (Beatles)
(Is this the way to) Amarillo (Neil Sedaka)
Angels (Robbie Williams)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Freddie Mercury)
Bridge Over Troubled Water (Paul Simon)
Can’t help Falling in Love (Weiss/Peretti/Creatore)
Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You (Franki Valli)
Close to You (Burt Bacharach)
Daytripper (Beatles)
Don’t Stop Believin’ (Journey)
Do you want to know a secret (Beatles)
Drive my Car (Beatles)
Eleanor Rigby (Beatles)
Flying Without Wings (Westlife)
For Just a Moment (from St Elmo’s Fire) (David Foster)
God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
Good Day Sunshine (Beatles)
Good Riddance (Green Day)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)
Hello Goodbye (Beatles)
Here Comes the Sun (George Harrison)
How Deep is Your Love (Bee Gees)
I Say A Little Prayer (Dionne Warwick)
If I Fell (Beatles)
It’s All About You (McFly)
La Bamba (Richie Valens)
Lady Madonna (Beatles)
Love (John Lennon)
Michelle (Beatles)
Money, Money, Money (Abba)
Moondance (Van Morrison)
My Heart Will Go On (Celine Dione)
Nobody Does it Better (Carly Simon)
Roxanne (The Police)
She (as featured in Notting Hill) (Eric Clapton)
Songs of Love (Divine Comedy)
Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Weiss/Peretti/Creatore)
The Winner Takes It All (Abba)
Ticket to Ride (Beatles)
Try a Little Tenderness (Woods/Campbell/Connelly)
Unchained Melody (Righteous Brothers)
Unforgettable (Nat King Cole)
Yesterday (Beatles)
Yesterday Once More (Carpenters)
Your Song (Elton John)
When I’m 64 (McCartney)
Wishin’ and Hopin’ (Dusty Springfield)
Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
Wonderwall (Oasis)

Classical Music

Adagio (from Violin Concerto in G) (Bruch)
Air on a G String (Bach)
Andantino (from La Forza Del Destino) (Verdi)
Ave Maria - Schubert (Schubert)
Badinerie (Bach)
Barcarolle (Offenbach)
Basse Danse (from Capriol Suite) (Warlock)
Brindisi (from La Traviata) (Verdi)
Canon in D – Pachelbel (Pachelbel)
Chanson De Nuit (Elgar)
Clair De Lune (Debussy)
Concerto for 2 Violins (Bach)
Czardas (from Swan Lake) (Tchaikovsky)
Divertimento in D (Mozart)
Eine Kleine (Mozart)
Entrance of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)
Entry of the Gladiators (Fucik)
F Major Quartet (Haydn)
Flower Duet (from Lakme) (Delibes)
Fur Elise (Beethoven)
Gavotte (from Holberg Suite) (Grieg)
Gloria (Vivaldi)
Humoresque (Dvorak)
Intermezzo (from Cavalliera Rusticana) (Mascagni)
Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
March (from Nutcracker Suite) (Tchaikovsky)
Minuet (Boccherini)
Pieds-en-l’Air (from Capriol Suite) (Warlock)
Prelude (from Te Deum) (Charpentier)
Prince Igor (from Polovtsian Dances) (Borodin)
Rondeau (Mouret)
Rondo (from Abdelazar) (Purcell)
Salut d’Amour (Elgar)
Spring (from Four Seasons) (Vivaldi)
Trumpet Tune (Purcell)
Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)
Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
Wedding March (Wagner)

Light Music

All I ask of You (from Phantom of the Opera) (Andrew Lloyd Webber)

America (from West Side Story) (Bernstein)
Anything Goes (from Anything Goes) (Cole Porter)
Ashoken Farewell (Jay Ungar)
As Time Goes By (featured in Casablanca) (Herman Hupfield)
Cabaret (from Cabaret) (John Kander)
Come Fly With Me (Van Heusen)
Concerning Hobbits (from Lord of the Rings) (Howard Shore)
The Entertainer (Scott Joplin)
Evergreen (from A Star is Born) (Streisand)
Every Time We Say Goodbye (Cole Porter)
(Theme from) Fawlty Towers (Dennis Wilson)
Get me to the Church on time (from My Fair Lady) (Frederick Lowe)
Habanera (Halffter)
Hernandos Hideaway/Light My Fire (Doors)
I Feel Pretty (from West Side Story) (Bernstein)
I Got Rhythm (Gershwin)
It had to be you (Isham Jones)
Jazz (Mishle)
La Vie en Rose (Louiguy)
Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love (Cole Porter)
Let’s Face the Music and Dance (Irving Berlin)
Londonderry Air (Traditional)
Love and Marriage (Van Heusen)
Love Song (from The Godfather) (Nino Rico)
Maple Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin)
Memory (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Misty (Garner)
Moon River (Henry Mancini)
New York, New York (from On the Town) (Cole Porter)
Peacherine Rag (Scott Joplin)
Send in the Clowns (Sondheim)
Somewhere (from West Side Story) (Bernstein)
Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) (Gershwin)
That's Amore (Dean Martin)
Theme from Rocky (Conti)
Three Little Maids (from The Mikado) (Sullivan)
Tomorrow (from Annie) (Strouse)