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Back to Bach is a 1968 album

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 Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

-based Swingle Singers.

All tracks from this album are also included on the CD re-issue / compilation, Jazz Sebastian Bach
Jazz Sebastian Bach
Jazz Sebastian Bach is a compilation album / re-issue of music by the Paris-based Swingle Singers. It combines the tracks from two previous releases, 1963's Bach's Greatest Hits aka Jazz Sébastien Bach with 1968's Back to Bach aka Jazz Sébastien Bach Vol...

(combined with all tracks from 1963's Bach's Greatest Hits aka Jazz Sébastien Bach (Vol. 1)

Bach's Greatest Hits

Bach's Greatest Hits is the debut album released by the Paris-based Swingle Singers. The album was a 1963 Grammy award winner for "Best Performance by a Chorus" and the group also won the 1963 Grammy award for "Best New Artist"All tracks from this album are also included on the CD re-issue /...

) and also 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...

.

Track listing

all compositions by J.S. Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

"Vivace" from Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in D minor ("Double"), BWV 1043 – 3:19
"Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 10 in E minor" (WTC I), BWV 855 (BC L89) – 3:01
"Choral" from Cantata No. 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben," BWV 147 (BC A174) – 3:28
"Gavotte" from Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006 – 2:30
"Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 1 in C major" (WTC I), BWV 846 (BC L80) – 3:22
"Fugue" from Prelude and Fugue, for organ in G major, BWV 541 (BC J22) – 3:19
"Adagio" from Sonata for violin & keyboard No. 3 in E major, BWV 1016 – 3:56
"Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 3 in C sharp major" (WTC I), BWV 848 (BC L82) – 3:18
"Prelude" from "Nun komm der Heiden Heiland" (II), chorale prelude for organ (Achtzehn Choräle No. 8), BWV 659 (BC K82) – 3:30
"Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 21 in B flat major" (WTC I), BWV 866 (BC L100) – 1:24

Personnel

Vocals:

Jeanette Baucomont – soprano
Christiane Legrand
Christiane Legrand
Christiane 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
Hélène Devos – alto
Claudine Meunier – alto
Ward Swingle
Ward Swingle
Ward 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
Joseph Noves – tenor
Jean Cussac – bass
Jose Germain – bass

Rhythm section:

Pierre Michelot – double bass
Double bass
The 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...
Bernard Lubat or Daniel Humair – drums

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