Rococo A Go Go
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Rococo Á Go Go is the fifth album
released by the Swingle Singers. The album was nominated for a 1966 Grammy award
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All tracks from this album are also included on the 11 disk Philips boxed set, Swingle Singers
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Rhythm section:
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
released by the Swingle Singers. The album was nominated for a 1966 Grammy award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
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All tracks from this album are also included on the 11 disk Philips boxed set, Swingle Singers
Swingle Singers (Philips boxed set)
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...
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Track listing
- Tracks 1 - 5 from Concerto for flute, violin & strings in E minor ("Concerto à Sei"), TWV 5 (TelemannGeorg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually...
)- "Allegro" – 2:27
- "Adagio" – 1:25
- "Presto" – 1:08
- "Adagio" – 0:34
- "Allegro" – 2:08
- "21e ordre for harpsichord (Pièces de clavecin, IV) (CouperinFrançois CouperinFrançois Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.-Life:Couperin was born in Paris...
) – 2:51 - "Overture: La Lyra, suite for strings & continuo in E flat major, TWV 55 (Telemann) – 1:43
- "Work(s) ~ Unspecified Fugue in D minor (Muffat) – 3:03
- "Trio for flute, violin & continuo in E major" (Essercizii Musici No. 9/1) (Telemann) – 1:27
- "Concerto for oboe d'amore, strings & continuo in A major," TWV 51:A2 ~ Lar (Telemann) – 3:09
- "Le Coucou, rondeau for harpsichord in E minor" (Pièces de clavecin, Suite N (DaquinLouis-Claude DaquinLouis-Claude Daquin , was a French composer of Jewish birth writing in the Baroque and Galant styles. He was a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist.-Life:...
) – 1:42 - "Sonata for recorder & continuo in E minor," SF. 764 (Op. 2/4 or in D min) (MarcelloAlessandro MarcelloAlessandro Marcello was an Italian nobleman, poet, philosopher, mathematician and musician.-Biography:...
) – 1:54 - "Work(s) ~ Sonata in C minor: Allegro" (QuantzJohann Joachim QuantzJohann Joachim Quantz was a German flutist, flute maker and composer.-Biography:Quantz was born in Oberscheden, near Göttingen, Germany, and died in Potsdam....
) – 1:49 - "Work(s) ~ Sonata in C minor: Andante Moderato" (Quantz) – 2:59
- "Work(s) ~ Sonata in C minor: Vivace" (Quantz) – 1:57
Personnel
Vocals:- Jeanette Baucomont – soprano
- Christiane LegrandChristiane LegrandChristiane Legrand was a French singer.Legrand was born in Paris, the daughter of film composer Raymond Legrand, who wrote "Irma la Douce."She studied piano and classical music from the time she was four...
– soprano - Alice Herald – alto
- Claudine Meunier – alto
- Ward SwingleWard SwingleWard Swingle is an American vocalist and jazz musician.Swingle was born in Mobile, Alabama. He studied music, particularly jazz, from a very young age. He was playing in Mobile-area Big Bands before finishing high school. After high school, Swingle graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Cincinnati...
– tenor, arranger - Claude Germain – tenor
- Jean Cussac – bass
- José Germain – bass
Rhythm section:
- Guy Pedersen – double bassDouble bassThe double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
- Daniel Humair – drums