PLAY

String Quartet

Repertoire

PLAY’s String Ensemble repertoire consists of a variety of classical music, jazz standards, tangos and the largest selection of popular contemporary arrangements in South Africa!

 

Modern POP songs - Contemporary MUSIC

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• AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long

• Adam Sandler – I Wanna Grow Old with You

• Adele – Make You Feel My Love

• Adele - Skyfall

• American Authors – Best Day of My Life

• Andrea Bocelli & Celine Dion – The Prayer

• Bastille - Pompeii

• Beatles - All You Need is Love

• Beatles – Here Comes the Sun

• Ben King – Stand By Me

• Bette Midler – The Rose

• Birdy – Skinny Love

• Brandi Carlile – The Story

• Bruno Mars – Just the Way You Are

• Bruno Mars – Marry You

• Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You*

• Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe

• Charli – Boom Clap

• Christina Perri – A Thousand Years*

• Clean Bandit – Rather Be

• Coldplay – A Sky Full of Stars

• Coldplay – Clocks

• Coldplay – Fix You

• Coldplay – Paradise

• Coldplay – Reign of Love

• Coldplay – The Scientist

• Coldplay – Viva la Vida

• Coldplay – Yellow *

• Dave Matthews Band – Crash Into me

• David Gray – This Year’s Love

• Des’ree – Kissing You from Romeo & Juliet

• Doris Day – Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps

• Ed Sheeran - Perfect

• Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – Home

• Elbow – One Day Like This

• Elvis Castello – She*

• Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling in Love*

• Enya – Only Time

• Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight

• Etta James – At Last

• Fleetwood Mac – Songbird

• Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks

• Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me*

• Frank Sinatra – Summer Wind

• Game of Thrones -  Theme Song

• Greenday – Good Riddance

• Guns n Roses – Sweet Child of Mine

• Imagine Dragons – On Top of the World

• Imagine Dragons - Radioactive

• Ingrid Michaelson – The Way I Am

• Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World

• Jason Mraz – I Won’t Give Up

• Jason Mraz – I’m Yours*

• Jason Mraz – Lucky

• John Legend – All of Me

• Journey – Don’t Stop Believing

• Katy Perry – Firework

• Katy Perry – Unconditionally

• Lauv – I Like Me Better

• Led Zeppelin – Going to California

• Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

• Lifehouse – You and Me

• Lorde – Royals

• Lumineers – Ho Hey

• MGMT - Kids

• Muse – Starlight

• Nat King Cole - Unforgettable

• Oasis - Wonderwall

• Of Monsters & Men – Little Talks

• Passenger – Let Her Go

• Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes

• Peter Gabriel – Book of Love

• Pharrell Williams - Happy

• Pixies – Here Comes Your Man

• Plain White T’s – Hey There Delilah

• Queen – Somebody to Love

• Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Snow

• Sara Bareilles – I Choose You

• Shania Twain – From This Moment On

• Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars

• Star Wars – Cantina Band

• Star Wars – Imperial March

• Star Wars – Main Theme

• Star Wars – Throne Room

• Stevie Wonder – Isn’t She Lovely*

• Stevie Wonder – Signed Sealed Delivered

• Tangled the Movie – I See the Light

• The Killers – Mr. Brightside

• The Mission - Gabriel's Oboe

• Unforgettable – Nat King Cole

• U2 – All I want is you

• U2 – Beautiful day

• U2  - With or Without You

• Vance Joy – Riptide

• Yiruma – River Flows in You

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These songs are available for the full string quartet option only

Song that can be played by the string trio are marked with a *

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Classical and wedding music

 

• Bach - Air on a G-String

• Bach - Arioso

• Bach - Four Pieces from Suite in D Major

• Bach - Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring

• Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze

• Beethoven - Ode to Joy

• Bizet – Duet from Pearl Fishers

• Boccherini - Minuet

• Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary

• Debussy – Clair de Lune

• Dvorak – Humoresque

• Elgar – Salut d’Amour

• Elgar – Nimrod from Enigma Variations

• Gounod – Ave Maria

• Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

• Handel - Aria from Xerxes

• Handel - Hornpipe from Water Music Suite

• Haydn – London Trio

• Massenet – Meditation from Thais

• Mozart – Eine Kleine Nachtmuzik

• Mendelssohn - Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

• Offenbach – Barcarolle

• Pachelbel - Canon in D

• Purcell - Trumpet Tune

• Schubert - Ave Maria

• Vivaldi - Four Seasons Concerto

• Wagner - Bridal Chorus

Movie soundtracks

 

 

• Billy Joel - Piano Man

• Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany’s

• New York New York

• Scent of a Woman - Tango Pour Una Cabeza

• Theme from Love Story

• Tulips from Amsterdam

• What A wonderful World

 

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Jazz standards

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• Anything Goes

• Blue Moon

• Could It Be You

• It Had To Be You

• It’s Only A Paper Moon

• Lullaby of Birdland

• Making Whoopee

• My Funny Valentine

• Spanish Eyes

• Take Five

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Light music and Tangos

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• Country Club Rag

• Jamaican Rumba

• Maple Leaf Rag

• McLean – Czardas

• McLean - Fandango

• McLean – Six Tangos

• McLean – Serenade

• Piazzolla - Tangos

• Scott Joplin Rags

• Mexican Traditional - La Bamba

• Spanish Traditional – La Palorm

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