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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!

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

Classical String Quartets

String Quartet, Op.12 – Mendelssohn
String Quartet No.2 – Borodin
String Quartet No.13, K421 – Mozart
String Quartet No.16, K464 – Mozart
String Quartet No.1, Op.1 – Haydn
String Quartet No.2, Op.1 – Haydn
String Quartet No.3, Op.1 – Haydn
String Quartet No.1, Op.18 – Beethoven
Adagio from String Quartet, Opus 11 – Barber
Adagio Cantabile (from Pathetique Sonata) – Beethoven
‘American’ Quartet - Dvorak
Andantino (from La Forza del Destino) – Verdi
Barber of Seville – Rossini
Basse Danse (from Capriol Suite) – Warlock
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 – Bach
Czardas (from 'Swan Lake') – Tchaikovsky
Dance of the Swans (from 'Swan Lake') – Tchaikovsky
Divertissement Pizzicati (from Sylvia) – Delibes
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – Mozart
Fur Elise - Beethoven
The Golliwogs’ Cake-Walk (from Childrens Corner) – Debussy
Hall of the Mountain King – Grieg
Humoresque – Dvorak
Largo from (Symphony No. 9) – Dvorak
Mazurka (from Coppelia) – Delibes
Meditation (from Thais) – Massanet
Minuet in G – Beethoven
Minuetto - Boccherini
Nimrod (from Enigma Variations) - Elgar
Overture (from The Marriage of Figaro) – Mozart
Pas de Deux (from Swan Lake) – Tchaikovsky
Pavane – Faure
Pieds-en-l’Air (from Capriol Suite) – Warlock
Prince Igor (from Polovtsian Dances) – Borodin
Radetsky March – Strauss
Rondo alla Turka – Mozart
The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals) – Saint-Saens

Light Music

All I ask of You – Andrew Lloyd Webber
All My Loving – Beatles
Angels – Robbie Williams
Ashoken Farewell – Jay Ungar
Cabaret – John Kander
Can’t help Falling in Love – Weiss/Peretti/Creatore
Close to You – Burt Bacharach
Come Fly With Me – Van Heusen
Concerning Hobbits – Howard Shore
Do you want to know a secret – Beatles
Drive my Car – Beatles
Eleanor Rigby – Beatles
The Entertainer – Scott Joplin
(Theme from) "Fawlty Towers" – Dennis Wilson
Flying Without Wings – Westlife
Get me to the Church on time – Frederick Loewe
God Only Knows – Beach Boys
Good Day Sunshine – Beatles
Hello Goodbye – Beatles
Here Comes the Sun – George Harrison
Hey Jude – Beatles
How Deep is Your Love – Bee Gees
If I Fell – Beatles
I Got Rhythm – George Gershwin
It had to be you – Isham Jones
Its All About You – McFly
Je t’aime – Serge Gainsborough
Lady Madonna – Beatles
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 Irish
Love and Marriage – Van Heusen
Moondance – Van Morrison
Moon River – Henry Mancini
Music of the Night – Andrew Lloyd Webber
Nobody Does it Better – Carly Simon
Peacherine Rag – Scott Joplin
That’s Amore – (Dean Martin)
Three Little Maids (from The Mikado) - Sullivan
Ticket to Ride – Beatles
Try a Little Tenderness – Woods/Campbell/Connelly
Yesterday – Beatles
Your Song – Elton John
She – Eric Clapton
Songs of Love – Divine Comedy
Unforgettable – Nat King Cole
Yesterday – Beatles
Yesterday Once More - Carpenters
When You Tell Me That You Love Me – Hammond/Bettis
Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Wonderwall – Oasis
Various – Gilbert and Sullivan