Swingle II (The Swingle Singers) - Three Shakespeare Songs (Vaughan Williams) - Live in Norway 1978

[@eensio]

Top professional singers can start singing chords direct from only one note! Splendid singing and presentation!

[@nigelritson9910]

Wonderful performance. An extraordinary pleasure to hear.

[@charlesmetcalfe6163]

Lovely part-singing! xx

[@Mollegato]

Wow! I didn't know this recording existed. Thank you for posting it Daniel - a real trip down memory lane!

[@danielralphsson9108]

At you service! Swingle Singers have meant SO much for my musical development during my youth - and still does. I think you have one of the most beautiful voices I've ever experienced...

[@Mollegato]

Awww... thank you Daniel! KZbin is still a mystery to me but I have managed to upload some later recordings - and then they seemed to divide themselves between my Mollegato page and my Google+ page - which is an even greater mystery to me.

[@danielralphsson9108]

yes, it's not easy, and even harder to transfer music and video recordings to the computer. I have waited for the Swingle recordings to turn up on CD or Spotify... It's a pity! Swingle Singers for me will always be the brittish group under the direction of Ward. I have managed to find some of the LP:s, but it's hard to find them all. Even harder is it to find the cassettes...

[@Mollegato]

Now that vinyl and cassettes are coming back into favour perhaps there will be a revival! We never made any progress with persuading the record companies to release the masters to us - Ward and I tried - and we don't own them - hence the absence of CDs. Such a shame! But the sound quality on these recordings is very good - so delighted to have them! Now if I could just work out how to transfer the link to my page...

[@MarcoInchingolo83]

Amazing! Thank you!

[@marachime]

OMG IT'S ACTUALLY THEM

[@richardjones4427]

if im correct the girl second to the left was going out with George best..the guy second to the left was seeing Freddie mercury

[@savioalves1234]

This is extremelly hard to perform on pitch (The first and the last songs are suuuuuper hard to mantein the pitch).

[@vonhoother]

I completely disagree--all three are beastly hard to keep on pitch! I've heard more than one competent ensemble drop a quarter of a tone over the first six bars "The Cloud-Capped Towers."

[@miguelkantor1076]

Ausgezeinet

[@stenmoller5700]

The presentation of Over hill, over dale is nothing but ridiculous. Yes, they can sing fast, but that's not what the piece is about. Pay attention to the lyrics and the meaning of the setting of the music. It's no competition about who can sing it the fastest. Get the rhythm intended. Otherwise you prove you pay no attention to detail.

[@ockeghem35]

Adventurous may be a kinder adjective, when describing the tempo....