Farrington / Art Deco Trio: ClaSSical Changes
Farrington / Art Deco Trio: ClaSSical Changes
Format: CD
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Artist: Farrington / Art Deco Trio
Label: Somm Recordings
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 748871066328
Genre: Classical
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 it's 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".
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