Highly Strung Quartet Repertoire

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A Foggy Day - Gershwin
A Hard Day’s Night - Beatles
A nightingale sang - Manning Sherwin
Adagio from Pathetique Sonata - Beethoven
Adagio from Spartacus - Khachaturian
Air from Suite No. 3 - Bach (listen)
All I ask of you - Lloyd Webber
All of you - Cole Porter
All that Jazz - Kander
All You Need is Love - John Lennon (listen)
Alla Siciliana - Handel
Alleluja from Exultate Jubilate - Mozart
America from West Side Story - Bernstein
And I love her - Beatles
Angels - Robbie Williams
Annie’s Song - John Denver
Anything Goes - Cole Porter
Arabesque No 2 - Debussy
Aragonese from Carmen - Bizet
Arioso - Bach
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel
Asleep in the Back - Elbow
At Last - Etta James
Au fond du temple saint (duet from the Pearl Fishers) - Bizet
Autumn (extracts from Four Seasons) - Vivaldi
Ave Maria - Bach/Gounod
Ave Maria - Schubert
Ave Verum Corpus - Mozart
Baby - Justin Bieber
Back in the USSR - Lennon & McCartney
Badinerie - Bach
Balcony Scene from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet - Craig Armstrong
Ballet from ‘Petite Suite’ - Debussy
Barber of Seville - Rossini
Barcarolle - Offenbach
Basse Dance from the Capriol Suite - Peter Warlock
Beautiful Day - U2
Beauty and the Beast - Alan Menken
Begin the Beguine - Cole Porter
Beyond the Sea - Darin
Big Spender - Cy Coleman
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Blue Danube Waltz - Strauss
Blue Tango - Leroy Anderson
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Bolero - Ravel
Book of Love - Peter Gabriel
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - Bach
Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride) - Wagner
Bridal Procession - Grieg
Brindisi – ‘Drinking Song’ from ‘La Traviata’ - Verdi
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
California Girls - Beach Boys
Can you feel the love tonight - Elton John
Can-Can - Offenbach
Candyman - Sammy Davis Jnr
Cannonball - Damien Rice
Canon - Pachelbel (listen)
Can’t buy me love - Lennon/McCartney
Can’t take my eyes off you - Crewe & Gaudio
Cavatina - Myers
Chaconne - Purcell
Champagne Galop - Lumbye
Chanson de Matin - Elgar
Chanson de Nuit - Elgar
Charlie Brown - Coldplay
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Cherry Pink - Pablo Beltran
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire - Torme and Wells
Chi Mai - Morricone
Chicago - Fred Fisher (listen)
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves - Verdi
Clair de Lune - Debussy
Clocks - Coldplay
Clog Dance from ‘La Fil mal Gardee’ - Herold
Close to you - Burt Bacharach
Cock Linnet - Collins/Leigh arr. Martelli
Come Fly with Me - Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen
Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Con te Partiro - Sartori
Concerto for Cootie - Duke Ellington
Concerto for Two Violins - Bach
Congratulations - Martin & Coulter
Consider Yourself – From ‘Oliver’
Country Club - Scott Joplin (listen)
Crazy for You - Madonna
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
Czardas - Monti
Czardas from Coppelia - Delibes
Czardas from Swan Lake - Tchaikovsky
Dambusters March - Eric Coates
Dance of the Comedians - Smetana
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Tchaikovsky
Dance of the Swans - Tchaikovsky
Dancing Cheek to Cheek - Berlin
Dancing Queen - Abba
Danse Boheme - Bizet
Danse des Mirlitons - Tchaikovsky
Danse Espagnole - de Falla
Danse Espagnole - Granados
Dark Eyes - Trad.
