Tempo Primo Quartet Repertoire List

ROMANTIC CLASSICS AND WEDDING SELECTIONS – slower tempos

  • Amazing grace
  • Bach-Air on the G String
  • Bach-Arioso from Cantata No. 156
  • Bach/Gounod-Ave Maria
  • Bach/Stölzel-Bist du bei mir
  • Bach-Chorale and Chorale Prelude
  • Bach-Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
  • Bach-Largo from the Concerto for Two Violins
  • Bach-Liebster Jesu Chorale
  • Bach-Minuet in G
  • Bach-Sheep May Safely Graze
  • Bach-Wachet Auf Chorale
  • Barber-Adagio for Strings
  • Beethoven-Adagio from the “Pathetique” Sonata
  • Bernstein-One Hand One Heart
  • Bizet-Flower Song & Entr’Acte to Act 3 from Carmen
  • Brahms-Poco Allegretto from Symphony No. 3
  • Bruch-Adagio from Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Chopin-Nocturnes Op. 9, No. 2; Op. 15, Nos. 1 & 3
  • Chopin-Prelude in E minor Op. 28, No. 4
  • Debussy-Clair de Lune
  • Debussy-Girl With the Flaxen Hair
  • Delibes-Flower Duet from Lakme
  • Dvorak-Largo from the New World Symphony
  • Elgar-Pomp and Circumstance
  • Faure-Pavane
  • Franck-Panis Angelicus
  • Gluck-Minuet
  • Greensleeves
  • Handel-Adagio from Sonata No. 4 in D Major
  • Humperdinck-Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel
  • Londonderry Air-Irish Folk Song
  • MacDowell-To a Wild Rose
  • Malotte-The Lord’s Prayer (with or without soloist)
  • Massenet-Meditation from Thais
  • Mendelssohn-Intermezzo and Nocturne from Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Mozart-Ave Verum
  • Mozart-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
  • Mozart-Divertimenti
  • Pachelbel-Canon
  • Puccini-Che Gelida Manina from La Boheme
  • Rachmaninov-Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: 18th Variation
  • Rachmaninov-Vocalise
  • Ravel-Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • Ravel-Pavane pour une infante defunte
  • Satie-Three Gymnopodies
  • Sabbath Prayer and Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof
  • Schubert-Ave Maria
  • Shostakovich-Romance
  • Wedding Song (There is Love)

CLASSICAL – livelier tempos

  • Bach-Badinerie from Ochestral Suite No. 2
  • Bach-Brandenburg Concertos 1-6
  • Bach-Concerto for Two Violins
  • Bach-Orchestral Suite No. 3
  • Bach-Sinfonia from Cantata No. 140
  • Bach-Violin Concerto in E Major
  • Beethoven-Ode to Joy
  • Beethoven-Fur Elise
  • Brahms-Hungarian Dances 1, 4, 5, and 8
  • Chopin-Polonaise “Militaire” Op. 40, No. 1
  • Corelli-Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 4 and 8
  • Debussy-Golliwog’s Cake-Walk
  • Debussy-Le Petit Negre
  • Frescobaldi- Toccata
  • Grieg-Gavotte from Holberg Suite Op. 40
  • Gluck-Gavotte
  • Handel-Allegro from Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 1
  • Handel-Allegro from Sonata No. 4 in D Major
  • Handel-Entrance of the Queen of Sheba (from Solomon)
  • Handel-Overture to the Messiah
  • Handel-Two Dances from Terpsichore
  • Handel-Selections from the Royal Fireworks
  • Handel-Selections from the Water Music
  • Haydn-String Quartets
  • Mendelssohn-Canzonetta
  • Mozart-Alleluia from Exsultate Jubilate
  • Mozart-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
  • Mozart-Divertimenti
  • Mozart-String Quartets
  • Ponchon-Spirit of the 18th Century
  • Offenbachiana
  • Raff-The Mill
  • Rossini-Overture to Semirade
  • Salieri-Symphony in D Major
  • Schubert-All’ Ungherese
  • Schubert-March Militaire
  • Schumann-Traumerei
  • Simple Gifts
  • Vivaldi-Concerto for Two Violins in A minor
  • Vivaldi-Concerto Grosso in D minor
  • Vivaldi-Concerto Grosso Op. 3, No. 11
  • Young-Prelude in Classic Style

CLASSICAL WEDDING MARCHES

  • Handel-Hornpipe from the Water Music
  • Mendelssohn-Wedding March
  • Mouret-Rondeau from the Premiere Suite
  • Purcell-Trumpet Tune
  • Purcell-Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)
  • Wagner-Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin
  • Wedding Processional from The Sound of Music

