This highly regarded string quartet is a top choice across the country for couples planning weddings and civil partnerships, as well as event coordinators and party planners! Christmas Songs Available! Prices: From £636 +
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"I live abroad and had to conduct my search for a string quartet for my wedding through the internet.
Alive Network was an amazing find as they have a comprehensive website, covering all areas of enquiry to enable a confident choice. All of my corespondence, enquiries and questions pre booking were dealt with promptly and professionally which made booking the quartet through this company very easy.
I was equally impressed with the musicians I chose for my wedding. Again, they were professional, gave a high standard of performance and were very easy to deal with pre wedding.
I would highly recommend Alive Network and Gold Strings for your wedding/event entertainment/music as they were a professional entity to work with and a fabulous part of my special day. Thank you to both."
Line up:Standard line up: 2 violins, 1 Viola, 1 Cello.
*Duo and Trio also available (please see booking options).
Highlights *Talented group of musicians *Varied repertoire ranging from pop to classical *Great for adding a touch of class to a range of events *Previous clients include Audio, HSBC, John Lewis and Mercedes. *Members of the quartet have also performed with Kanye West, Goldfrapp, Russell Watson and many more! *Duo and trio line up's also available!
Gold Strings formed in spring 2005 and quickly earned the reputation of being an elegant, charismatic and talented ensemble.
Performing at weddings, functions and events from London to South Wales, the Gold Strings cover much of the UK and are recommended suppliers with a number of venues.
With a vast repertoire of over 300 pieces ranging from Mozart to Metallica, all types of musical taste is more than catered for! Gold Strings are also able to produce specific arrangements of pieces not currently on their repertoire list. Please see booking options or speak to an Alive Network booking agent for more details.
Previous Experience All four members of the ensemble are professionally trained and experienced, performing with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and many more. Commercially, Gold String's musicians have also worked with such artists as Kanye West, Goldfrapp, Katherine Jenkins, Russell Watson, The Blackout Dopamine, Culprit One, Three Colours Red and many more.
Previous corporate clients include Audi, HSBC, John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, University of London, Mercedes Benz, Stills Design, BMW, County Mall Crawley.
Wedding Packagage Gold Strings offer the following packages for weddings;
Silver (Wedding Ceremony) -Performance at the Wedding Ceremony & 30 minutes before the ceremony. -Ceremony can inlclude: As guests arrive, Bridal procession, Signing of the register, Bride & Groom recession, As guests leave.
Gold (Wedding Ceremony & Drinks Reception) - As above (See Silver package) - Plus up to 2 hours background music for the drinks reception.
Platinum (Wedding Ceremony, Drinks Reception & Wedding Breakfast) - As previous 2 packages - Plus background music of 2 hours during the wedding breakfast or until coffee/speeches (whichever is first)
Private and Corporate Packages Gold Strings offer the following packages for private parties and corporate events;
Private and Corporate 1 -Up to 1 hour of background music
Private and Corporate 2 -Up to 2 hours of background music
Private and Corporate 3 -Up to 3 hours of background music
