Status Cymbal

» Profile

The Status Cymbal approach to popular music is both refreshing and adventurous. From the beginning, it commissioned works from some of Britain's finest string arrangers, so that its unrivalled library now extends from Bach to Rock via Strauß, Gershwin, Bernstein, Duke Ellington, the Beatles, Abba, the Carpenters, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead and Queen, to name but a few. The haunting and the beautiful, the lively, the tearful, the passionate and the humorous, all can be heard in a Status Cymbal recital. Variety, originality and entertainment are its watchwords.

Status Cymbal performances are enjoyed not only in Britain, but throughout the world, as well as on the high seas. During a two-month contract on Holland-America's MS Noordam, passengers voted the quartet near perfect marks in a customer satisfaction survey. Cunard invited them to perform three concerts on the prestigious MS Caronia (sister ship to the QE2) during its trans-Atlantic cruise to the Caribbean and P & O chose Status Cymbal as opening entertainment at the launch, in the presence of the Princess Royal, of their flagship Adonia, as well as entertaining guests at a charity ball aboard the Aurora and a subsequent Caribbean cruise aboard the Arcadia.

So whether it is a recital, corporate event, wedding, anniversary or any other type of prestige occasion, playing the works of the classical masters or music from our unique repertoire of modern arrangements, Status Cymbal will be delighted to entertain you.

» Song List

• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• All The Things You Are
• Amazing Grace
• Always True To You After My Fashion
• Anything Goes
• As Time Goes By
• Autumn Leaves
• Beer Barrel Polka
• Bethena Walz (joplin)
• Beyond The Sea (la Mer)
• Black & White Rag
• The Blue-tail Fly
• Blues In The Night
• Bluesette
• 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
• Country Gardens
• Dark Eyes
• Dead Man Blues
• Desafinado
• Dream A Litle Dream Of Me
• Lite Syncopations (joplin)
• Every Time We Say Goodbye
• Floral Dance
• The Girl From Ipanema
• Guantanamera
• Home In Pasadena
• Horse Guards: Whitehall
• Hungarian Rag
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
• I Love Paris
• If You Knew Suzie
• In A Sentimental Mood
• It Had To Be You
• It Must Be Love
• I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise
• Jazz Me Blues
• Jealousy
• Kickin' The Dog
• King Porter Stomp
• La Bamba
• La Paloma
• La Vie En Rose
• Leaning On A Lamppost
• Let's Do It
• Little Brown Jug
• Love Is Here To Stay
• Love Is The Sweetest Thing
• Makin' Whoopee
• The Man I Love
• Misty
• Moonlight And Roses
• Moonlight In Vermont
• Music To Watch Girls By
• My Funny Valentine
• Nice Work If You Can Get It
• A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
• No Business Like Show Business
• No Strings
• Noche De Estrellas
• Nuages
• Oh! Dem Golden Slippers
• The Old Music Master
• Ol Guapa!
• Orange Blossom Special
• Over The Rainbow
• Palladio
• Paragon Rag (joplin)
• Pennies From Heaven
• Pick Yourself Up
• Pleasant Moments (joplin)
• Raggin' The Scale
• Ragtime Dance (joplin)
• Roseleaf Rag (joplin
• Russian Rag
• Satin Doll
• September Song
• Singin' In The Rain
• Slap That Bass
• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
• The Snowman
• Solace (joplin)
• Somebody Loves Me
• Someone To Watch Over Me
• Sometimes When We Touch
• Spanish Eyes
• St Louis Blues
• Summertime
• Sunshine
• Swanee
• Swing Low Sweet Chariot
• Take 5
• Take The 'a' Train
• Tango 'por Una Cabeza'
• Tiger Rag
• Top Hat
• Turkey In The Straw
• Two Guitars
• Up A Lazy River
• The Way You Look Tonight
• What A Difference A Day Makes
• What'll I Do
• Without You
• Wonderful World
• Yiddischer Momma
• 1/5 Of Beethoven (from Saturday Night Fever)
• All I Do The Whole Night Through
• All Time High
• All You Need Is Love
• Angels
• Another Brick In The Wall
• Back In The Ussr
• Beautiful
• Beautiful Day
• Bitter Sweet Symphony
• The Blue-tail Fly
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Both Sides Now
• Bridge Over Troubled Water
• Candle In The Wind
• Chanson D'amour
• Chariots Of Fire
• Clocks
• Close To You
• Common People
• A Day In The Life
• Eight Days A Week
• Eleanor Rigby
• Enjoy The Silence
• Eternal Flame
• Every Breath You Take
• (everything I Do) I Do It For You
• Feelings
• Fields Of Gold
• The Fool On The Hill
• God Only Knows
• Good Riddance (the Time Of My Life)
• Good Vibrations
• Goodbye To Love
• Got To Get You Into My Life
• Handbags & Gladrags
• Hello
• Hello Goodbye
• Here There And Everywhere
• I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do
• I Feel Fine
• I Get The Sweetest Feeling
• I Heard It Through The Grapevine
• If I Fell
• I'm A Believer
• I'm Into Something Good
• Imagine
• (is This The Way To) Amarillo
• It Had To Be You
• It Must Be Love
• It's Rock'n'roll (medley)
• Jumpin' Jack Flash
• Killing Me Softly With His Song
• Lady Madonna
• Let's Spend The Night Together
• Love Is All Around
• Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
• Made Of Stone
• Mandy
• May It Be
• Michelle
• A Million Love Songs
• Money Money Money
• Move On Up
• Nights In White Satin
• No Surprises
• Norwegian Wood
• Out Of Time
• Paperback Writer
• Penny Lane
• Pictures Of Lily
• Pinball Wizard
• Puppet On A String
• Ride A White Swan
• Scarborough Fair
• Shiny Happy People
• She's A Diamond
• She's Out Of My Life
• Smells Like Teen Spirit
• Something
• Somewhere Only We Know
• Stairway To Heaven
• Stand By Me
• Strawberry Fields Forever
• Summer Holiday
• Superstar
• Take A Chance On Me
• Ten Storey Love Song
• Those Were The Days
• The Universal
• Unfinished Sympathy
• Waterloo
• We Are The Champions
• When I'm 64
• White Wedding
• A Whiter Shade Of Pale
• Wonderwall
• Yesterday
• Yesterday Once More
• Ymca
• You're Still The One
• 1/5 Of Beethoven (from Saturday Night Fever)
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• All Creatures Great And Small (tv Theme)
• America! (from West Side Story)
• Annie! (overture)
• The Avengers
• Baby Elephant Walk (from Hatari)
• Cavatina (from The Deer Hunter)
• Chariots Of Fire
• Cheek To Cheek
• Chi Mai (tv The Life And Times Of Lloyd George)
• Dad's Army (tv Theme)
• Dam Busters' March
• Diamonds Are Forever
• Don't Cry For Me Argentina (from Evita)
• Dragnet (tv Theme)
• Fiddler On The Roof (medley)
• Finian's Rainbow (medley)
• For Your Eyes Only
• The Godfather
• Goldfinger
• The Great Escape (film Theme)
• Green Leaves Of Summer (from The Alamo)
• Harry Lime Theme (from The Third Man)
• High Noon
• Hill Street Blues (tv Theme)
• I'm Walking In The Air (from The Snowman)
• Into The West (from The Lord Of The Rings)
• James Bond Theme
• Lara's Theme (from Dr Zhivago)
• Little Brown Jug (from The Glen Miller Story)
• Live And Let Die
• The Magnificent Seven
• Man Of La Mancha (medley)
• Maria (from West Side Story)
• May It Be (from The Lord Of The Rings)
• Misty (from Play Misty For Me)
• My Fair Lady (medley)
• Nobody Does It Better (from The Spy Who Loved Me)
• On An All Time High (from Octopussy)
• Over The Rainbow (from The Wizard Of Oz)
• Pinball Wizard (from Tommy)
• Pink Panther Theme
• Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (from Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid)
• Scarborough Fair (from The Graduate)
• Schindler's List
• Singin' In The Rain
• Star Wars
• Summer Holiday
• Summer Nights (from Grease)
• Tango 'por Una Cabeza' (from Scent Of A Woman)
• Thunderbirds
• We Have All The Time In The World (from On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
• Yellow Submarine
• You Only Live Twice
• 1/5 Of Beethoven (saturday Night Fever)
• 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)
• Big Spender
• Cheek To Cheek
• Don't Cry For Me Argentina
• Every Time We Say Goodbye
• Fiddler On The Roof (medley)
• Finian's Rainbow (medley)
• I Dreamed A Dream (les Miserables)
• I Know Him So Well
• I Love Paris
• I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise
• I'm Walking In The Air (the Snowman)
• Let's Do It
• Love Is Here To Stay
• The Man I Love
• Man Of La Mancha (medley)
• Maria (west Side Story)
• Memory (cats)
• Money Money Money
• My Fair Lady (medley)
• My Funny Valentine
• Nice Work If You Can Get It
• No Business Like Show Business
• No Strings
• Over The Rainbow
• Pick Yourself Up
• 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
• Take A Chance On Me (mama Mia!)
• Top Hat
• Waterloo (mama Mia!)
• The Way You Look Tonight
• What'll I Do
• Without You
• And Many More!

» Previous Clients

• Mercedes-benz Uk
• Roche Uk
• Debenhams
• Marks & Spencer
• The Law Society
• Society Of The Inner Temple
• Newmarket And Other Racecourses
• City Livery Companies
• Barclays Bank
• And Many More!

» Testimonials

We, and all our guests, just loved the music. It was the perfect accompaniment to our wedding and I would not hesitate to recommend you further.
- Tom & Lynn Pickerell May 2008

Thank you so much for coming to play to us at Goldsmiths' Hall last night. Your programme was perfect. You found some very ingenious solutions to the 'Gold' challenge and the inclusion of some Gershwin and Victor Sylvester nostalgia was extremely well suited to our older audience. We are most grateful to you all and thank you again for being so accommodating over our requirements.
- Concert for the Queen Elizabeth Foundation - May 2007

These four fine musicians surprised some, I am sure, with their choice of material, steering clear of the usual classical repertoire and picking movie themes, standards and even a touch of Nirvana. Needless to say, it worked perfectly, and this is an act that is ideal for the corporate market, but with their mix of material from Vivaldi to the Verve, there is no place where they could not work.
- The Stage & Television Today - January 2006

Everything went really well and the string quartet did a super job for us - they were really flexible (some of the timings changed on the day but they handled it really well) and I had loads of positive feedback from people about them. So thanks for making our VIP opening event such a huge success.
- Roche UK - November 2005

Wow! What can I say apart from thank you so much for playing at our wedding? You were absolutely amazing and we could not have chosen anyone better to play for us. It truly was breathtaking when I heard the first bars of Pachelbel as I entered the church. That was my favourite part of the day and it is all thanks to you ... all our family and friends said how wonderful you all were and that the choices of music played were brilliant. One thing I do remember is my brother and I singing and dancing on the terrace while you were playing I Heard It on the Grapevine. . you made our day even more of a fairytale for us and we cannot thank you enough -you really were amazing.
- Carly & Oliver Evans - August 2004

The Horsham Music Circle promised us a string quartet with a difference on Saturday evening and that is what we got! In the first half of the concert the Schubert Quartettsatz held a true Schubertian mood throughout (not easy with so much fast playing involved). Borodin's popular Quartet No 2 delighted the audience. After the interval we were given 'The 20th Century in Popular Song'...foot-tapping renditions...brought to an end with Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody...first-class musicians gave us an evening of great pleasure and diversity.
- West Sussex County Times - May 2003

» Set Formats

Status Cymbal Offer:

3 x 45 Minute Sets

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