VIVALDI: FOUR SEASONS

  • Winter
  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Fall

EARLY MUSIC FROM THE RENAISSANCE

  • William Byrd-Two Old Dances
  • Rameau-Minuet from the Sixth Suite
  • Tenaglia-Aria

SCOTT JOPLIN RAGS

  • Country Club
  • Paragon Rag
  • Pineapple Rag
  • Heliotrope Bouquet
  • Maple Leaf Rag
  • Euphonic Sounds
  • New Rag

WALTZES

  • Anderson-Belle of the Ball
  • Chopin-Three Waltzes (Op. 64, Nos. 1 & 2, Op. 18)
  • Copland-Saturday Night Waltz from “Rodeo”
  • Dvorak-Waltz from Symphony No. 8
  • Ivanovici-Danube Waves (“Anniversary Waltz”)
  • Kreisler- Caprice Viennois
  • Kreisler-Liebesfreud
  • Kreisler-Midnight Bells Waltz
  • Kreisler- Schon Rosmarin
  • Lehar-Merry Widow Waltz Suite
  • Puccini-Musetta’s Waltz from La Boheme
  • Richard Rodgers-The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, Falling in Love with Love, My Favorite Things, Carousel Waltz
  • Stoltz-Two Hearts In Three-Quarter Time
  • Strauss-Blue Danube Waltzes
  • Strauss-Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes
  • Strauss-Die Fledermaus Waltzes
  • Strauss-Tales from the Vienna Woods
  • Strauss-Wiener Blut Waltzes
  • Tchaikovsky-Sleeping Beauty Waltz
  • Tennessee Waltz

FRITZ KREISLER FAVORITES

  • Allegretto (after Boccherini)
  • Caprice Viennois
  • Liebesfreud
  • Liebeslied
  • Midnight Bells Waltz
  • The Old Refrain
  • Schon Rosmarin
  • Tambourin Chinois

LIVELY SPANISH FAVORITES AND GYPSY AIRS

  • Alma Llanera
  • Bartok-Rumanian Folk Dances
  • Bizet-Entr’Acte to Act IV from Carmen
  • Bizet-Habanera from Carmen
  • Brahms-Hungarian Dances Nos. 1-7, 10, 11, 21
  • Dama Antanona
  • El Choclo Tango (Villoldo)
  • Ginastera-Danzas Argentinas No. 2
  • Golden Earrings (traditional)
  • Gypsy Life (Herbert)
  • Jalousie
  • Keler-Son of the Puszta
  • La Cumparsita (Tango)
  • La Sorella (Borel-Clerc)
  • Manha de Carnaval from Black Orpheus
  • Noites Carioca
  • Por una Cabeza Tango
  • Sarasate-Romanza Andaluza
  • Strauss-Czardas from Die Fledermaus
  • Tico-Tico (Abreu)
  • Valse and Merengue
  • Villa-Lobos-Bachianas Brazileiras No. 5

BROADWAY FAVORITES

  • A Little Night Music-Send In the Clowns
  • Annie Medley-Tomorrow, You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile, It’s a Hardknock Life, Maybe, Together Again, Easy Street
  • Cats-Memory (Lloyd-Webber)
  • Fiddler on the Roof-Sunrise, Sunset
  • Grease-Hopelessly Devoted to You
  • The King and I Medley-March of the Siamese Children, We Kiss in the Shadow, I Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting To Know You, Something Wonderful, Hello Young Lovers, Shall We Dance
  • Les Miserables-On My Own from
  • My Fair Lady-I Could Have Danced All Night
  • Phantom of the Opera-All I Ask of You, Music of the Night
  • Westside Story Suite-America, I Feel Pretty, One Hand One Heart, Maria, Somewhere, Tonight
  • Sound of Music Medley-Sound of Music, Do Re Mi, My Favorite Things, The Lonely Goatherd, Edelweiss, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, Maria (wedding processional), Climb Every Mountain