Gold Strings's Set List / Repertoire
Classical Bach- Ach lieben Christen, seid getrost/Loure from Third Suite for Cello/Air on the G string/Prelude from English Suite No. 3/Arioso/Sarabande from The first French Suite/Bach Selection/Sheep May Safely Graze/Double Violin Concerto/St John’s Chorale/Fughetta/St Matthew’s Chorale/Jesu Joy of Our Desiring/Wachet Auf Beethoven- Für Elise/Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Mvt. 1/Ode to Joy Bizet- Cabañera from Carmen/Toreador's song from Carmen/Habanera Blow- Chaconne Borodin- Nocturne Brown- Waltz Bruch- Adagio from the Violin Concerto Burtch- Simple String Quartets Charpontier- Te Deum Chopin- Grande Valse Brilliante/Prelude in E minor/Nocturne in Eb Major/Valse/Polonaise Clark- Trumpet Voluntary/Copeland/Hoe Down Debussy- Berceuse/Le pas Español/Cakewalk/Mi-a-ou/Clair de Lune/Tendresse/Golliwog’s Cakewalk/The Girl with the Flaxen Hair/Kitty-Valse Delibes-Flower Duet/Intermezzo from Sylvia/Ditterdorf/Minuet from Quartet in Eb Major Dvorak- Finale from Sonatina in G Minor/Humoresque Elgar- Adagio/Idylle/Beau Brummel/Larghetto from Serenade/Chanson de Matin/Nimrod/Chanson de Nuit/Salut d'Amour Fauré- Berceuse/Pavane/Foxtrot Wouf/Mi-a-ou Le Jardin de Dolly Franck- Panis Angelicus Fux- Menuet Gounod- Ave Maria Grieg- Gavotte from Holberg Suite/La Mort D'Ase Handel- All We Like Sheep from the Messiah/Largo from Xerxes/Alla Hornpipe/Lascia chi Piagna/Arrival of the Queen of Sheba/Menuette/Concerto Grosso Op6 No1 Ombra Mai Fu/Halleluia Chorus from the Messiah/Water Music Suite in D/Hornpipe/Water Music Suite in F/La Rejouissance Zadok the Priest/Largo Haydn- Adagio from Quartet in G Major/Sinfonia/Minuet from Quartet in D Minor/Symphony No. 77, Mvt. 4/Serenata Karl Jenkins- Adiemus Theme/Palladio Khachaturian- Adagio from Sparticus Krieger- Minuet Lang- Tuba Tune Lehar- Waltz from The Merry Widow Mascagni- Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana Massenet- Meditation from Thais Mendelssohn- Wedding March/Intermezzo from Quartet Op.13/Song Without Words, No.35 Monti- Czardas Mozart-Allelujiah from 'Exultate Jubilate/Divertimento in F/Andante from Piano Concerto Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Bei Mannern from the Magic Flute/Minuetto/Der Vogelfanger from the Magic Flute/Quartet K 575 No 21/Divertimento in B/Quartet KV 387 No 14/Divertimento in D/Ave Verum Corpus/Andante from Quartet No. 8 Offenbach- Barcarolle/Medley/Galop Pachelbel- Canon/Gigue Puccini- Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly/Rondo/Nessun Dorma/Trumpet Tune/O Mio Babbino Caro/Two Rondeaux from Abdelazar Rachmaninov- Paganini Variations Ravel- Bolero Satie- Gymnopédie Schubert- Moment Musical Schumann-Traumerei/From the Album for the Young/Song, To Sunshine Shostakovich- Waltz from Jazz Suite No.2 Staples-Midday at St James' Park/Sunset at Covent Garden/Sunrise at Golden Square Strauss-On the Beautiful Blue Danube/Tritsch-Tratsch Polka Tchaikovsky- Chanson Triste/Sleeping Beauty Waltz/Legend/Swan Lake Finale/Morning Song/Waltz from Swan Lake Telemann- Sonata Vaughan Williams- Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis/Linden Lea/Greensleeves Vivaldi- Autumn from the Four Seasons/Winter from the Four Seasons/Summer from the Four Seasons Wagner- Bridal Chorus/Ride of the Valkyries Warlock- Basse Dance
