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