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Bel Canto Strings Repertoire

Traditional Wedding/Classical music selections: Adagio from “Organ Sonata No. 2 Op.65" (Mendelssohn) Air on the G String (Bach) Alleluja from “Exultate Jubilate” (Mozart) Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No.1 in D Op.11 (Tchaikovsky) Andante from “ Concert #21" (Mozart) Andante from String Quartet No.13 in a minor “Rosamunde” D. 804 (Schubert) Aria from Xerxes (Handel) Arioso (Bach) Ave Maria (Schubert) Ave Maria (Bach‐Gounod) Beethoven String Quartets (Complete) Bist Du bei Mir (Bach) Brandenburg Concerto No.1‐6 (Bach) Bridal Chorus (Wagner) Canon in D (J. Pachelbel) Christmas Concerto/Concerto Grosso in g minor Op.6 No.8 (Corelli) Claire de Lune (C. Debussy) Con Te Partiro (Francesco Sartori) Divertimenti (Mozart) Dvorak Quartet in F major Op. 96 “American” E Lucevan le Stelle from “Tosca” (G. Puccini) Entrance of the Queen of Sheba (Handel) The Four Seasons – complete (Vivaldi) Greensleeves (Traditional English) Haydn String Quartets (Complete) If With All Your Hearts from “Elijah” (Mendelssohn) Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach) Largo from “Winter/The Four Seasons” (Vivaldi) Liebestraum (Liszt) Lords Prayer (A. Mallotte) March from “The Marriage of Figaro” (Mozart) Meditation from Thais (Massenet) Mozart String Quartets (Complete) My Heart Ever Faithful (Bach) Nessun Dorma (G. Pucinni) Ode to Joy (Beethoven) Overture to the “Marriage of Figaro” (Mozart) Palladio (Karl Jenkins) Panis Angelicus (Franck) Prayer (Hugo Wolf) Rondeau (Mouret) Sheep may Safely Graze (Bach) Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tchaikovsky) (Traditional Wedding Music – Continued) Suite from the “Fairy Queen” (Purcell) Te Deum (Charpentier) Thaxted from Jupiter Chorale (G. Holst) Thou Ring on my Finger ( R. Schumann) Three Scottish Dances Traumeri (Schumann) Tune (Purcell) Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke) Variation No. 18 from “Rhapsoday on a theme by Paganini” (Rachmaninoff) Wachet Auf (Bach) Water Music Suite (Handel) Wedding March (Mendelssohn) Wedding Processional from The Sound of Music (Richard Rogers) Where’er You Walk (G. F. Handel)

Jewish Wedding Repertoire: Bashan Haba’a Dodi Li (My Beloved is Mine, and I am His) Dona Dona Én Kélohénu Erev Ba (Evening Comes) Erev Shel Shoshanim (Evening of Roses) Hana’ava Babanot (The Fairest of Maidens) Hava Nagila Hévénu Shalom Aléchem Jerusalem of Gold (Yershalayim Shel Zahav) Mayim, Mayim Nigun (Tune) Ose Shalom Rabbi Elimelech Medley Siman Tov (Congratulations – Good Luck!) S’u Sh’orim (Look Up to the Gates) Tum Balalaika (Play Balalaika) V’ha’er E’ne’nu (Enlighten Our Eyes to Your Torah) Waves of the Danube (“Anniversary Waltz”) Y’did Nefesh (Beloved of My Soul)

Bel Canto String Quartet Pop/Rock Repertoire

Classic Rock/Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night () All My Love (Led Zeppelin) All You Need is Love (Beatles) Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) Can’t Buy Me Love (Beatles) Day Tripper (The Beatles) Do You want to know a secret ( and McCartney) Eleanor Rigby (Beatles; Lennon and McCartney) Grow Old with Me ( Lennon) Here Comes the Sun (Beatles) Imagine () In My Life (Beatles) I Should Have Known Better (Beatles) Purple Haze (Hendrix) Satisfaction (Rolling Stones) Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin) Ticket to Ride (Beatles) When I’m 64 The Beatles Yellow Submarine The Beatles