CONTEMPORARY FAVORITES AND POP TUNES

  • A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman
  • A Thousand Years (Christina Perri)
  • A Whole New World from Aladdin
  • All I Ask of You (Lloyd-Webber)
  • All My Love (Led Zeppelin)
  • All of Me (John Legend)
  • Annie’s Song (John Denver)
  • Another One Bites the Dust (Freddie Murcury/Queen)
  • Applause (Lady Gaga)
  • As Time Goes By
  • At Last (Etta James)
  • Begin the Beguine (Porter)
  • Bless the Broken Road (Rascal Flatts)
  • Bohemian Rhapsody (Freddie Murcury/Queen)
  • Can You Feel the Love Tonight (Elton John)
  • Can’t Help Falling in Love (Elvis)
  • Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You (The Four Seasons)
  • Caravan
  • Chicago (Fisher)
  • Clocks (Coldplay)
  • Come Fly With Me (Sinatra)
  • Come In From the Rain (Manchester)
  • Con Te Partiro (Time To Say Goodbye)
  • Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen)
  • Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
  • Dreams (The Cranberries)
  • Embraceable You (Gershwin)
  • Evergreen
  • Falling Slowly (Hansard/Irglova)
  • Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins
  • Feelings (Albert)
  • For Once In My Life (Miller/Murden)
  • Forgotten Dreams (Anderson)
  • God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
  • Goodbye to Love (Carpenter)
  • Happy Birthday Variations
  • Haven’t Met You Yet (Michael Buble)
  • Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo
  • His Strength Is Perfect (Steven Curtis Chapman)
  • Hopelessly Devoted to You from Grease
  • Hymne (Vangelis)
  • My Funny Valentine (Rogers)
  • I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady
  • I Got Rhythm
  • I Love Paris (Porter)
  • I Will Wait (Mumford and Sons)
  • I’ll See You In My Dreams
  • I’m In the Mood for Love
  • If You Could Read My Mind (Lightfoot)
  • In the Mood (Garland)
  • Isn’t She Lovely (Stevie Wonder)
  • Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair (Foster)
  • Kiss the Girl from The Little Mermaid
  • La Bamba
  • Lara’s Theme from Dr. Zhivago
  • Laura
  • Leaving on a Jet Plane (Denver)
  • Londonderry Air (Traditional Irish Tune)
  • Loony Tunes Fugue
  • Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso
  • Love Theme from The Godfather
  • Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
  • Lover (Taylor Swift)
  • Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan/Adele)
  • Memory from Cats (Lloyd-Webber)
  • Misty (Garner)
  • More
  • Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera
  • My Heart Will Go On from Titanic
  • New York, New York
  • On My Own from Les Miserables
  • Prelude No. 2 (Gershwin)
  • Purple Haze (Hendrix)
  • Red Sails in the Sunset (Williams)
  • Romeo and Juliet-Love Theme (Rota)
  • Secrets (One Republic)
  • Send In the Clowns from A Little Night Music (Sondheim)
  • Shut Up and Dance (Walk the Moon)
  • Skyfall (Adele)
  • Someone To Watch Over Me (Gershwin)
  • Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Arlen)
  • Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Israel Kamakawiwo’ole)
  • Stand By Me
  • Stardust
  • Stay With Me (Sam Smith)
  • Stormy Weather (Arlen)
  • Suddenly (Ocean)
  • Summertime from Porgy & Bess (Gershwin)
  • Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof (Bock)
  • Sweet Child O’Mine (Guns N’ Roses)
  • Take Five (Paul Desmond)
  • Tell Me Why
  • The Dreame from Sense and Sensibility
  • The Ludlows from Legends of the Fall
  • The Prayer from Quest for Camelot
  • Theme from Ice Castles-Looking Through the Eyes of Love
  • Theme from Summer of ’42
  • Tomorrow from Annie
  • Truly (Richie)
  • Try To Remember
  • Unchained Melody
  • Valley of the Shadow from Little Women
  • What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
  • What’s New? (Haggart)
  • Wildest Dreams (Taylor Swift)
  • You Light Up My Life
  • You’re the Inspiration (Foster)
  • Your Song (Elton John)

FIDDLE TUNES

  • Ashoken Farewell
  • Copland-Saturday Night Waltz & Hoedown from Rodeo
  • Cotton-eyed Joe
  • Crawdad
  • The Orange Blossom Special

CIVIL WAR MUSIC

  • Annie Laurie
  • Dear Evelina, Sweet Evelina
  • Dixie
  • Soldiers Farewell
  • Somebody’s Darling
  • The Last Rose of Summer
  • When This Cruel War Is Over

BEATLES TUNES

  • A Hard Day’s Night
  • All You Need Is Love
  • Back in the U.S.S.R.
  • Day Tripper
  • Eleanor Rigby
  • Here Comes the Sun
  • Here, There and Everywhere
  • Hey Jude
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand
  • Lady Madonna
  • Obladi Oblada
  • Roll Over Beethoven
  • When I’m Sixty-Four
  • Yellow Submarine
  • Yesterday

