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Swingle Singers
Bach Hits Back
Genres: Special Interest, Classical

Track Listings (21) - Disc #1
1. Ein' Feste Burg
2. Organ Fugue
3. The Well-Tempered Clavier: Prelude XVIII
4. Sleepers Awake: Chorale Prelude
5. Wachet Auf: Chorale
6. Liebster Jesu, Wir Sind Hier
7. In Dulci Jubilo - Chorale Prelude
8. In Dulci Jubilo - Chorale
9. Sonata No. 2 For Unaccompanied Violin: Andante
10. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3: First Movement
11. Sheep May Safety Graze
12. Badinerie
13. The Well-Tempered Clavier: Fugue VIII
14. Three-part Invention
15. Et Resurrexit
16. Bist Du Bei Mir
17. Blute Nur, Du Liebes Herz
18. Organ Fugue
19. Air On A G String
20. Little Organ Fugue
21. Es Ist Genug

CD Details

All Artists: Swingle Singers
Title: Bach Hits Back
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Virgin Records Us
Release Date: 1/17/1995
Genres: Special Interest, Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Suites, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750), Instruments, Keyboard, Strings, Sacred & Religious
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 724354504921

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CD Reviews

An original and charming interpretation of Bach

07/31/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Swingle Singers have been around for a while, but I think they are just hitting their stride with this release. They do an incredible job of interpreting Bach, and not just the pieces written for voice! This is a fresh, charming and, sometimes amusing, interpretation of Bach's work. I particularly enjoyed "Air on a G string" and "Little Organ Fugue." The Bach cd impressed me so much, I've just ordered their Mozart offering..."Acapella Amadeus.""

Background or Foreground?

Elderbear | Loma Linda, Aztlan | 07/31/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Experience pleasant and enjoyable a capella realizations of Bach preludes, fugues, chorale and instrumental numbers. The Swingle Singers render some as vocal transcriptions of Bach's original, instrumental music, and others as jazz arrangements. Their hymn-like rendition of Ein Feiste Burg (A Mighty Fortress) bounces into a light and jazzy scatting of "Organ Fugue from Fantasia and Fugue." They perform 21 excerpts from Bach, none of which are too obtrusive for background music, yet all are excellent enough to listen to while doing nothing but enjoying the music.Bach was a technical genius, and the Swingle Singers have the talent and creativity to bring his music alive, translating it into new idioms successfully. Worth every chord of five stars.(If you'd like to discuss this review or CD, please click on the "about me" link above and drop me some email. Thanks!)"

Swingle again

capezio | Vitoria, ES Brazil | 06/02/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"In the late 60's the Swingle Singers used to be a new advent. An inovative exercise on J.S.Bach. Now, revisited, there's a great pleasure to rear again the famous Badinerie and many other inspiring tunes like the Air on G string and the rarelly recorded Luther "Ein Feste Burg". The singers are much "Swingle" and the late harmonies comes alive. The arrangements are quite fresh although a bit diferent on the bass. At the end we find oursefs "swinging and marking". A recording to be listened on and on."