Bach Hits Back

Swingle Singers (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 17, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B000002SQC
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,290 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #95 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Passions

Track Listings

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

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An original and charming interpretation of Bach, July 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Bach Hits Back (Audio CD)

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."

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Background or Foreground?, July 30, 2001

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Elderbear (Loma Linda, Aztlan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bach Hits Back (Audio CD)

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.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Swingle again!, June 2, 2001

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capezio "capezio" (Vitoria, ES Brazil) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bach Hits Back (Audio CD)

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 hear 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. The Bach fuges are masterly sung and at the end we find ourselfs "swinging and marking". A recording to be listened on and on, although we won't find on the booklet any word of the tracks sung on the CD.