Status Cymbal is the String Quartet with a difference. Their approach to popular music is refreshing and adventurous.
Acknowledged as the UKs foremost ‘Crossover’ string quartet their unrivalled library extends from Bach to Rock via Strauss, Gershwin, Bernstein, Duke Ellington, The Beatles, The Carpenters, Led Zepelin and Queen to name but a few.
As successful free-lance performers, each member of the quartet brings a wealth & variety of classical experience extending from performing with world renowned symphony orchestras including the BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, CBSO & National Symphony Orchestra as well as touring, at home and abroad with opera and ballet companies like the English National Ballet, Welsh National Opera and English Touring Opera.
Status Cymbal members have supported some of the world’s most foremost Classical artists such as: Russell Watson, Katherine Jenkins, Andrea Bocelli and Michael Ball.
Pop artists concerts and tours include: Dua Lipa, Lady Ga Ga, Little Mix, Emilie Sande, Robbie Williams, Rihanna, Olly Murs, Stevie Wonder, Mary J Blige, Kylie, Paloma Faith, George Michael, Sheryl Cole, Joss Stone, Michael Buble, Diana Krall, Gregory Porter, Josh Groban, Take That, Snow Patrol, Westlife, Paul McCartney, Muse, Dizzie Rascal, David Gray, Sharleen Spiterie, Suede, Richard Ashcroft, Gabrielle, Beverly Knight, Tony Bennett, Barry Manilow, Shirley Bassey, Bette Middler, Tom Jones
Weddings
Having now performed at over 1600 weddings since the group was formed, STATUS CYMBAL has the experience and expertise to provide for so important an event. They understand that this is your special day, and that their music will add that finishing touch to create the perfect atmosphere of a truly wonderful occasion.
Their uniquely extensive repertoire stretches from Vivaldi to the Verve. An entirely classical approach is often popular, as is a preference for completely modern pop and rock music. A mixture of all styles, from Baroque through Opera, Jazz and Musicals to recent hits is also available.
Status Cymbal have performed at many of the major UK wedding venues, including prestigious hotels such as the Ritz and Claridges, as well as a considerable number of countrywide stately homes.
Corporate Entertainment
As one of the UK’s busiest and most sought-after professional quartets, STATUS CYMBAL has provided music for functions in venues including Althorp, Claridges, the London Ritz, Highclere Castle and Pinewood Studios where guest lists have included the Princess Royal, Cleo Laine, Lord Sainsbury, Pavarotti, Bob Geldof, Keith Richards, Steve Redgrave, David Gower and Boy George. The UK premiere of the Hollywood movie The Royal Tenenbaums, the re-launches of O2 and Audos, the corporate event organisers, as well as the magazine Men’s Health’s search for a new cover model all saw STATUS CYMBAL providing the music.
International
STATUS CYMBAL are regularly contracted to cruise ships and these have included: Holland-America’s MS Noordam, MS Caronia, Adonia, Aurora and Arcadia.
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Set list / Repertoire
Rock & Pop Classics
A
All I Do the Whole Night Through Charly Garcia
All Time High Rita Coolidge
All You Need Is Love The Beatles
And I Love Her The Beatles
Angels Robbie Williams
Another Brick in the Wall Pink Floyd
At Last Etta James
B
Back in the USSR The Beatles
Back to Black Amy Winehouse
Bad Romance Lady GaGa
Beautiful Christina Aguilera
Beautiful Day U2
Because Beatles
Billie Jean Michael Jackson
Bitter Sweet Symphony The Verve
The Blower’s Daughter Damien Rice
The Blue-Tail Fly Burl Ives
Bohemian Rhapsody Queen
Both Sides Now Joni Mitchell
Bridge over Troubled Water Simon & Gerfunkel
Brown-Eyed Girl Van Morrison
By Your Side Sade
C
Can You Feel the Love Tonight Walt Disney
Can’t Help Falling in Love Elvis Presley
Can’t Smile without You Barry Manilow
