Love Songs for Madrigals and Madriguys
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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. Ward Swingle
arranged and adapted the music for the new group.
side A:
LP side B:
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
-based a cappella
A cappella
A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
group Swingle II, who were the immediate successors to 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 although the eight vocalists were all new. 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...
arranged and adapted the music for the new group.
Track listing
LPLP record
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
side A:
- "Il est bel et bon" (Pierre PassereauPierre PassereauPierre Passereau was a French composer of the Renaissance. Along with Clément Janequin, he was one of the most popular composers of "Parisian" chansons in France in the 1530s. His output consisted almost exclusively of chansons; most of them were published by printer Pierre Attaingnant...
) – 1:19 - "O Let Me Live for True Love" (Thomas TomkinsThomas TomkinsThomas Tomkins was an English composer of the late Tudor and early Stuart period. In addition to being one of the prominent members of the English madrigal school, he was a skilled composer of keyboard and consort music, and the last member of the English virginalist school.-Life:Tomkins was born...
) – 2:47 - "Mein Lieb will mit mir kriegen" (Hans Leo HasslerHans Leo HasslerHans Leo Hassler was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of the less-famous Jakob Hassler...
) – 1:53 - "The Silver Swan" (Orlando GibbonsOrlando GibbonsOrlando Gibbons was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods...
) – 2:52 - "Mas vale trocar" (Juan del EncinaJuan del EncinaJuan del Enzina – the spelling he used – or Juan del Encina – modern Spanish spelling – was a composer, poet and playwright, often called the founder of Spanish drama...
) – 1:55 - "Though Amaryllis Dance" (William ByrdWilliam ByrdWilliam Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard and consort music.-Provenance:Knowledge of Byrd's biography expanded in the late 20th century, thanks largely...
) – 1:49 - "Cargado de tantos males" (anon.) – 2:23
LP side B:
- "Revecy venir du printemps" (Claude Le JeuneClaude Le JeuneClaude Le Jeune was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the primary representative of the musical movement known as musique mesurée, and a significant composer of the "Parisian" chanson, the predominant secular form in France in the latter half of the 16th century...
) – 2:04 - "Come Again!" (John DowlandJohn DowlandJohn Dowland was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep" , "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and has...
) – 1:45 - "Je ne saurais ni chanter ni rire" (Mathieu GascongneMathieu GascongneMathieu Gascongne was a French composer of the Renaissance. Contemporaries, such as Adrian Willaert grouped him with Josquin, Ockeghem, and Jean Mouton as among the finest composers of the time...
) – 1:50 - "Mir ist ein feins brauns Maidelein" (Caspar OthmayrCaspar OthmayrCaspar Othmayr was a German Protestant priest, theologian and composer.Othmayr was born in Amberg, Upper Palatinate, and studied in Heidelberg as a pupil of Lorenz Lemlin, among others. Later, he became rector of the monastery school of Heilsbronn near Ansbach...
) – 2:34 - "Bon jour, mon coeur" (Orlande de LassusOrlande de LassusOrlande de Lassus was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance...
) – 2:25 - "Pues que me tienes, Miguel" (Francisco Ortega) – 1:49
- "Farewell, Dear Love" (Robert Jones) – 2:25