Swingle Singers Going Baroque

Album by The Swingle Singers

Going Baroque is an album by the Swingle Singers, released in 1964. The album blends vocal jazz arrangements with Baroque classical material and uses tight a cappella harmonies and rhythmic swing to adapt older works into a vocal jazz format, and it follows the group's early experiments in combining classical material with jazz vocal technique.

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  1. 1.
    Badinerie (From the Suite in B Minor)
    1:18
  2. 2.
    Air (From the Harpsichord Suite in E Minor)
    2:21
  3. 3.
    Gigue (From the Cello Suite in C Major)
    1:18
  4. 4.
    Largo (From the Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor)
    2:59
  5. 5.
    Prelude No. 19 (From the Well Tempered Clavier, 1st Book)
    1:07
  6. 6.
    Preambule (From the Partita No. 5 in G Major)
    2:22
  7. 7.
    Fugue (From the Estro Harmonico Op. 3, No. 11, Arranged for Organ by J.S. Bach)
    2:20
  8. 8.
    Allegro (From the Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 4)
    3:13
  9. 9.
    Prelude No. 7 (From the Well Tempered Clavier, 2nd Book)
    2:32
  10. 10.
    Solfeggietto
    0:54
  11. 11.
    Der Fruehling (Spring)
    1:32
  12. 12.
    Prelude No. 24 (From the Well Tempered Clavier, 2nd Book)
    1:55

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