Candle in the Wind Elton John
Chanson d’Amour The Manhattan Transfer
Chasing Cars Snow Patrol
Clocks Coldplay
Close to You Carpenters
Common People Pulp
D
A Day in the Life The Beatles
Do You Want to Know a Secret The Beatles
Don’t Stop Believin’ Journey
Drive My Car The Beatles
E
Eight Days a Week The Beatles
Eleanor Rigby The Beatles
Endless Love Lionel Richie
Enjoy the Silence Depeche Mode
Eternal Flame The Bangles
Everlasting Love Love Affair
Every Breath You Take The Police
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You Bryan Adams
F
Feelings Morris Albert
Feeling Good Nina Simone
Fields of Gold Sting
1/5th of Beethoven Walter Murphy
The Final Countdown Europe
Fix You Coldplay
The Fool on the Hill The Beatles
From This Moment on Shania Twain
G
Girl from Mars Ash
Go West Pet Shop Boys
Golden Brown The Stranglers
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John
Good Riddance (The Time of My Life) Green Day
Good Vibrations The Beach Boys
Goodbye to Love The Carpenters
Got to Get You into My Life The Beatles
Greatest Day Take That
Grow Old with Me Tom Odell
H
Handbags & Gladrags Stereophonics
Heaven Bryan Adams
Hello Lionel Richie
Hello Again Neil Diamond
Hello Goodbye The Beatles
Here Comes the Sun The Beatles
Here Comes Your Man Pixies
Here There and Everywhere The Beatles
Heroes Alesso
Hey Ya! OutKast
How Deep Is Your Love Bee Gees
I
I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do Abba
I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing Aerosmith
I Believe in a Thing Called Love The Darkness
I Feel Fine The Beatles
I Get the Sweetest Feeling Jackie Wison
I Gotta Feeling The Black Eyed Peas
I Heard It through the Grapevine Marvin Gaye
I Will The Beatles
If I Fell The Beatles
I’m a Believer The Monkees
I’m into Something Good Herman’s Hermits
I’m Yours Jason Mraz
Imagine John Lennon
In My Life The Beatles
In the Navy Village People
(Is This the Way to) Amarillo Tony Christie
It Had to Be You Harry Connick Jr
It Must Be Love Madness
It’s Rock’n’Roll (Medley) Various
I See You, You See Me The Magpie Numbers
J
Jumpin’ Jack Flash The Rolling Stones
K
Killing Me Softly with His Song Fugees
L
Lady Madonna The Beatles
Layla Eric Clapton
Let It Be The Beatles
Let’s Spend the Night Together The Rolling Stones
Lifted Lighthouse Family
The Lion Sleeps Tonight The Tokens
Livin’ on a Prayer Bon Jovi
The Look of Love Burt Bacharach
Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet
Love Me Tender Elvis Presley
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds The Rolling Stones
M
Made of Stone Stone Roses
Mandy Barry Manilow
Master of Puppets Metallica
May It Be Enya
Michelle Beetles
A Million Love Songs Gary Barlow
Money Money Money Abba
Moondance Van Morrison
Move on Up Curtis Mayfield
My Baby Just Cares for Me Nina Simone
N
Nights in White Satin Moody Blues
Norwegian Wood Beetles
No Surprises Radiohead
Nothing Compares 2 U Sinead o Connor
Nothing Else Matters Metallica
O
One Day Like This Elbow
Only Time Enya
Out of Time Chris Farlowe
P
Photograph Ed Sheeran
Paperback Writer The Beatles
Penny Lane The Beatles
Perfect Day Lou Reed
Pictures of Lily The Who
Pinball Wizard The Who
Portrait Matt Monro
Puppet on a String Sandie Shaw
R
Raining Blood Slayer
Rather Be Clean Bandit
Ride a White Swan T Rex
Ruby Tuesday Rolling Stones
Run Snow Patrol
Roxanne Police
S
Shake it off Taylor Swift
Scarborough Fair Simon and Garfunkle
Shiny Happy People REM
She’a a Diamond Rhianna
She’s Out of My Life Michael Jackson
Something George Harrison
Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana
Somewhere Only We Know Keane
Songbird Eva Cassidy
Stairway to Heaven Led Zepplin
Stand by Me Ben E King
Starry Starry Night Don McLean
Strawberry Fields Forever The Beatles
Sweet Child o’ Mine Guns and Roses
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Annie Lennox
Summer Holiday Cliff Richard
Superstar Carpenters
