Repertoire

The Alpine String Quartet has a wide repertoire of classical favorites, popular music, jazz, ragtime, and Broadway musicals. Below is a listing of repertoire for your cocktail hour, dinner party, wedding ceremony,
reception, or special event.

Classical and Baroque Favorites
Air   Bach
Alleluia   Mozart
Arioso   Bach
Ave Maria   Schubert
Brandenberg Concerto No. 2   Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3   Bach
Concerto Grosso in D   Vivaldi
Divertimenti No. 1 – 3   Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik   Mozart
The Four Seasons   Vivaldi
Flower Duet from Lakme   Delibes
Gabriel’s Oboe   Marricone
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring   Bach
Kanon   Pachelbel
Largo from the Double Violin Concerto   Bach
Lark String Quartet   Haydn
La Rejouissance   Handel
Liebestraum   Lizst
Meditation   Naughtin
Nimrod Variations   Elgar
Ode to Joy   Beethoven
Panis Angelicus   Frank
Passacale   Handel
Pavane   Faure
Quartet in G, K. 387   Mozart
Rondeau   Mouret
Sonata   Telemann
Sheep May Safely Graze   Bach
Sonata No. 4 in D   Handel
Violin Concerto No. 2, Mvmt, 1   Bach
Water Music Suite   Handel
  • Air
  • Bouree
  • Hornpipe
  • Finale
Romantic and Modern
Adagio Cantabile from Pathetique Sonata   Beethoven
Adagio for Strings   Barber
Allegretto (after Boccherini)   Kreisler
“Che Gelida Manina” from “La Boheme”   Puccini
Clair de lune   Debussy
Czardas from “Die Fledermaus”   J. Strauss, Jr.
Entr’acte to Act III from “Carmen”   Bizet
Entr’acte to Act IV from “Carmen”   Bizet
“Flower Song” from “Carmen”   Bizet
The Girl With The Flaxen Hair   Debussy
Golden Earrings   Traditional
Golliwog’s Cakewalk   Debussy
3 Gymnopedies   Satie
“Gypsy Life”   Hebert
“Habenera” from “Carmen”   Bizet
Hoe-down from “Rodeo”   Copland
Hungarian Dances: Nos 1 – 7; 10, 11, & 21   Brahms
Largo from the “New World Symphony”   Dvorak
The Old Refrain   Kreisler
Pavane our une infante defunte   Ravel
Pavane   Faure
Prelude No. 2   Gershwin
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini   Rachmaninov
Romance   Shostakovich
Romanza Andaluza   Sarasate
Rumanian Folk Dances   Bartok
“Simple Gifts” Fugue   Naughtin
Son of the Putza, Op. 134, No. 2   Keler
Tambourin Chinois   Kreisler
“Vilia” from the “Merry Widow”   Lehar
Vocalise   Rachmaninov
Broadway, Pops and Latin
“America” from “West Side Story”   Bernstein
“Annie” Highlights   Strousse
Ashokan Farewell from “The Civil War”   Ungar
“As Time Goes By”   Hupfeld
Bachianas Brazileiras No. 5   Villa-Lobos
“Begin the Beguine”   Porter
Blue Tango   Anderson
“Chicago”   Fisher
“Come In From the Rain”   Manchester
Country Melody   Traditional
Danzas Argentinas No. 2   Ginastera
“El Choclo” Tango   Villoldo
“Embraceable You”   Gershwin
“Evergreen”   Streisand
“Feelings”   Albert
“Do It Again”   Gershwin
“Forgotten Dreams”   Anderson
“For Just A Moment” from “St. Elmo’s Fire”   Foster
“Goodbye To Love”   Carpenter
“I Feel Pretty” from “West Side Story”   Bernstein
“I Got Rhythm” Variations   Gershwin
“I Love Paris”   Porter
“If You Could Read My Mind”   Lightfoot
“In The Mood”   Garland
“Jalousie” Tango   Gade
“The King And I” Highlights   Rodgers
  • “March of the Siamese Children”
  • “I Whistle A Happy Tune”
  • “Getting To Know You”
  • “Something Wonderful”
  • “Hello Young Lovers”
  • “Shall We Dance”
“La Bamba”   Traditional
“Laura”   Raskin
“Leaving On A Jet Plane”   Denver
“Loony Tune Fugue”   Naughtin
Love Theme From the “Godfather”   Rota
“Manha de Carnical” from “Black Orpheus”   Bonfa
“Maria” from “West Side Story”   Berstein
“Memory” from “Cats”   Lloyd-Webber
“Misty”   Garner
“My Heart Will Go On” from “Titanic”   Horner
Natal Variations (Variation on “Happy Birthday”   Naughtin
“New York, New York”   Kander
“Noites Cariocas”   Bandolim
“One Hand, One Heart” from “West Side Story”   Bernstein
“The Orange Blossom Special”   Rouse
“Over The Rainbow”   Arlen
“Red Sails in the Sunset”   Williams
“Purple Haze”   Hendrix
“Romeo and Juliet” Love Theme   Rota
“Send in the Clowns”   Sondheim
“Someone to Watch Over Me”   Gershwin
Six By the Beatles   Lennon and McCartney
  • “Day Tripper”
  • “A Hard Day’s Night”
  • “Eleanor Rigby”
  • “Yellow Submarine”
  • “Yesterday”
  • “When I’m Sixty-four”
  • “Back In The U.S.S.R.”
“Somewhere” from “West Side Story”   Bernstein
“Stormy Weather”   Arlen
“Suddenly”   Diamond
“The Summer Knows” theme from “Summer of 42”   Legrand
Tanguedia III   Piazzolla
“Tico-Tico”   Abreu
“Tonight” from “West Side Story”   Bernstein
“Truly”   Richie
“What’s New?”   Haggart
“What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?”   Legrand
“You Light Up My Life”   Brooks
“You’re The Inspiration”   Foster
Waltzes
“Belle of the Ball” Waltz   Anderson
“Blue Danube”   J. Strauss, Jr.
Caprice Viennois   Kreisler
“Danube Waves” (“Anniversary Waltz”)   Ivanovici
“Die Fledermaus” Waltzes   J. Strauss, Jr.
Liebesfreud   Kreisler
“Merry Widow” Waltzes   Lehar
“Midnight Bells” Waltz   Kreisler
Musetta’s Waltz from “La Boheme”   Puccini
Richard Rodgers’ Waltzes   Rogers
  • “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”
  • “Falling in Love With Love”
  • “My Favorite Things”
  • “The Carousel Waltz”
“Der Rosenkavalier” Waltzes   R. Strauss
Saturday Night Waltz from “Rodeo”   Copland
Schon Rosmarin   Kreisler
Tales From the Vienna Woods   J. Strauss Jr.
Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time   Stolz
Waltzes   Chopin
Waltz From Symphony No. 8 in G   Dvorak
“Wiener Blut” Waltzes   J. Strauss, Jr.