The Swingle Singers

In the Paris of the Sixties a number of luxury choir members gathered together to experiment what might happen when vocalising Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier. Since then “singing music as if it were played” has become the motto of this double vocal quartet, the organisation of which, always rigorously “a capella”, is continuously renewed without the musical timbre being changed and, above all, without betraying their original project which was that of exploring all repertoires, ranging from Purcell to Bach to Mozart, the Beatles, Elton John, as well as great jazz and avant-garde musicians. The Swingle Singers have performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the orchestras of the Teatro alla Scala and the Maggio Fiorentino, with dance companies such as the Momix and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, with conductors as important as Pierre Boulez and Zubin Mehta. This year they performed the Symphony by Berio with the Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, conducted by Antonio Pappano. They performed at the Siena Chigiana, at the Proms in London with the BBC Orchestra, they held recitals at the Regio in Turin and workshops in Cortina. Beauty and the Beatbox is the title of their most recent CD, released by Signum in September 2007.

sunday november 11th 2007 at 6 p.m.
The Savio Theatre

THE SWINGLE SINGERS

«BEAUTY AND THE BEATBOX»

HENRY PURCELL Dido’s Lament
GEORGE GERSHWIN Fascinatin’ rhythm
CHICK COREA Spain
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA Libertango
TOMMASO ALBINONI Adagio in G minor
MAURICE RAVEL Bolero
ERIK SATIE Gymnopedie
SCOTT STROMAN (arr.) Baroque goes Africa
KLAZZ BROTHERS Bach in Cuba
WALTER MURPHY A fifth of Beethoven

QUINCY JONES Soul Bossa Nova
TRAD. Cielito Lindo
MILES DAVIS Boplicity
LAMBERT/HENDRICKS/ROSS Twisted
MICHEL LEGRAND Windmills of your mind
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Badinerie
MAROON 5 Sunday Morning
ELTON JOHN Your Song
LENNON/McCARTNEY Eleanor Rigby
NINE INCH NAILS/TORI AMOS Hurt/Winter
LENNON/McCARTNEY Lady Madonna
TOM SCOTT Starsky and Hutch
LEWIS/HENDRICKS/LAMBERT It’s Sand, Man!