JAZZ

  • Caravan (Duke Ellington)
  • Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
  • It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing

JEWISH MUSIC

  • Al Kol Ele
  • Bashana Habaa
  • Chanukah, Oh Chanukah
  • Chorshat Haekaliptus
  • Dodi Li
  • Dodi Li II
  • Dona Dona
  • El Kabir
  • En Kelohenu—Theme and Variations
  • Erev Ba
  • Erev Shel Shoshanim
  • Hana’ava Babanot
  • Hava Nagila
  • Hevenu Shalom Alechem
  • Jerusalem of Gold
  • K’Var Achare Chatsot
  • Mayim, Mayim
  • Nigun
  • Od Y’shama
  • Mazel Tov
  • Ose Shalom
  • Rabbi Elimelech Medley
  • Rock of Ages
  • Siman Tov
  • S’u Sh’orim
  • “Tradition” from Fiddler on the Roof
  • Tum Balalaika
  • Waves of the Danube “The Anniversary Waltz”
  • V’ha’er E’ne’nu
  • Y’Did Nefesh

ITALIAN FAVORITES

  • Ah! Marie
  • Carnival of Venice
  • Ciribiribin
  • Come Back to Sorrento
  • Funiculi Funicula
  • Io te Vurria Vasa
  • Italian Love Song
  • Mattinata
  • O Solo Mio
  • Santa Lucia
  • Tarantella
  • That’s Amore
  • Vieni Sul Mar

OPERA FAVORITES

  • Delibes-Flower Duet from Lakme
  • Gershwin-Summertime from Porgy & Bess
  • Massenet-Meditation from Thais
  • Mozart-Non Piu Andrai from The Marriage of Figaro
  • Mozart-Voi Che Sapete from The Marriage of Figaro
  • Offenbach-Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman
  • Puccini-Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly
  • Puccini-Nessun Dorma from Turandot
  • Puccini-O Mio Babbino Caro (O, My Beloved Father) from Gianni Shicchi
  • Puccini-Quando M’en Vo (Musetta’s Waltz Song) from La Boheme
  • Rossini-Ballet Music from William Tell
  • Rossini-Galop (Overture to William Tell)
  • Rossini-Overture to The Barber of Seville
  • Verdi-Brindisi (Drinking Song) from La Traviata
  • Verdi-Quartet from Rigoletto

LEROY ANDERSON TUNES

  • Belle of the Ball
  • Blue Tango
  • Fiddle-Faddle
  • Forgotten Dreams
  • Horse and Buggy
  • Jazz Legato
  • Jazz Pizzicato
  • Plink, Plank, Plunk
  • Sandpaper Ballet
  • Serenata
  • Sleigh Ride
  • The Syncopated Clock
  • Trumpeter’s Lullaby
  • The Typewriter
  • The Waltzing Cat

CHRISTMAS SELECTIONS

  • Christmas Medley I-Silver Bells, Let It Snow, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, White Christmas
  • Christmas Medley II-Shepherds Leave Your Sheep, O Come Emmanuel, Here We Come A-Caroling
  • Christmas Medley III-The Coventry Carol, God Rest You Merry Gentlemen, Listen Lordlings unto Me
  • Bell Carol/Good Christian Men Rejoice (traditional)
  • Bring a Torch Jeannette, Isabella (traditional)
  • Carol of the Drum
  • Lo, How a Rose (traditional)
  • March from the Nutcracker
  • O, Holy Night (Adam)
  • Ring, Christmas Bells (Leontovich)
  • Silent Night (Gruber)
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas (traditional)
  • What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)

HYMNS

  • All Creatures of Our God and King
  • America
  • As The Deer
  • Be Thou My Vision
  • Blessed Assurance
  • Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
  • Fairest Lord Jesus
  • Here I Am, Lord
  • Holy Ground
  • Holy, Holy, Holy
  • How Great Thou Art
  • I Love You, Lord
  • In Christ Alone
  • Jesus Loves Me! This I Know
  • Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
  • Morning Has Broken
  • O Come, All Ye Faithful
  • Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow
  • Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
  • Saviour, Like a Shepherd
  • Sing a New Song
  • Surely the Presence of the Lord Is In This Place
  • Sweet, Sweet Spirit
  • The Spacious Firmament on High
  • This Is My Father’s World
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