Jocelyn Somerville - The Music Never Ends - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Close harmony singing is the vocal equivalent of a jazz big band, and this programme is the Vasari Singers' personal tour of a style in which they have excelled for years. Their connection with Ward Swingle and the pioneering Swingle Singers is explored in arrangements ranging from traditional folk songs such as the haunting Danny Boy, to favourites by The Beatles and the delicious harmonies of Stephen Sondheim. George Shearing's English musical background and American jazz influence combine in his Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare, and the album closes with a cleverly integrated and up-beat version of Duke Ellington's classic It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing). Album Tracks 1. Waltzing Matilda 2. Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) 3. Vem kan segla förutan vind? (Who Can Sail Without the Wind?) 4. Paisanito 5. Romance 6. Fool on the Hill 7. Penny Lane 8. Work(s)~Blackbird - I Will 9. You Must Believe in Spring (from Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) 10. How do you keep the music playing? (from Best Friends) 11. Summer Knows (from Summer of '42) 12. Summer Sonnet 13. Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare~No. 1. Live with me and be my love 14. Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare~No. 2. When daffodils being to peer 15. Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare~No. 3. It was a lover and his lass 16. Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare~No. 4. Spring 17. Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare~No. 5. Who is Silvia? 18. Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare~No. 6. Fie on sinful fantasy 19. Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare~No. 7. Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain 20. Send In the Clowns (from A Little Night Music, Act II) 21. Work(s)~It don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing) / Swing Time