Jazz / Musicals / Light / Television / Film Anderson-A Trumpeter’s Lullaby/Plink, Plank, Plonk/Blue Tango/Sandpaper Ballet/Belle of the Ball/Serenata/Forgotten Dreams/The Syncopated Clock/Horse and Buggy/The Typewriter/Jazz Legato/The Waltzing Cat/Jazz Pizzicato Badelt- Pirates of the Caribbean Barry- Goldfinger Bart- As Long as He Needs Me/Food Glorious Food Bassey- Diamonds are Forever Berlin- There's No Business like Showbusiness Bernstein- America/One Hand, One Heart/Maria from West Side Story/Somewhere Brown- Country Dance Brymn- La Rumba Carlos Jobim- The Girl From Ipanema Collins/Leigh- Cock Linnet Debussy- Fauna & Flora of Japan Devorzon- The Warriors Theme Tune Etta James- At Last Gershwin- An American in Paris/Love Walked In /But Not For Me Mine/Concerto in F/Nice Work if You Can Get It/Foggy Day/Rhapsody in Blue/For You, For Me, For Evermore/S'Wonderful/He loves She loves/econd Rhapsody/Somebody Loves Me/I Got Rhythm/Summertime/I'll Build Astaire Way to Paradise/Swansea/I’ve Got Rhythm/The Man I Love/Liza/They Can’t Take That Away From Me/Love is Here to Stay Glover-Kind- I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside Goodwin- The Trap (London Marathon Theme Tune) Hein- Tango del Maurice Howard- Fly Me to the Moon Jones- It Had to be You Joplin- Bethena/Roseleaf Rag/Country Club/Solace Jordan- Is You is or is You Ain’t ma Baby Lemare- Moonlight and Roses Kenbrovin (West Ham Theme Tune)- I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles Koji Kondo- Zelda Lloyd Webber-Bustopher Jones/Music of the Night/Jesus Christ Superstar/Old Deuteronomy/Memory/Phantom of the Opera/Mr Mistoffelees/All I Ask of You Mancini- Moon River Martin- Live and Let Die Martin, Dean- That’s Amore McLean- Czardas/Serenata/FandangoTango/Rhumba/Tango Chromatique Menken- Beauty and the Beast Morricone- Gabriel’s Oboe/Nella Fantasia Newley- What Kind of Fool am I? Norman- James Bond Theme Porter- Anything Goes/Night & Day/I Get a Kick Out of You/What is This Thing Called Love?/Just One of Those Things/You're the Top Post- Theme from the A-Team Rodgers & Hammerstein- You'll Never Walk Alone Rota- Theme from The Godfather/Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet Sam Pottle / Jim Henson- Theme from The Muppet Show Sartori- Time to Say Goodbye Schönberg (Claude-Michel) Stars I Dreamed a Dream Shore- May it Be from Lord of the Rings Silvestri- Theme from Forrest Gump Simon- Nobody Does It Better Sinatra- New York, New York Strayhorn- Chelsea Bridge/Take The A Train
Popular Adele- Hometown Glory Aerosmith- I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing Andre/Schwant- Dream a Little Dream Beatles- A Hard Day’s Night/If I Fell/All You Need is Love/Imagine/And I Love Her/Lady Madonna/Eight Days a Week/Michelle/Get Back/Norwegian Wood/Good Day Sunshine Paperback Writer/Got To Get You Into My Life/Strawberry Fields/Hello Goodbye/The Fool On The Hill/Here, There and Everywhere/Tomorrow Never Knows/Hey Jude/When I’m 64/I Feel Fine/World Without Love Bjőrk-Bachelorette/Joga Blur- The Universal Bryan Adams- Everything I Do I Do It For You/Heaven The Carpenters- Close to You/We’ve Only Just Begun Cohen- Hallelujah Coldplay- Viva la Vida Dave Grohl- Everlong Delerium- Silence Desreé- Kissing You from Romeo & Juliet Duffy- Mercy Elbow- One Day Like This Elton John- Candle in the Wind Fox- Killing Me Softly With His Song The Fray- How to Save a Life Gade- Jalousie Graham- You Raise Me Up Ham & Evans- Without You Hamilton- Cry Me a River Iron Maiden- Can I Play with Madness Jackson 5- I Want You Back Journey- Don’t Stop Believing Kelly Clarkson- A Moment Like This Knight- Everlasting Love Manic Street Preachers- Design for Life Metallica- Fade to Black (Intro)/Nothing Else Matters Mika- Happy Ending Morrisey-There is a Light Pearl Jam- Black Peter Gabriel- Book of Love Phil Collins- A Groovy Kind of Love Queen- The Show Must Go On/Don’t Stop Me Now /Too Much Love Will Kill You Robbie Williams-Angels Sade-By Your Side Scissor Sisters-I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ Shania Twain-A Moment Like This Sheetz-Without Thee Sigur Ros-Hoppipolla Simon & Garfunkel-Bridge Over Troubled Water Snow Patrol-Chasing Cars/Run Sting-Fields of Gold Take That-Greatest Day The Cure-Love Cats The Shapeshifters-Lola’s Theme The Verve-Bittersweet Symphony Train-Drops of Jupiter Westlife-The Rose/Flying Without Wings