T
Take a Chance on Me Abba
Ten Storey Love Song Stone Roses
There Is a Light that Never Goes Out Smiths
Those Were the Days Smiths
Ticket to Ride Beetles
Time to Say Goodbye Bocelli
Till There Was You Beetles
To Make You Feel My Love Adele
Top of the World Carpenters
U
Unfinished Sympathy Massive Attack
The Universal Blur
Up where We Belong Joe Cocker
V
Vienna Ultravox
Viva La Vida Coldplay
W
Waterloo Abba
Waterloo Sunset Kinks
We Are the Champions Queen
When I’m 64 The Beatles
White Wedding Billy Idol
A Whiter Shade of Pale Procul Harem
Wild Horses Rolling Stones
Winner Takes It All Abba
Wishin’ and Hopin’ Dusty Spingfield
Wonderful Tonight Eric Clapton
Wonderwall Oasis
Y
Yellow Yellow- Coldplay
Yesterday Yesterday- Beetles
Yesterday Once More Carpenters
YMCA Village People
You Raise Me Up Secret Garden
You to me are everything The Real Thing
You’re Beautiful James Blunt
You’re Still the One Shania Twain
You’ve Got a Friend in Me Randy Newman
You’ve Got the Love Candy Stanton
Evergreens Standards & Jazz
A
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
All I Ask of You
All the Things You Are
Always True to You after My Fashion
Anything Goes
As Time Goes By
Autumn Leaves
B
Beer Barrel Polka
Bethena Walz (Joplin)
Black & White Rag
The Blue-Tail Fly
Bluesette
C
Can’t Take My Eyes off of You
Caravan
Cascades Rag (Joplin)
Charleston
Cheek to Cheek
Chelsea Bridge
Chicken Reel
Chimes Blues
Chrysanthemum Rag (Joplin)
Cock Linnet
D
Dark Eyes
Dead Man Blues
Desafinado
E
Elite Syncopations (Joplin)
Every Time We Say Goodbye
F
Floral Dance
G
The Girl from Ipanema
Guantanamera
H
Home in Pasadena
Hungarian Rag
I
I Do Like to Be beside the Seaside
I Love Paris
If You Knew Suzie
In a Sentimental Mood
It Had to Be You
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise
J
Jazz Me Blues
Jealousy
K
Kickin’ the Dog
King Porter Stomp
L
La Paloma
La Vie en Rose
Leaning on a Lamppost
Let’s Do It
Little Brown Jug
Love Is Here to Stay
M
Makin’ Whoopee
The Man I Love
Misty
Moonlight and Roses
Moonlight in Vermont
Music to Watch Girls by/li>
My Funny Valentine
N
Nice Work If You Can Get It
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
No Business Like Show Business
No Strings
Nuages
O
Oh! Dem Golden Slippers
The Old Music Master
Orange Blossom Special
Over the Rainbow
P
Paragon Rag (Joplin)
Pennies from Heaven
Pick Yourself Up
Pleasant Moments (Joplin)
R
Raggin’ the Scale
Ragtime Dance (Joplin)
Roseleaf Rag (Joplin)
Russian Rag
S
Satin Doll
September Song
Singin’ in the Rain
Slap That Bass
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Solace (Joplin)
Somebody Loves Me
Someone to Watch over Me
Sometimes When We Touch
Spanish Eyes
St Louis Blues
Summertime
Sunshine
Swanee
T
Take 5
Take the ’A’ Train
Tango ’Por Una Cabeza’
Tiger Rag
Top Hat
Turkey in the Straw
Two Guitars
U
Up a Lazy River
W
The Way You Look Tonight
What’ll I Do
Without You
Wonderful World
Y
Yiddischer Momma
Film & TV
A
The A-Team
All Creatures Great and Small
America! (West Side Story)
The Avengers
B
Black & White Rag (Pot Black)
Bond themes – most
C
Cagney & Lacey
Cavatina (The Deer Hunter)
Chi Mai (The Life and Times of Lloyd George)
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
D
Dragnet
E
Eye Level (Van der Valk)
F
Fiddler on the Roof (Medley)
G
The Godfather
The Great Escape
Green Leaves of Summer (The Alamo)
H
Harry Lime Theme (The Third Man)
Hawaii Five-O
High Noon
Hill Street Blues
I
I’m Walking in the Air (The Snowman)
Into the West (The Lord of the Rings)
J
Jeeves & Wooster
L
Lara’s Theme (Dr Zhivago)
Last of the Mohicans
M
Man of La Mancha (Medley)
Maria (West Side Story)
Miss Marple
Mission: Impossible
My Fair Lady (Medley)
My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)
N
No Business Like Show Business (The Bandwagon)
O
Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz)
P
Peter Gunn
Pinball Wizard (Tommy)
Pink Panther Theme
