Place Vendôme (released as Encounter in the U.S.) is an album released by the Swingle Singers performing with the Modern Jazz Quartet. This album as Encounter was a 1968 Grammy award nominee for Best Performance By A Chorus.
All tracks from this album are also included on the Mercury compilation CD Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers and the 11 disk Philips boxed set, Swingle Singers.
Track listing "Sascha" (Little David's Fugue) (John Lewis) – 4:18 "Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major," (aka "Air on the G String") BWV 1068 (J. S. Bach) – 5:41 "Vendôme" (Lewis) – 3:32 "The Musical Offering" (Musikalisches Opfer), for keyboard and chamber instruments, BWV 1079 (Bach) – 6:34 "When I am Laid in Earth" (from Dido and Aeneas), soprano aria ("Dido's Lament") (Henry Purcell) – 5:05 "Alexander's Fugue" (Lewis) – 4:53 "Three Windows" (Lewis) – 7:10
Personnel The Swingle Singers: Jeanette Baucomont – soprano Christiane Legrand – soprano Alice Herald – alto Claudine Meunier – alto Ward Swingle – tenor, arranger Claude Germain – tenor Jean Cussac – bass José Germain – bass The Modern Jazz Quartet: John Lewis – piano Milt Jackson – vibraphone Percy Heath – double bass Connie Kay – drums
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