Folk / Traditional / Religious African/American- Go Tell It On The Mountain Anderson- Fiddle Faddle Anon- Alouette/The Geese in the Bogs/The Friendly Beasts/As With Gladness Men of Old English- A Great & Mighty Wonder/Jerusalem Fletcher- Fiddle Dance/Folk Tune Gibbs- Above Blea Tarn/Winster Valley/Loewswater: Calm after Storm Hymn- Gabriel's Message Irish- Londonderry Air/Danny Boy/The Star of County Down/Toss the Feathers Jewish-Siman Tov Morley- It was a lover and his lass Nelson- Prairie Song Religious- Lo He Comes with Clouds Descending/O Come Little Children/Lord is My Shepherd/Of the Father's Love Begotten/Lord of All Hopefulness/Praise My Soul/Love Divine/This is the Truth Sent From Above Scottish- My love is like a red red rose Speckert- Fiddle Tunes Thorp- Irish Sherry Traditional- Royal Engineers’ March Ungar- Ashokan Farewell Welsh-All Through the Night/Deryn Du/By Cool Siloams Shady Rill/Llety'r Bugail/Captain Morgan’s March/Myfanwy/Endris/Rachie/Aberystwyth/Suo gan/Calon Lan/The Ash Grove/David of the White Rock/The Blind Harper
Christmas Traditional Anon- Six Renaissance Christmas Carols Adam- O Holy Night! Traditional- Away in a Manger/Medieval 2/Carol of the Birds/Medieval 4/Carol Unknown/O Come, O Come Emmanuel/;Christians Awake!/Once in Royal David's City/Deck the Halls/Pat a Pan/Ding Dong Merrily on High/Shepherd's Farewell/Gaudete/Sussex Carol/God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman/The Coventry Carol/Good King Wenceslas/The First Nowell/Hark the Herald/The Holly and the Ivy/Holly and The Ivy/Veni, Veni/I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day/We Gather Together To Ask The Lord's Blessing /I Saw Three Ships/We Three Kings/Joy to the World /We Wish You a Merry Christmas /Medieval 1/Wexford Carol Corelli- Christmas Concerto French- Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella German- In Dulce Jubilo Grüber- Silent Night Spanish- Dadmé Albrícias/Ríu, Ríu, Chíu/E la Dondon, Verges Maria
Christmas Popular Anderson- Sleigh Ride Berlin- White Christmas Bernard- Winter Wonderland Feliciano- Feliz Navidad Javits / Springer- Santa Baby MacGowan / Finer- Fairy Tale of New York Marks- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Martelli- Christmas Medley Styne- Let it Snow! Tormé & Wells- The Christmas Song Traditional- Jingle Bells Willson- It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas
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Customer reviews for Gold Strings
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03/09/2012 Gold Strings
"I live abroad and had to conduct my search for a string quartet for my wedding through the internet.
Alive Network was an amazing find as they have a comprehensive website, covering all areas of enquiry to enable a confident choice. All of my corespondence, enquiries and questions pre booking were dealt with promptly and professionally which made booking the quartet through this company very easy.
I was equally impressed with the musicians I chose for my wedding. Again, they were professional, gave a high standard of performance and were very easy to deal with pre wedding.