Poirot
R
The Rockford Files
S
Scarborough Fair (The Graduate)
Schindler’s List
The Simpsons
Singin’ in the Rain
Star Wars
Star Wars – The Throne Room
Summer Holiday
Summer Nights (Grease)
The Sweeny
T
Test Match Special
Thunderbirds
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
Top Hat
Musicals
A
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
All I Ask of You
All the Things You Are
Always True to You after My Fashion
America! (West Side Story)
Annie! (Overture)
B
Big Spender
C
Cheek to Cheek
D
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
E
Every Time We Say Goodbye
F
Fiddler on the Roof (Medley)
Finian’s Rainbow (Medley)
I
I Dreamed a Dream
I Know Him So Well
I Love Paris
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise
I’m Walking in the Air (The Snowman)
L
Let’s Do It
Love Is Here to Stay
M
The Man I Love
Man of La Mancha (Medley)
Maria (from West Side Story)
Memory (Cats)
Money Money Money
My Fair Lady (Medley)
My Funny Valentine
N
Nice Work If You Can Get It
No Business Like Show Business
No Strings
O
Over the Rainbow
P
Pick Yourself Up
S
September Song
Singin’ in the Rain
Slap That Bass
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Somebody Loves Me
Someone to Watch over Me
Sometimes When We Touch
Summer Holiday
Summer Nights (Grease)
Summertime
Swanee
T
Take a Chance on Me
Top Hat
W
Waterloo
The Way You Look Tonight
What’ll I Do
Without You
Wedding Favourites
itle
All You Need is Love
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Canon for 3 Violins & Ground Bass
Endless Love
Everlasting Love
Flower Duet (from Lakme)
It Must Be Love
Love and Marriage
Pavane
Prince of Denmark’s March
Salut d’Amour
Sheep May Safely Graze
Summertime (from Porgy and Bess)
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
Wedding March (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Wedding March (from Lohengrin)
What a Wonderful World
We’ve Only Just Begun
When I Fall in Love
Light Classical
ANDERSON Leroy
Belle of the Ball
Blue Tango
Fiddle-Faddle
Forgotten Dreams
Jazz Pizzicato
Penny Whistle
Plink Plank Plunk
Trumpeter’s Lullaby
The Typewriter
ARENSKY Anton
Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky
BACH Johann Sebastian
Air (from Suite No 3 in D)
Brandenburg Concerto No 3
Chaconne (orig for Solo Violin)
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Sheep May Safely Graze
Toccata & Fugue in d minor
BEETHOVEN Ludwig van
Adagio Cantabile (from the Pathetique Sonata)
BIZET Georges
Carmen Prelude
BORODIN Alexander
Nocturne
BRIDGE Frank
An Irish Melody (Londonderry Air)
CHOPIN Frederick
Minute Waltz
Waltz Op 70 No 3
COATES Eric
Dambusters March
DEBUSSY Claude
Girl with the Flaxen Hair
DELIBES Leo
Flower Duet
DVORAK Antonin
Humoreske
Serenade
Slavonic Dance No 8
ELGAR Edward
Chanson de Matin
Chanson de Nuit
Nimrod
Salut d’Amour
ELLIS Vivian
Coronation Scott
FAURE Gabriel
Le Jardin de Dolly
Mi-a-ou
Pavane
FIOCCO
Allegro
FUCIK
March: Entry of the Gladiators
GERSHWIN George
Three Preludes
Summertime (from Porgy and Bess)
GRAINGER Percy
Country Gardens
Molly on the Shore
Shepherds’ Hey
STRAUB Johann II & Josef
Pizzicato Polka
SVENDSEN Johan S
Serenade
SULLIVAN Sir Arthur
Iolanthe (Medley)
Trad
Arkansas Traveller
Greensleeves
Londonderry Air
Negro Spirituals (Various)
Reel Fiddlin’ (Medley of Scottish Reels)
Skip To My Lou
Song of the Volga Boatmen
WHITE Edward
Runaway Rocking Horse
GRIEG Edward
Norwegian Dances 1-4
Waltz (from Op 12)
GOUNOD Charles
Waltz (from Faust)
FOSTER Stephen
Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair
Old Black Joe
HANDEL George Frederick
Largo
HASSE Johann Adolf
Canzona
HAYDN Josef
Serenade
KATCHACHURIAN Aram
Waltz (from Masquerade)
KREIN Jascha
Gypsy Carnival
KREISLER Fritz
Caprice Viennois
Liebesleid
LISZT Franz
Hungarian Rhapsody No 2
Hungarian Rhapsody No 14
McDOWELL Edward
To a Wild Rose
MALANDO
Tango: Noche de Estrellas
Tango: OlE Guapa!
