The Swingle Singers (Paris, 1962 – 1973)

• Jazz Sébastien Bach
  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 /...
  
  (1963) Philips
  Philips Records
  Philips Records is a record label that was founded by Dutch electronics company Philips. It was started by "Philips Phonographische Industrie" in 1950. Recordings were made with popular artists of various nationalities and also with classical artists from Germany, France and Holland. Philips also...
  
   – aka Bach's Greatest Hits
• Going Baroque / de Bach aux Baroques
  Going Baroque
  Going Baroque is the second album released by the Paris-based Swingle Singers...
  
  (1964) Philips
• Swinging Mozart
  Anyone for Mozart?
  Anyone for Mozart? is the third album released by the Swingle Singers. The album was a 1965 Grammy award winner for "Best Performance by a Chorus."...
  
  (1965) Philips – aka Anyone for Mozart?
• Les Romantiques
  Getting Romantic
  Getting Romantic is the fourth album released by the Swingle Singers.All tracks from this album are also included on the 11 CD Philips boxed set, Swingle Singers.-Track listing:...
  
  (1965) Philips – aka Getting Romantic
• Swingling Telemann
  Rococo A Go Go
  Rococo Á Go Go is the fifth album released by the Swingle Singers. The album was nominated for a 1966 Grammy award....
  
  (1966) Philips – aka Rococo À Go Go
• Place Vendôme
  Place Vendôme (Swingle Singers with MJQ album)
  Place Vendôme is an album released by the Swingle Singers performing with the Modern Jazz Quartet...
  
  with the Modern Jazz Quartet (1966) Philips – aka Encounter
• Sounds of Spain: Concerto d'Aranjuez
  Spanish Masters
  Spanish Masters is the seventh album released by the Paris-based Swingle Singers. All tracks from this album are also included on the 11 disk Philips boxed set, Swingle Singers....
  
  (1967) Philips – aka Spanish Masters
• Operazione San Pietro
  Operazione San Pietro
  Operazione San Pietro is a soundtrack album for the 1967 Lucio Fulci movie of the same name - with music by Ward Swingle performed by The Swingle Singers.-Track listing:#"Titoli: Operazione San Pietro" – 1:54...
  
  (movie soundtrack) (1968) C.A.M.
• Noëls Sans Passeport
  Christmastime (Swingle Singers album)
  Christmastime is an album of Christmas songs released by the Swingle Singers in 1968 on the Philips Records label. It was reissued with the title Christmas Album...
  
  (1968) Philips – aka Christmastime
• Jazz Sébastien Bach, Vol. 2
  Back to Bach
  Back to Bach is a 1968 album released by the Paris-based Swingle Singers.All tracks from this album are also included on the CD re-issue / compilation, Jazz Sebastian Bach Back to Bach (released as Jazz Sébastien Bach, Vol. 2 in France) is a 1968 album released by the Paris-based Swingle...
  
  (1968) Philips – aka Back to Bach
• American Look
  American Look
  American Look is a 1969 album by the Swingle Singers on the Philips Records label. All tracks from this album are also included on the 11 disk Philips boxed set, Swingle Singers.-Track listing:...
  
  (1969) Philips
• Sinfonia: Luciano Berio conducting the New York Philharmonic and Swingle Singers
  Sinfonia (1968 Berio album)
  Sinfonia is a 1968 Columbia Records recording of Luciano Berio conducting the New York Philharmonic and The Swingle Singers in the premier of his 4 movement "Sinfonia." The composer would later add a fifth movement....
  
  (1969) Columbia / CBS
  Columbia Records
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• The Joy of Singing
  The Joy of Singing
  The Joy of Singing, aka Les 4 Saisons is a 1969 album by the Swingle Singers on the Philips Records label. All tracks from this album are also included on the 11 disk Philips boxed set, Swingle Singers....
  
  (1972) Philips – aka Les 4 Saisons, "Le Printemps"
• Bitter Ending
  Bitter Ending
  Bitter Ending, is a recording of a work for eight voices composed by Andre Hodeir as commissioned by Ward Swingle. The work is performed by the Swingle Singers with a jazz quintet...
  
  (1972) Epic
  Epic Records
  Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...
  
  

Swingle II / The Swingles / The (New) Swingle Singers (London, 1974 – present)

• Love Songs for Madrigals and Madriguys
  Love Songs for Madrigals and Madriguys
  Swingle II, Love Songs for Madrigals and Madriguys is the debut recording of the London-based a cappella group Swingle II, who were the immediate successors to the Paris-based Swingle Singers although the eight vocalists were all new...
  
  (1974) Columbia / CBS
• Words and Music (1974) CBS
• Rags and All that Jazz (1976) CBS
• Lovin' You: Words and Music Vol. 2 (1976) CBS
• Baroque (1976) CBS
• Luciano Berio and Swingle II - A-Ronne / Cries Of London (1976) Decca
  Decca Records
  Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
  
  
• English and French Songs (1977) RCA
  RCA Records
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• Pieces of Eight (1977) CBS
• Swingle Bells (1978) Moss Music Group / EMI
  EMI Records
  EMI Records is the flagship record label founded by the EMI company in 1972 and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia label. The EMI label was launched worldwide...
  
  
• No Time to Talk (1979) CBS
• Swingle Skyliner (1979) Moss Music Group / EMI
• Folio (1980) Moss Music Group / EMI
• The Swingle Singers "Live" in New York '82 (2006) Swing CD R01 (archive release)
• Reflections (1985)
• Instrumentals, Polydor
  Polydor Records
  Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...
  
