About Intercity Strings

Founded in 1988, Intercity Strings’ international players are all members of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra

The quartet has a busy schedule of serious concerts as well as performances of lighter music at social engagements.

The quartet covers a wide repertoire from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, through the famous popular quartets of the Classic and Romantic periods to Viennese Waltzes, Gershwin and Cole Porter.

Ideal For: background music for wedding service and reception, house party, garden party, product release, background situations

Also available as a trio

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Intercity Strings setlist

Albéniz :
Tango
Albinoni-Giazotto :
Adagio
J.S. Bach :
Air “on the G String” from Suite No. 3 in D
Badinerie
1st movement from Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G
2nd movement from Double Violin Concerto
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Sheep May Safely Graze
Sleepers Wake
Bizet :
Prelude from Carmen
Boccherini :
Minuet
Clarke :
“Purcell’s” Trumpet Tune
“Purcell’s” Trumpet Voluntary
Delibes :
Flower Duet from Lakmé
Dvorák :
Humoresque
Elgar :
Chanson de Matin
Salut d’Amour
Fauré :
Pavane
Franck :
Panis Angelicus

Handel :
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Largo
Hornpipe from The Water Music
Réjouissance from The Royal Fireworks
Where’er You Walk from Semele
Mahler :
Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Massenet :
Méditation from Thaïs
Mendelssohn :
Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Monti :
Czárdás
Mouret :
Rondeau
Mozart :
Alleluia from Exsultate Jubilate
Ave Verum Corpus
Divertimenti
Eine kleine Nachtmusic

Offenbach :
Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann
Pachelbel :
Canon in D

Puccini :

O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi

Quando m’en vo from La Bohème

Purcell :
Ah! How sweet it is to love

Saint-Saëns :
Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix
The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals

Shostakovich :
Romance from The Gadfly
Schubert :
Ave Maria
Schumann :
Thou Ring on My Finger
Träumerei

Verdi :
Andantino from La Forza del Destino
Brindisi – Libiamo from La traviata

Vivaldi :
The Four Seasons – Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter