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Bitter Ending

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Released
  
1972

Label
  
Epic 80544

Release date
  
1972

Length
  
~30 minutes

Artist
  
The Swingle Singers

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The Swingle Singers albums
  
Words & Music, Operazione San Pietro, Spanish Masters, Swingle Singers, Love Songs for Madrigals

Bitter Ending, is a recording of a work for eight voices composed by Andre Hodeir as commissioned by Ward Swingle. The work is performed by the Swingle Singers with a jazz quintet. This was the last work by Hodeir and is inspired by James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

Personnel

  • Roger Guérin – trumpet
  • Pierre Gossez – saxophone
  • Jean-Louis Chautemps – saxophone
  • Jacques (Jacky) Cavallero – double bass
  • Marcel Sabiani – drums

    • The Swingle Singers:

  • Christiane Legrand – soprano
  • Nicole Darde – soprano
  • Hélène Devos – alto
  • Claudine Meunier – alto
  • Ward Swingle – tenor, arranger
  • Joseph Noves – tenor
  • Jean Cussac – bass
  • José Germain – bass

    • References

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