The ensemble The Swingle Singers:
Joanna Goldsmith-Eteson, soprano
Sara Brimer, soprano
Clara Wheeler, viola
Lucy Bailey, alto
Oliver Griffiths, tenor
Christopher Jay, tenor
Kevin Fox, bass
Tobias Hug, bass
 
 
The Swingle Singers - famous British vocal ensemble, performing music of different periods, styles and genres of a cappella.
The first members of the community was formed in the early 1960s in Paris, an American Svinglom Ward. Members of the ensemble were eight singers, including himself Svingla and Christina Legrand (sister of Michel Legrand). Initially, the band was a group of back-up singers, who worked at a recording studio. Among the singers who collaborated with them was Edith Piaf, Michel Legrand and Charles Aznavour. But soon the idea W. Svingla perform vocal ensemble instrumental music. "Well-Tempered Clavier" IS Bach, GF works Handel, VA Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin in the interpretation of the singers take on special original sound, turned to swing choral composition.
Debut CD Jazz Sebastian Bach (Bach's Greatest Hits in America) immediately received a Grammy Award in the "Best Choral performance" and "Best New Artist", and entered the top ten albums.
In 1969, the New York Philharmonic invited the ensemble to play the main opus Luciano Berio - Sinfonia for orchestra, eight voices, organ, harpsichord and piano to words of Levi-Strauss, and Beckett himself Berio. Premiered in the air on one of the national TV channels USA. After that Sinfonia became one of the iconic pieces of music of the twentieth century.
In 1973, Ward Svingl moved to England and put together a new list of participants of the eight singers. Named ensemble Swingle II. But after a few years of the new name was dropped in favor of the old - The Swingle Singers. The repertoire of the band appeared writings Spanish composers of the early twentieth century, and after the successful release of the album in the Madrigals concerts became actively involved music of the Renaissance. Gradually, in the arsenal of the ensemble there and hits of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1984, Ward Svingl stopped touring with musicians and began producing activities.
Today the group, along with the performance of the classics, to the public is also more modern compositions and arrangements, complemented by the choreography and artistic lighting. However, regardless of the repertoire, corporate identity and manner of performance The Swingle Singers, based on an approximation to the instrumental sound of voices and the use of equipment near the microphone, remains unchanged.
During 35 years of creativity The Swingle Singers have given over 3000 concerts, recorded 40 albums and made arrangements about a thousand a cappella.