Day Tripper - Lennon & McCartney
Diplomat’s Polka - Strauss
Divertimento No. 1 - Mozart
Divertimento No. 2 - Mozart
Divertimento No. 3 - Mozart
Doin’ the Crazy Walk - Ellington
Don’t Stop Believing - Journey
Easy Winners - Joplin
Ecossaise - Schubert
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart
El Choclo - Villoldo
Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
Elite Syncopations - Joplin
Embraceable You - Gershwin
Emporer Waltz - Strauss
Endless Love - Richie
Entertainer - Joplin
Entry of the Gladiators - Fucik
Espana - Chabrier
Evergreen - Will Young
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Every Breath you Take - Sting
Every Time we say Goodbye - Cole Porter
Excerpts from ‘Carmen’ - Bizet
Excerpts from the ‘Four Seasons’ - Vivaldi
Fandango Espagnol - Chabrier
Fascinatin’ Rhythm - Gershwin
Fields of Gold - Sting
Final Countdown - Joey Tempest
Fix You - Coldplay
Flower Duet from ‘Lakme’ - Delibes
Fly me to the Moon - Bart Howard
Flying without Wings - Westlife
Force of the Destiny (Stella Artois advert) - Verdi
Forgotten Dreams - Leroy Anderson
Funiculi, Funicula - Denza
Fur Elise - Beethoven
Gabriel’s Oboe from ‘The Mission’ - Ennio Morricone
Galop from ‘La Vie Parisienne’ - Offenbach
Get me to the Church on Time - Loewe
Gimme Gimme Gimme - ABBA
Give me thy Hand (from Don Giovanni) - Mozart
God Only Knows - Brian Wilson
Gold & Silver Waltz - Lehar
Goldfinger - John Barry
Golliwog’s Cake Walk - Debussy
Good Riddance - Greenday
Got to get you into my Life - Beatles
Gravity - Embrace
Greatest Day - Take That
Greensleeves - Trad
Guantanamera - Pete Seeger
Gymnopodie No 1 - Satie
Habanera - Halffter
Habanera from Carmen - Bizet
Hallelujah - Cohen
Hallelujah Chorus (from ‘The Messiah’) - Handel
Halo - Beyonce
Happy Birthday - Trad.
Happy Talk - Rodgers & Hammerstien
Harry Lime Theme - Anton Karas
Have I told you lately… - Van Morrison
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Hugh Martin
Here Come the Girls - Toussaint
Here comes the Sun - Beatles
Hernando’s Hideaway - Alder & Ross
Hero - Enrique Iglesias
Hey Jude - Paul McCartney
Hoe Down (from ‘Rodeo’) - Copland
Holberg Suite – Gavotte - Grieg
Holberg Suite – Prelude - Grieg
Hopipolla - Sigur Ros
Hornpipe from the Water Music - Handel (listen)
How Deep is your love? - The Bee Gees
Humoresque - Dvorak
Hungarian Dances (various) - Brahms
I Can See Clearly Now - Nash
I Could Have Danced All Night - Lerner & Lowe (listen)
I do I do I do - Abba
I feel Good - James Brown
I feel pretty - Bernstein
I Get Around - Beach Boys
I got plenty of nothing - Gershwin
I Got Rhythm - Gershwin
I Just Called to Say I love you - Stevie Wonder
I just can’t stop loving you - Michael Jackson
I Love You - Cole Porter
I only want to be with you - Hawker & Raymonde
I Want to Hold your Hand - Beatles
I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas - Berlin
I’m gonna wash that man right out of my hair - Rodgers
I’m into something good - Herman Hermits
I’ve got you under my skin - Cole Porter
Imagine - John Lennon
In my Place - Coldplay
In the Hall of the Mountain King - Grieg
In the Mood - Glen Miller
Intermezzo (from the ballet ‘Sylvia’) - Delibes
Intermezzo from ‘Carmen’ - Bizet
Intermezzo from Cavelleria Rusticana - Mascagni (listen)
Iris - Foo Fighters
Irish Rover - Trad
Irish Sherry (incl. ‘Danny Boy’) - Trad/O'Carolan arr. Martelli (listen)
Irish Sherry Suite - Trad. (listen)
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing - Ellington
It Must be Love - Madness
It’s alright with me - Cole Porter
It’s de-lovely - Cole Porter
It’s all about You - McFly
It’s Beginning to look a lot like Christmas - Meredith Wilson
Jalousie Tango - Jacob Gade
James Bond theme tune - Barry
Jeeves & Wooster theme - Anne Dudley
Jerusalem
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring - Bach
Jupiter (Theme from Planets) - Holst
Just another Rumba - Gershwin
Kiss from a Rose - Seal
Knightsbridge March - Eric Coates
La Bamba - Richie Valens
La Cumparsita - Rodriguez
La Paloma - Sebastian Iradier
La Rejouissance (Music for the Royal Fireworks) - Handel
Lara’s Theme - Maurice Jarre
Leaning on a Lamppost - George Formby
Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters
Let it Be - Beatles
Let it Snow - Jule Styne
