Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers

Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers is a compilation album of previously released tracks from 3 Philips Swingle Singers recordings: Place Vendôme (a.k.a. Encounter) (7 tracks / complete), Getting Romantic (a.k.a. Les Romantiques) (6 tracks) and Spanish Masters (a.k.a. Sounds of Spain) (3 tracks).

Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers
Compilation album by
The Swingle Singers
Released1987
Recorded1965-1967
GenreVocal jazz
Length60:24
LabelMercury
Alternative cover / title
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Track listing
  1. "Air for G String" (Bach) [2][3][4] – 5:37
  2. "Zortzico" (Albéniz) [3][5] – 2:05
  3. "Scherzo" ("Sonata op. 24 for violin and piano") (Beethoven) [3][5] – 1:11
  4. "Three Windows" (John Lewis) [4] – 7:09
  5. "Aranjuez" (after the "Adagio", 2nd movement of the Concierto de Aranjuez) (Vidre) [6] – 4:18
  6. "When I am Laid in Earth" ("Dido's Lament") (Purcell) [2][4] – 5:03
  7. "Tango in D Major" (No. 2 from "España" op. 165) [6] – 2:12
  8. "Etude Op. 25 No. 2" (Chopin) [3][5] – 1:27
  9. "Vendome" (Lewis) [4] – 3:31
  10. "Le Marche de Limoges" ("Pictures at an Exhibition") (Mussorgsky) [3][5] – 1:23
  11. "Little David's Fugue" ("Sascha") (Lewis) [4] – 4:15
  12. "Andante" (Quartet op. 44 no. 1) (Mendelssohn) [3][5] – 3:28
  13. "Ricercare à 6" (from "The Musical Offering") (Bach) [2][4] – 6:29
  14. "Romance Espagnole" ("Jeux Interdits" / "Spanish Romance") (anonymous) [3][6] – 2:34
  15. "Alexander's Fugue" (Lewis) [4] – 4:50
  16. "Little Prelude and Fugue" ("Album for the Young") (Schumann) [3][5] – 2:09

Personnel

The Swingle Singers:

  • Christiane Legrand – soprano
  • Jeanette Baucomont – soprano
  • Claudine Meunier – alto
  • Alice Herald – alto
  • Ward Swingle – tenor, arranger
  • Claude Germain – tenor
  • Jean Cussac – bass
  • José Germain – bass

Rhythm section:[5][6]

The Modern Jazz Quartet:[4]

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Arranged by John Lewis
  3. Arranged by Ward Swingle
  4. tracks from Place Vendôme
  5. tracks from Getting Romantic
  6. tracks from Spanish Masters
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