I would highly recommend Alive Network and Gold Strings for your wedding/event entertainment/music as they were a professional entity to work with and a fabulous part of my special day. Thank you to both."
Customer review by Gabrielle Harrison
09/09/2011 Gold Strings
"The quartet were truly fantastic and made the wedding so special.
Rae & Rob were so pleased and happy with everything, especially the overwhelming response to your professionalism...and fabulous playing of course!
The song list also got people talking/dancing; especially as the guests were amazed to here songs like 'Fight for this Love' and 'Don't Stop Believin' played in such a fabulous way- so thank you, your arrangements were truly magnificent.
Hopefully I will get to work with you again in the future, be it another family wedding or through work.
I'm not sure how many times I can possibly fit thank you into one email but would just like to stress how fabulous the quartet were!
"
Customer review by Sarah Vincent (Wedding Planner)
07/09/2011 Gold Strings
"Gold Strings were very professional and created the perfect ambiance for my son's wedding. Nothing was too much trouble, we chose a piece of music that was not included in their repetoire & they learnt it with only 2 weeks to got before the wedding.
We had a truly perfect day and they added to this, a huge thank you. Being able to book through an agent was also very reassuring."
Customer review by Annette Slater
05/05/2011 Gold Strings
"This is just quick note to thank you…for such a fantastic performance at our afternoon tea party…It really made the event. We had numerous compliments from the guests throughout the day/evening (approx 190 in total!).
Your style really worked well at the venue and the nature of the event - everyone appreciated your music whilst at the same time being able to talk to each other. You are all genuine nice people and it really shows through your performance. It looked as though you were all really enjoying yourselves and the guests noticed it too.
You selected the right tone of music at the right times and managed to organise yourselves without me having to boss you around which is great!! True professionals.
I will certainly continue to recommend your services to any bride, corporate event planner and friend in the future!
Once again, thank you all so much for such a great performance – you did us proud!
"
Customer review by Nicola Stoddart
17/03/2011 Gold Strings
"Gold Strings helped make our wedding so memorable. They were able to combine classical tunes with more contemporary songs to give us exactly what we were looking for and we would definitely recommend them."
Customer review by James Caswell
01/09/2010 Gold Strings
"On behalf of the Mayor of Tonbridge & Malling, Cllr Sue Murray, I am writing to thank you…for providing us with a delightful afternoon of music for the Garden Party. All the guests and the Mayor thoroughly enjoyed themselves."
Customer review by Tonbridge Borough Council
26/07/2010 Gold Strings
"A well presented, professional and very talented quartet who made our day extra special. "
Customer review by Laura Cochran
01/07/2006 Gold Strings
"Thank you and your colleagues for being such a lovely part of my daughters wedding on Sunday. Many people commented on how enjoyable the music was."
Customer review by Gwyneth Barnwell
01/06/2006 Gold Strings
"Hi Emma,
I know Andy has already thanked you for all you did for us on our
Wedding day. But I just wanted to personally thank you for a wonderful job
Well done. My entrance music was perfect and the rest no one could
have chosen better. I'm just sorry I didn't get to introduce myself
Personally, the day went by so quick!
Everyone said how professional the music was and of course, we'll pass
your details on to anyone who's looking for something similar in
future.
Thanks once again - you had a huge part in making our day perfect.
Regards,
Ginny.
"
Customer review by Ginny
01/03/2006 Gold Strings
"Just wanted to thank you and your fellow musicians for helping to make David and Charlie’s wedding so enjoyable last Friday.
Of course I’m bound to be a bit biased about ‘cellos, but I wasn’t the only one who commented on how lovely it was to have music in the afternoon.
Your selection for the evening reception was spot on! And although there was quite a bit of chatter for you to compete with, I spoke to quite a number of people who enjoyed listening to you all.
Many thanks again,
Best wishes
Jenny
"
Customer review by Jenny
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