Let there be Love - Nat King Cole
Let’s call the whole thing off - Gershwin
Let’s Do It - Cole Porter
Let’s Face the Music and Dance - Nat King Cole
Libertango - Piazolla
Liberty Bell - Sousa
Liechtes Blute Polka - Strauss
Light my Fire - The Doors
Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney
Love & Marriage - Van Heusen
Love Changes Everything - Andrew Lloyd Webber
Love Divine
Love is Here to Stay - Gershwin
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
Love Story - Taylor Swift
Love theme from Romeo and Juliet - Tchaikovsky
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Beatles
Mack the Knife - Darin
Mad Dogs & Englishmen - Noel Coward
Make you feel my Love - Adele
Makin’ Whoopee - Donaldson (listen)
Mamma Mia - Abba
Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin
March Militaire - Schubert
March of the Devils - Suppe
Marriage of Figaro – Non piu andrai - Mozart
Marriage of Figaro – Overture - Mozart
Marriage of Figaro – Voi che Sapete - Mozart
Marry You - Bruno Mars
Mary’s Boy Child - Jester Hairston
Mazurka from Coppelia - Delibes
Me and Mr Jones - Billy Paul
Meditation (from Thais) - Massenet
Mexican Hat Dance - Bearbeitet
Minuet in G Major - Beethoven
Minuetto - Boccherini
Misty - Errol Garner
Money, Money, Money - Abba
Moon River - Henry Mancini
Moondance - Van Morrison (listen)
Moonlight and Roses - Lemare
Moonlight in Vermont - Suessdorf
Morning from ‘Peer Gynt’ Suite - Grieg
Morning has Broken
Mr Bojangles - Jerry Jeff Walker
Mr Brightside - Killers
Mrs. Robinson - Paul Simon
Music of the Night - Lloyd Webber
Music to Watch Girls By - Andy Williams
Musica Notturna di Madrid - Boccherini
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
My Funny Valentine - Richard Rodgers
My Girl - The Temptations
Nessum Dorma - Puccini
New York, New York - Kander
Nice Work if you can get it - Gershwin
Night and Day - Cole Porter
Nights in White Satin - Justin Hayward
Nimrod from Enigma Variations - Elgar
Nobody does it Better - Carly Simon
Norwegian Dance No. 2 - Grieg
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Numb - Linkin Park
Nutcracker Suite - Tchaikovsky
O Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini
O Sole Mio - di Capua
Ode to Joy - Beethoven
Officer Krupke from West Side Story - Bernstein
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
On the Street where you live - Loewe
On the Sunny Side of the Street - McHugh
One Day Like This - Elbow
One Hand, One Heart - Bernstein
One more step along the World I go
Only Girl in the World - Rihanna
Only Time - Enya
Orchestral Suite No 3 - Bach
Ordinary People - John Legend
Pachelbel’s Canon in D - Pachelbel
Palladio - Jenkins
Panis Angelicus - Franck
Paradise - Coldplay
Paragon Rag - Scott Joplin
Pas de Deux from Sleeping Beauty - Tchaikovsky
Passacaglia - Handel
Pavane - Faure
Pennies from Heaven - Arthur Johnson
Penny Lane - Lennon-McCartney
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps - Osvaldo Farres
Piano Concerto No 1 – ‘Andante’ - Mozart
Pie Jesu from ‘Requiem’ - Faure
Pizzicato Polka - Strauss
Plink, Plank, Plunk - Leroy Anderson
Polonnaise Militaire op 40 no1 - Chopin
Polovtsian Dances ‘Prince Igor’ - Borodin
Por Una Cabeza - Gardel (listen)
Prelude from ‘Te Deum’ - Charpentier
Prelude in E minor op 28 no4 - Chopin
Prelude to Carmen - Bizet
Prime Minister’s Love Theme (Love Actually) - Craig Armstrong
Prince of Denmark’s March - Clarke
Pulcinella – Overture - Stravinksy
Puttin’ on the Ritz - Berlin
Quartet from ‘Rigoletto’ - Verdi
Radetzky March - Strauss
RAF March Past - Walford Davies
Ragtime Dance - Joplin
Raindrops keep falling on my Head - Bacharach
Reverie - Debussy
Rialto Ripples - Gershwin
Romance (from ‘The Gadfly’) - Shostakovich
Rondo alla Turca - Mozart
Roses from the South - J Strauss II
Rule Britannia - Arne
Rule the World - Take That
S’wonderful - Gershwin
Salut D’Amour - Elgar
Santa Baby - Monroe
Satin Doll - Duke Ellington
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Scarf Dance - Cecile Chaminade
Schindler’s List Theme - John Williams
Schon Rosmarin - Kreisler
Second Time Around - Cole Porter
Seguidilla from ‘Carmen’ - Bizet
Send in the Clowns - Sondheim
She (“Notting Hill” soundtrack) - Elvis Costello
Sheep may safely Graze - Bach
Shiny Happy People - REM
