Les Romantiques / Swingling Telemann [Box Set] [Box set, Import, Original recording remastered]

Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Frederic Chopin (Composer), Robert Schumann (Composer), Felix [1] Mendelssohn (Composer), Modest Mussorgsky (Composer), Isaac Albeniz (Composer), Franz [Vienna] Schubert (Composer), Georg Philipp Telemann (Composer), Francois Couperin (Composer), Georg Muffat (Composer), Louis-Claude Daquin (Composer), Benedetto Marcello (Composer), Johann Joachim Quantz (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Robert Schumann, Felix [1] Mendelssohn, Modest Mussorgsky, et al.
• Audio CD (March 6, 2002)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Box set, Import, Original recording remastered
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Philips Import
• ASIN: B00005V9SO
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 5 "Le Printemps" Op./Scherzo

2. Piano Sonata No. 12, Op. 26/Allegro

3. Etude in E Flat Major, Op. 10/6

4. Etude in F Minor, Op. 25/2

5. Valse in C Sharp Minor, Op. 64/2

6. Album à La Jeunesse, Op. 68/Petit Prelude et Fugue

7. Romance Sans Paroles "La Fileuse", Op. 67/4

8. Pictures at an Exhibition/Le Marche de Limoges

9. Quartet in D Major, Op. 44/1/Andante

10. Zortzico

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Concerto a Six, [TWV 52: E3]

2. Concerto a Six, [TWV 52: E3]

3. Concerto a Six, [TWV 52: E3]

4. Concerto a Six, [TWV 52: E3]

5. Concerto a Six, [TWV 52: E3]

6. Quatrième Livre des Pièces Pour Clavecin, 21e Ordr/La Couperin

7. Suite Pour Cordes "La Lyra"/Gigue

8. Work(s)/Unspecified Fugue in D Minor

9. Work(s)/Presto

10. Concerto in a Major for Oboe d'Amour & Strings/Larghetto

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars two short-timed discs in a common cardboard holder still make two short-timed discs, April 8, 2011

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This review is from: Les Romantiques / Swingling Telemann [Box Set] (Audio CD)

"Les Romantiques" (or "Getting Romantic" in the US) and "Swingling Telemann" ("Rococo A Go Go" in the US) were respectively the Swingle Singers' fourth and fifth albums, from 1965 and 1966. They followed the chart-making "Jazz Sébastien Bach" from 1963 ("Bach's Greatest Hits" in the US; there was a sequel in 1968, "Jazz Sebastien Bach volume 2/"Back to Bach"), "Going Baroque" in 1964 and "Swinging Mozart/Anyone for Mozart" in 1965.

I've posted detailed reviews of the two albums under their individual entries: Getting Romantic and Swingling Telemann. In capsule, the music is great, making the habit of the Swingle Singers to do only snippets and short excerpts but rarely complete works all the more frustrating, frustration compounded by the disappointingly short timings of the CDs. These albums were short even for LPs: hardly over 30 minutes. But in CD era? Philips/Universal could have easily published two on a single CD; in fact, it is what Polygram did in the early 1990s with the two Bach albums (reissued on Jazz Sebastian Bach) and the "Going Baroque" and Mozart albums (Anyone For Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi?).

But no, obviously they thought they could milk the cows here. I simply don't get the point of these "original jacket collection" type of reissues. What's the appeal? Getting the glands of nostalgia of an older generation of listeners to salivate? The problem with that is that, the more we go, the less there will be of that older generation to buy those CDs. And there aren't even thorough liner notes from the original LPs that would justify the LP derivation, just short promotional blurbs.

The missing star in my rating reflects my frustration with the timings. So find the box (it's not a box in fact but an open-ended cardboard holder with the two CDs) priced accordingly.

Note that all the albums of the Paris-based Swingle Singers, recorded between 1963 and 1972, 11 discs in all, were gathered in a box, Best of, not offered at the time of writing but available on the European sister companies.