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Our Musical Repertoire

We’ve listed some examples below of popular items from our repertoire.

For a broader picture of our library, please download our full repertoire list

Custom Musical Arrangements

If you can't find what you are looking for on our list, and if you are unable to source suitable parts yourself, we would be happy to arrange music ourselves. As a professional arranger and music copyist, Pete has worked for, amongst others, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Jonathan Mills, director of the Edinburgh International Festival.

As a result, our own works are of an extraordinarily high standard, and can be commissioned to provide even more of a sense of occasion to our performance at your event. Where other groups might be content to play from piano scores or similar on no rehearsal, we recognise the importance of good arrangements, both from a customer's perspective and from that of our own satisfaction as performers!

Our ‘Greatest Hits’ include:

  • From Scottish and Irish traditional music…

    1. Londonderry Air & Highland Cathedral
    2. My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose & Flower of Scotland
    3. Auld Lang Syne
  • Through the Baroque Period…

    1. Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor
    2. Pachelbel’s Canon in D
    3. Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
    4. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti
    5. Orchestral Suites (including the Air on a G String
    6. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Sheep May Safely Graze & Sleepers Awake
    7. Handel’s The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba & Zadok the Priest
    8. The Water Music (including the famous Hornpipe in D & Music for the Royal Fireworks
  • Via Classical works…

    1. Beethoven’s Ode to Joy , Für Elise, Trios, & Quartets
    2. Haydn’s Trios & Quartets
    3. Mozart’s Divertimenti, Serenades (including Eine Kleine Nacht Musik)
    4. String Quartets & and opera arias
    5. Schubert’s Ave Maria & Boccherini’s Quartets
  • To those of the Romantics & Impressionists…

    1. Debussy’s Clair de Lune, & Satie’s Gymnopédies
    2. Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances
    3. Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite
    4. & selections from The Sleeping Beauty & Swan Lake
    5. Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite (Including Morning, & In the Hall of the Mountain King)
    6. Elgar's Salut d’Amour, Chanson de Matin
    7. Nimrod from the Enigma Variations
    8. Fauré’s Pavane (used in the 1990 World Cup) & Holst’s Planets suite
    9. Borodin's famous Nocturne Prokofiev’s March of the Montagues and Capulets
    10. Ravel’s Bolero (used by Torvill & Dean in the 1984 Winter Olympics)
  • From music of the Opera House…

    1. overtures from The Marriage of Figaro, & The Magic Flute (Mozart)
    2. Carmen (Bizet), William Tell (Rossini), Ruslan & Ludmilla (Glinka)
    3. arias such as O Mio Babbino Caro (From Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi)
    4. Nessun Dorma (from Puccini’s Turandot)
    5. O Sole Mio (Capua’s gift to Cornetto lovers everywhere)
    6. The Flower Duet (from Delibes’ Lakmé)
    7. Intermezzo (from Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana)
  • And dance based idioms…

    1. Waltzes, including The Blue Danube (Strauss)
    2. The Waltz of the Flowers (Tchaikovsky)
    3. Polkas, including Strauss’ Pizzicato, & Tristch Trastch Polkas
    4. Tango numbers, including Jealousy (Gade) & La Cumparsita (Rodriguez)
  • Two hours’ worth of more popular & contemporary music…

    1. from shows such as West Side Story & Singin’ in the Rain
    2. Me and My Girl & My Fair Lady to name but a few
    3. films, such as Braveheart, The Mission & La Vita e Bella
    4. plus many legendary songs, including Moon River, Dream a Little Dream
    5. Pennies From Heaven, What a Wonderful World
    6. Can’t Take my Eyes off You & Fly Me to the Moon
    7. a large selection of pop songs from the likes of The Beatles and the Beach Boys
    8. and plenty of Cole Porter (Anything Goes, Let’s Do It etc.)
    9. and Gershwin (Summertime, I Got Rhythm etc.)
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