MASSENET Jules
Meditation (from Thais)
MENDELSSOHN Felix
Canzonetta (String Quartet Op 12)
MONTI
Czardas
MOZART Wolfgang Amadeus
Adagio and Fugue in c minor
Adagio in C K356
Divertimenti (3) for Strings K136-8
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
OFFENBACH Jacques
Barcarolle (from The Tales of Hoffmann)
Can-Can (from Orpheus in the Underworld)
Waltz (from The Tales of Hoffmann)
SCHUBERT Franz
Ave Maria
Moment Musicale
SCHUMANN Robert
Scenes from Childhood
Traumerei
SHOSTAKOVITCH Dmitri
Romance (from The Gadfly)
SOUZA John Philip
El Capitan
High School Cadets
Semper Fidelis
Stars ” Stripes Forever
STRAUB Johann I
Radetzky March
STRAUB Johann II
Blue Danube Waltz
Roses from the South Waltz
Seid Umschlungen Millionen Waltz
Thunder & Lightning Polka
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
Voices of Spring Waltz
Wiener Blut
TCHAIKOVSKY Piotr Ilyich
Andante Cantabile
Danse des Mirlitons
Sleeping Beauty Waltz
VERDI Guiseppe
Brindisi (from La Traviata) etc
VIVALDI Antonio
Concerto Grosso in d minor
The Four Seasons
WOLF Hugo
Italian Serenade
Classical
ARENSKY Anton
Quartet in A minor (Op 35a)
BARBER Samuel
Adagio
BEETHOVEN Ludwig van
Quartet in C minor (Op 18 No 4)
Quartet in C major (Op 59 No 3) “Rasumovsky”
Quartet in E flat Major (op 127)
BORODIN Alexander
Quartet No 2 in D major
BRAHMS Johannes
Quartet No 1 in C minor (Op 51 No 1)
Quartet No 3 in B flat major (Op 67)
BRIDGE Frank
An Irish Melody
DVORAK Antonin
Quartet No 5 in F Minor (Op 9)
Quartet No 12 in F major (Op 96) “American”
Two Waltzes (Op 54)
GADE Niels
Quartet in D major (Op 63)
GLINKA Mikhail
Quartet in D major
HAYDN Josef
Quartet in C major (Op 33 No 3) “The Bird”
Quartet in E major (Op 54 No 3)
Quartet in D major (Op 67 No 5) “The Lark”
Quartet in D minor (Op 76 No 2) “The Fifths”
MENDELSSOHN Felix
Quartet No 2 in A minor (Op 13)
MOZART Wolfgang Amadeus
Adagio & Fugue in C minor (K 456)
Quartet in G major (K 387)
Quartet in B flat major (K 458) “The Hunt”
Quartet in C major (K 464) “The Dissonance”
PURCELL Henry
Chaconne in G minor
RAFF Joachim
Quartet in C minor (Op 192 No 1) “Suite in the Old Style”
RESPIGHI Ottorino
Quartet in D major
SCHUBERT Franz
Quartet No 13 in A minor (D 804) “Rosamunde”
Quartettsatz in C minor (D 703)
SCHUMANN Robert
Quartet No 2 in F major (Op 41 No 2)
SPOHR Ludwig
Quartet in E minor (Op 45 No 2)
SVENDSEN Johan Severin
Quartet in A minor (Op 1)
WANHAL Johann Baptiste
Quartet in E flat Major (op 127)
WOLF Hugo
Italian Serenade
Christmas
Classical
Christmas Concerto
Overture to Christmas Oratorio
Christmas (from the ballet The Seasons)
Nutcracker Suite
Troika (from Lieutenant Kije)
Winter (from The Seasons)
A Corelli arr Brian Smith
J S Bach arr Smith
P Tschaikovsky arr G Manning
P Tschaikovsky arr Carlo Martelli
S Prokofiev arr Smith
A Vivaldi
Popular
All I Want for Christmas Is You
Blue Christmas
Christmas Canon Rock
The Christmas Song
Christmas Time Is Here
Do They Know It’s Christmas
Fairytale of New York
Frosty the Snowman
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas
Jingle Bell Rock
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
Sleigh Ride
Twelve Days of Christmas
Walking in the Air
White Christmas
When Christmas Comes to Town
Winter Wonderland