Sicilienne - Von Paradis
Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder
Singing in the Rain - Nacio Herb Brown
Skater’s Waltz - Waldteufel
Slap that Bass - Gershwin
Slavonic Dances – various - Dvorak
Sleepers Wake - Bach
Sleeping Beauty Waltz - Tchaikovsky
Sleigh RIde - Anderson
Slipping through my Fingers - Abba
Smoke get in your Eyes (from Roberta) - Jerome Kern
Somebody loves me - Gershwin
Someone to Watch Over Me - Gershwin
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Harold Arlen
Son of a Preacher - Hurley & Wilkins
Songbird - Eva Cassidy
Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones
Spanish Dance - Moskovski
Spring from the ‘Four Seasons’ Violin Concertos - Vivaldi
Stabat Mater Dolorosa - Pergolesi
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Stand By Me - Ben E King
Stars and Stripes Forever - Sousa
Strangers in the Night - Bert Kaempfert
Summer (extracts from Four Seasons) - Vivaldi
Summer Holiday - Welch & Bennett
Summertime - Gershwin
Sunny Afternoon - Ray Davies
Sunrise, Sunset (from “Fiddler on the Roof”) - Jerry Bock
Sunshine on my Shoulders - Denver
Swanee - Gershwin
Sway - Dean Martin
Sweet Child of Mine - Guns n Roses
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Take a Chance on Me - Abba
Take Five - Paul Desmond
Take the ‘A’ train - Billy Strayhorn
Tambourin - Gossec
Tango - Albeniz
Thank you for the Music - Abba
That Certain Feeling - Gershwin
That’s Amore - Harry Warren
The Bird Catcher (from the Magic Flute) - Mozart
The Chain (Grand Prix theme) - Fleetwood Mac
The Christmas Song - Torme & Wells
The Folks who Live on the Hill - Jerome Kern
The Girl from Ipanema - Antonio Carlos Jobim
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair - Debussy
The One I Love - David Gray
The Swan - Saint-Saens
The Teddy Bear’s Picnic - J.W.Bratton
The Typewriter - Anderson
The Winner takes it All - Abba
Theme from Love Story - Francis Lai
Theme from ‘Poirot’ - Christopher Gunning
Theme from ‘Pride and Prejudice’ - Carl Davis
There’s no Business like Show Business - Irving Berlin
These Boots are made for Walking - Lee Hazelwood
They all laughed… - Gershwin
Think of Me - Lloyd Webber
Three Little Maids (from ‘Mikado’) - Arthur Sullivan
Thunder & Lightning Polka - J Strauss
To a Wild Rose - Macdowell
Tomo Y Obligo - Carlos Gardel
Tonight from West Side Story - Bernstein
Town Called Malice - The Jam
Traumerei / Dreaming - Schumann
Trepak (from the Nutcracker) - Tchaikovsky
Truely - Lionel Richie
Trumpet Tune in D - Purcell
Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke
Try a Little Tenderness (‘from ‘The Commitments’) - Andrew Strong
Tuba Tune in D major - C S Lang
Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
Up Where we Belong - Nitzsche & Sainte-Marie
Use Somebody - Kings of Leon
Valse Lente from Coppelia - Delibes
Violin Concerto – Adagio - Bruch
Violin Concerto-2nd movement - Mendelssohn
Viva la Vida - Coldplay
Wachet Auf - Bach
Walking the Dog - Gershwin
Waltz - Grieg
Waltz from Sleeping Beauty - Tchaikovsky
Waltz from Swan Lake - Tchaikovsky
Waltz of the Flowers - Tchaikovsky
Waltzing Matilda - Trad.
Washington Post - Sousa
Water Music Extracts - Handel
Waterloo - Abba (listen)
Waterloo Sunset - Ray Davies
We have all the Time in the World - Armstrong
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen - Grieg
Wedding March - Mendelssohn (listen)
Wedding March from ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ - Mendelssohn (listen)
Weekend in New England - Barry Manilow
What a Wonderful World - Weiss & Thiele
What is this thing called love? - Cole Porter
Whatever - Oasis
When I’m 64 - McCartney
When you were young - Killers
Where e’er you walk - Handel
William Tell Overture - Rossini
Wind Beneath my Wings - Silbar & Henley
Winter (extracts from Four Seasons) - Vivaldi
With or Without You - U2
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Wonderwall - Oasis
Yellow Submarine - Beatles
Yesterday - Lennon and McCartney
Yesterday Once More - The Bee Gees
YMCA - The Village People
You raise me up - Westlife
You’re the first, the last, my Everything - Barry White
You’re the Top - Cole Porter
Your Song - Elton John
You’re Beautiful - James Blunt
Zadok the Priest - Handel
Zorba’s Dance - Theodorakis / Trad