The Swingle Singers - Anyone For Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi? (1964)

This CD collates the original group's second and third albums, both for Philips: "Going Baroque" in 1964 (subtitled on the original French release "De Bach aux Baroques") and "Anyone for Mozart?" in 1965 (aka "Swinging Mozart" in France). LPs had short timings in those days, remember? The "Baroque" LP was 24:30 and the Mozart 28 minutes - making it incomprehensible and really unjustifiable that for the reissue Philips should have left out one track from the Baroque LP, the Allegro from Haendel's Concerto Grosso Op. 6 in A-flat, for a TT that, at 50 minutes, is relatively stingy, and would still have been if the track has been included. But it is still twice as good, time-wise, as the recent reissues from Emarcy, a branch of Philips (referenced on this website as Philips Import), which consist of the original albums "straight": Going Baroque and Swinging Mozart (both have been collated in a twofer, Going Baroque / Swinging Mozart). And the missing track can be downloaded for the usual cost of one track. Incidentally, what is played on track 3 is absolutely not Mozart's 14th Sonate K 333, but the first movement of Sonata No. 5 K 283, and K. 545 (track 1) is Mozart's 16th Piano Sonata, not his 15th.