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Farrington: Classical Changes / Art Deco Trio

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Details

Composer
Iain Farrington
Artist
Art Deco Trio
Format
CD
Label
SOMM Recordings
Released
Mar 03, 2023
Catalog #
SOMMCD 0663
UPC
748871066328

About

SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce Classical Changes, a second disc by the Art Deco Trio which treats favourite classical pieces to delightful and often dazzling jazz-accented re-workings in variegated arrangements by Iain Farrington. Comprising three remarkable instrumentalists – Peter Sparks clarinet, Kyle Horch saxophone, Iain Farrington piano – the Art Deco Trio is a virtuosic powerhouse in performance and made its acclaimed label debut with Gershwinicity (SOMMCD 0631) in 2021. Also featuring five African-American Spirituals and three sea shanties, Classical Change takes the early-20th-century fashion for “Jazzing the Classics” at face value with a collection of 20 first recordings of scintillating new arrangements, translating the works’ “original sober environment into one that was more intoxicated”, as Farrington tellingly comments in his booklet notes.

Familiar pieces by Beethoven, Brahms and Rimsky-Korsakov are respectively refashioned in the, by turns, evocative, exuberant and ecstatic ‘Elise’s Blues’, ‘Hungarian High-Five’ and ‘The Bite of the Flumblebee’. Similar treatment is afforded Bizet (The excitable ‘Jiffy Dance’ and sultry ‘One Night in Seville’), the ceremonial pomp of Handel (‘Arrival Revival’), grandeur of Elgar (‘Saturday in the Park with Elgar’), and grandiosity of Wagner (‘Valerie Takes a Ride’) alongside vivacious re-imaginings of Satie and Vivaldi. The trio of sea shanties in A Sea Shanty Shake-Up and the five-part Lay My Burden Down, drawn from African-American Spirituals, prove pleasingly amenable to Farrington’s jazz-laced re-fashioning of their various messages and moods.Of the Art Deco Trio’s Gershwinicity, BBC Music Magazine declared “What’s not to love? It’s a winning combination and the arrangements are top-notch too. This is a recording that is guaranteed to get you moving”. Fanfare approvingly commented: “Not only are the arrangements superb, but so is the Art Deco Trio’s performance of them … I think it’s a safe bet that any Gershwin aficionado will be as captivated with this disc as I was”.

Tracklist 20 tracks

  1. 1 The Bite of the Flumblebee (after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov) 01:26
    Track
    1
    Title
    The Bite of the Flumblebee (after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov)
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  2. 2 Valerie Takes a Ride (after R. Wagner) 04:20
    Track
    2
    Title
    Valerie Takes a Ride (after R. Wagner)
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  3. 3 Elise's Blues (after L. van Beethoven) 04:27
    Track
    3
    Title
    Elise's Blues (after L. van Beethoven)
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  4. 4 Arrival Revival (after G.F. Handel) 02:14
    Track
    4
    Title
    Arrival Revival (after G.F. Handel)
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  5. 5 One Night in Seville (after G. Bizet) 05:38
    Track
    5
    Title
    One Night in Seville (after G. Bizet)
    Duration
    05:38
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  6. 6 Jiffy Dance (after G. Bizet) 02:32
    Track
    6
    Title
    Jiffy Dance (after G. Bizet)
    Duration
    02:32
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  7. 7 Saturday in the Park with Elgar (after E. Elgar) 03:00
    Track
    7
    Title
    Saturday in the Park with Elgar (after E. Elgar)
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  8. 8 Country Breaks (after L. van Beethoven) 03:40
    Track
    8
    Title
    Country Breaks (after L. van Beethoven)
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  9. 9 Jim's Nobody (after E. Satie) 04:49
    Track
    9
    Title
    Jim's Nobody (after E. Satie)
    Duration
    04:49
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  10. 10 Hungarian High-Five (after J. Brahms) 04:14
    Track
    10
    Title
    Hungarian High-Five (after J. Brahms)
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  11. 11 3am Lullaby (after J. Brahms) 03:51
    Track
    11
    Title
    3am Lullaby (after J. Brahms)
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  12. 12 There's a Storm Brewing (after A. Vivaldi) 02:28
    Track
    12
    Title
    There's a Storm Brewing (after A. Vivaldi)
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  13. 13 No. 1. What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor 02:24
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 1. What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  14. 14 No. 2. Lowlands 02:29
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 2. Lowlands
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  15. 15 No. 3. Sailor's Hornpipe 02:14
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 3. Sailor's Hornpipe
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  16. 16 No. 1. When I Lay My Burden Down 02:54
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 1. When I Lay My Burden Down
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  17. 17 No. 2. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 04:41
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 2. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
    Duration
    04:41
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  18. 18 No. 3. Amazing Grace 06:50
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 3. Amazing Grace
    Duration
    06:50
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  19. 19 No. 4. Steal Away 04:41
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 4. Steal Away
    Duration
    04:41
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio
  20. 20 No. 5. Every Time I Feel the Spirit 04:10
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 5. Every Time I Feel the Spirit
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Iain Farrington
    Ensemble
    Art Deco Trio