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Released
  
2005

Length
  
~5 hours 30 minutes

Release date
  
2005

Recorded
  
1963-1972

Artist
  
The Swingle Singers

Label
  
Warner Classics

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

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The 2005 Philips boxed set, Swingle Singers is a compilation of all eleven of the Paris-based Swingle Singers' recordings made for Philips between 1963 and 1972. Ten of the eleven disks included in this boxed set had also been re-issued previously by Philips (Emarcy) in five "two-fer" compilation sets over the preceding five years.

Contents

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Contents

  • Disk 1: Jazz Sébastien Bach a.k.a. Bach's Greatest Hits (1963)
  • Disk 2: Jazz Sébastien Bach Vol. 2 a.k.a. Back to Bach (1968)
  • Disk 3: Noëls Sans Passeport a.k.a. Christmastime (1968)
  • Disk 4: Going Baroque / de Bach aux Baroques (1964)
  • Disk 5: Swinging Mozart a.k.a. Anyone for Mozart? (1965)
  • Disk 6: Les Romantiques a.k.a. Getting Romantic (1965)
  • Disk 7: Swingling Telemann a.k.a. Rococo Á Go Go (1966)
  • Disk 8: Les Quatre Saisons a.k.a. The Joy of Singing (1972)
  • Disk 9: Sounds of Spain: Concerto d'Aranjuez a.k.a. Spanish Masters (1967)
  • Disk 10: American Look (1969)
  • Disk 11: Place Vendôme a.k.a. Encounter (1966)

    • Personnel

    The Swingle Singers = 8 voices: 2 sopranos, 2 altos, 2 tenors and 2 basses (accompanied by only a drummer and double bassist)

  • Christiane Legrand – soprano
  • Jeanette Baucomont – soprano (1963–1968)
  • Nicole Darde – soprano (1969–1972)
  • Claudine Meunier – alto
  • Anne Germain – alto (1963–1965)
  • Alice Herald – alto (1965–1966)
  • Hélène Devos – alto (1967–1972)
  • Ward Swingle – tenor, arranger
  • Claude Germain – tenor (1963–1966)
  • Joseph Noves – tenor (1967–1972)
  • Jean Cussac – bass
  • Jean Claude Briodin – bass (1963–1964)
  • José Germain – bass (1965–1972)

    • Rhythm section:

  • Andre Arpino – drums (1963)
  • Gus Wallez – drums (1963–1964)
  • Daniel Humair – drums (1965–1968)
  • Bernard Lubat – drums (1968)
  • Roger Fugen – drums (1969–1972)
  • Pierre Michelot – double bass (1963)
  • Guy Pedersen – double bass (1964–1968)
  • Jacky Cavallero – double bass (1969–1972)

    • The Modern Jazz Quartet (on Encounter / Place Vendôme only):

  • John Lewis – piano
  • Milt Jackson – vibraphone
  • Percy Heath – double bass
  • Connie Kay – drums

    • Songs

    1Music for the Peter Gunn TV Series (Arr B Baxter)2:35
    2The Well-Tempered Clavier - Book 2 - BWV 870-893: Prelude and Fugue in D-Sharp Minor - BWV 877 (Excerpt - Fugue)2:07
    3Joshua fit de battle of Jericho3:02

    References

    Swingle Singers (Philips boxed set) Wikipedia
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