Pop/Rock: Abba Medley (Andersson and Ulvaeus) Annie’s (John Denver) All The Way (sung by Sinatra; James van Heusen) Ashokan Farewell (Jay Ungar) At Last (Etta James) Bad Day (Daniel Powter) Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve) Bridge Over Troubled Water () Can’t Help Falling in Love (Weis‐Peretti‐Creator) Carolina in my Mind (James Taylor) Con Te Partiro (Francesco Sartori) Everlong (Foo Fighters; Dave Grohl) From This Moment (Shania Twain) Georgia on my Mind (H. Carmichael) Hallelujah (sung by Jeff Buckley – music by Leonard Cohen) Have I Told You Lately (Rod Stewart Song; Van Morrison) Heaven (Bryan Adams) I Believe (For Every Drop of Rain…; memorably sung by Sinatra; Drake, Shirl, and Stillman) I Do, I Do (Abba/ Anderson and Ulvaeus) I Get a Kick Out of You (Cole Porter) If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)Annie’s Song I’ll Be There For You/ Friends Theme Song (Skloff/Willis) In My Place Coldplay It Had to Be You (Isham Jones) I’ve Had the Time of my Life (Previte, et al) I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor) La Vie en Rose (Louiguy) () Music of the Night from Phantom of the (A.L.Webber) Oh, Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison) Only Time (Enya) Prayer (David Foster; Sung by Celine Dion) The Rose (McBroom) Roxanne () Sir Duke (Stevie Wonder) Summertime (from Porgy and Bess; George Gershwin) A Time for Us Love, theme from Romeo and Juliet ( Rota) Unchained Melody from “Ghost” (Alex North) Unforgettable, sung by (Irving Gordon) Valentine (Jim Brickman) (We Have) All The Time in The World, sung by Louis Armstrong (John Barry) What A Wonderful World (Weiss and Thiele) What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? (Legrand) When I Fall in Love (Victor Young) Yellow (Coldplay) You Raise Me Up, sung by Josh Groban (Lovland and Graham) You’re The Inspiration (Foster) You Are So Beautiful (Joe Cocker) Your Song (Elton John)

Broadway/Musical Theater/T.V and Movie Themes: All I Ask of You, from Phantom of the Opera (A.L.Webber) All the Way, sung by Sinatra (Jimmy Van Heusen) Apollo 13 End Credits () Beauty and the Beast Theme (Menken) Cabaret (Kander) Chariots of Fire (Vangelis) Circle of Life from “Lion King” (Elton John) Come What May from Moulin Rouge (Baerwald) Edelweiss from “Sound of Music (Rodgers) Hallelujah from “Shrek”, memorably sung by Jeff Buckley (Leonard Cohen) I Dreamed a Dream from Les Mis (Schonberg) I’ll Be There For You/Friends Theme Song (Skloff/Willis) I’ll Cover You, from “Rent” (Jonathan Larsen) I’ve Got a Crush On You, from “Treasure Girl” (Gershwin) La Bamba, Mexican Folk Song (adaptation by Richie Valens) La Vie en Rose (Edith Piaf/Louiguy) Linus and Lucy (Guaraldi) Love Story from Love Story(Williams) The Ludlows from Legends of the Fall (Horner) The Man from Snowy River (Bruce Rowland) Mission: Impossible Theme (Lalo Schifrin) Music of the Night (from Phantom of the Opera; A. L. Webber) New York, New York (Kander) One Hand, One Heart from “West Side Stor y” (L. Bernstein) Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark (John Williams) Somewhere Out There (James Horner) Sound of Music Theme (Rodgers) Star Trek The Motion Picture (Jerry Goldsmith) Sun and Moon from Miss Saigon (Schonberg) Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof (Bock/Harnick) A Tale as Old as Time (from Beauty and the Beast; A. Menken) Theme from E.T. (John Williams) Theme from Jurassic Park (John Williams) Till There Was You from “The Music Man” (Meredith Wilson) Throne Room from “Star Wars” (John Williams)

Jazz/Swing/Big Band/Latin: All of You (Porter) At Last (Etta James) Begin the Beguine (Porter) Besame Mucho (Consuelo Velazquez) Birmingham Breakdown (Ellington) Creole Love Call (Ellington) Fly me to the Moon (Bart Howard) How High the Moon (Hamilton) I Get a Kick Out of You (Cole Porter) I Love Paris (Porter) It Had to Be You (Isham Jones) It’s Only a Paper Moon (Arlen) I’ve Got You Under my Skin (Porter) La Bamba (Mexican Folk Song – adaptation by Richie Valens) New York, New York (Kander) Night and Day (Porter) Sophisticated Lady (Ellington) Take Five (Desmond)

Waltzes: Anniversary Waltz (Ivanovici) Artist’s Life (J. Strauss) On the Beautiful Blue Danube (J. Strauss) Emperor Waltzes (J. Strauss) Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tchaikovsky) Viennese Blood (J. Strauss) Argentine Tango A Media Luz (Donato) Acorazado Rivadavia (Villoldo) Calambre (Piazzolla) El Choclo (Villoldo) La Cumparsita (Rodriguez)Libertango (Piazzolla) Por Una Cabeza (Gardel) Tres y Dos (Troilo)