  
• Live at Ronnie Scott's (1987)
• Azio Corghi: Mazapegul, Ballet for vocal octet and oboe composed in 1985, recorded on Dischi Ricordi CRMCD 1006 (1988)
• 1812 (1989) Swing CD4, reissued by Virgin Classics
  Virgin Records
  Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...
  
   (1995) – a mix of 8 studio and 7 live tracks
• The Bach Album (1991) Swing CD5, reissued by Virgin Classics as Bach Hits Back (1994) augmented of 5 tracks
• A Cappella Amadeus, A Mozart Celebration (1991) Virgin Classics
• Around the World, Folk Songs (1991) Virgin Classics – aka (Around the World) Folk Music
• Luciano Berio: Sinfonia, Eindrücke (1992) Erato – performance with the Orchestre National de France conducted by Pierre Boulez
• Notability (1993) Swing CD7
• The Story of Christmas (1994) Swing CD8, reissued by Primarily A Cappella (1998)
• Pretty Ring Time (1994) Swing CD9
• New World (1995) Swing CD10
• The Swingle Singers Sing Irving Berlin (1996) Sanctuary Records - aka Nothing But Blue Skies, The Irving Berlin Songbook
• The Swingle Singers, Live! (1997) Swing CD11
• Screen Tested (1998) Swing CD12
• Ticket to Ride - A Beatles Tribute (1999) Swing CD15, reissued by Primarily A Cappella (2002)
• Keyboard Classics (2000) Swing CD16, reissued by Primarily A Cappella (2002) – aka Dabadaba Classics, King
• Live in Japan (2001) Swing CD17 (recorded in December 2000)
• Mood Swings (2002) Swing CD18 – Primarily A Cappella, aka Dabadaba Swing, King
• Retrospective: The 40th Anniversary Show (2003) Swing CD19 - Primarily A Cappella (live)
• Unwrapped (2004) Swing CD20 - Signum – aka Just Voices: A Cappella Christmas (Evosound)
• Dido's Lament (2005) Swing CD S01 – EP
  Extended play
  An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
  
  
• Beauty and the Beatbox (2007) Signum – with beatbox artist, Shlomo
• Ferris Wheels (2009) Swing CD22

Notable compilations

• Anyone for Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi?
  Anyone for Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi?
  Anyone for Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi? is a CD compilation / re-issue of music by the Swingle Singers. It combines tracks from two previous LP releases, Going Baroque and Swinging Mozart .- Track listing :# "Piano Sonata No. 15 in C major" K. 545 Anyone for Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi? is...
  
  (1986) Philips / Phonogram France – a single disc combining Anyone for Mozart? (aka Swinging Mozart) and Going Baroque (aka de Bach aux Baroques), minus one track from the latter ("Allegro" from Händel's Concerto Grosso Op. 6)
• Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers
  Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers
  Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers is a compilation album of previously released tracks from 3 Philips Swingle Singers recordings: Place Vendôme , Getting Romantic and Spanish Masters .- Track listing :# "Air for G String" – 5:37# "Zortzico"...
  
  (1987) Mercury
  Mercury Records
  Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
  
   – a single disc compilation of the complete Place Vendôme collaboration of the Paris-based Swingle Singers with the Modern Jazz Quartet (aka Encounter), complemented with 6 tracks from Getting Romantic and 3 tracks from Spanish Masters / Sounds of Spain
• Compilation Album (Reflections & Live at Ronnie Scotts) (1989) Swing CD1/2
• 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...
  
  (2000) Philips / Phonogram – a single disc combining Bach's Greatest Hits (aka Jazz Sébastien Bach) and Back to Bach (aka Jazz Sébastien Bach 2)
• 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...
  
  (2005) Philips – 11 disc boxed set of all 11 Philips recordings (from 1963~1972) by the original Swingle Singers
• (Best of) The Swingle Singers (2005) Virgin Classics – a single disc compilation of 15 tracks from the 4 albums from the London-based group published in the early 1990s by Virgin Classics: 1 track from 1812, 5 tracks from Bach Hits Back, 5 tracks from Around the World, Folk Songs and 4 tracks from A Cappella Amadeus, A Mozart Celebration. The same compilation had been published by Virgin France in 1991 with the title Swingle Singers La Compilation
• The Swingle Singers: Anthology (2009) Virgin Classics – 4 disc boxed set of the 4 previously released Virgin Classics albums from the London-based group of the late '80's / early '90's
• Swing Sing (2009) Sony
  Sony Music Entertainment
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  – a single disc compilation of tracks from Swingle II (London) recordings of the 1970's on CBS Records, culled from Rags and All that Jazz (complete), Lovin' You: Words and Music vol. 2 (6 tracks), Words and Music (2 tracks) and No Time to Talk (1 track)

Other recordings

• Faisceaux / Diffractions / Swingle Novae Jean-Claude Eloy / Michel Zbar (1972) Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)
• Idsteiner Schloss Konzerte 79/80
• Sonnets of Desolation / Visions and Spels (1984) Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) SD 515 – "features The New Swingle Singers on side one performing Ben Johnston's "Sonnets of Desolation" and the New Verbal Workshop on side two performing Johnston's "Visions and Spels"
• Let's All Get Together (1984) – with Ad Libitum and The Bengt Hallberg Trio