Classical Changes

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

The whole disc is great fun, and there is enough good musicianship behind the arrangements and the performances to sustain interest on repeated hearings. Well-balanced recorded sound and informative,... — Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2023 More…

Release Date: 10th Feb 2023
Catalogue No: SOMMCD0663
Label: Somm
Length: 72 minutes

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Farrington: The Bite of the Flumblebee (After Rimsky-Korsakov)

Work length1:26

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Art Deco Trio

Farrington: Valerie Takes a Ride (After Wagner's WWV 86B)

Work length4:20

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Art Deco Trio

Farrington: Elise's Blues (After Beethoven's WoO 59)

Work length4:27

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Art Deco Trio

Farrington: Arrival Revival (After Handel)

Work length2:14

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Art Deco Trio

Farrington: One Night in Seville (After Bizet's WD 31)

Work length5:37

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Art Deco Trio

Farrington: Jiffy Dance (After Bizet's WD 31)

Work length2:31

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Art Deco Trio

Farrington: Saturday in the Park with Elgar (After Elgar)

Work length2:59

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Art Deco Trio

Farrington: Country Breaks (After Beethoven)

Work length3:39

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Art Deco Trio

Farrington: Jim's Nobody (After Satie)

Work length4:49

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Art Deco Trio

Farrington: Hungarian High-Five (After Brahms's WoO 1)

Work length4:13

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Art Deco Trio

Farrington: 3am Lullaby (After Brahms's Op. 49 No. 4)

Work length3:50

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Art Deco Trio

Farrington: There's a Storm Brewiing (After Vivaldi's RV 315)

Work length2:28

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Art Deco Trio

Farrington: A Sea Shanty Shake-Up

Work length7:06

$3.00

$3.90

$5.25

Art Deco Trio

I. What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor

Track length2:23

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

II. Lowlands

Track length2:29

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Sailor's Hornpipe

Track length2:14

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Farrington: Lay my burden down

Work length23:11

$5.00

$6.50

$8.75

Art Deco Trio

I. When I Lay My Burden Down

Track length2:53

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

II. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Track length4:40

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Amazing Grace

Track length6:49

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

IV. Steal Away

Track length4:40

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

V. Every Time I Feel the Spirit

Track length4:09

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

About
Reviews
Explore

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 (SOMMCD0631) 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.

Reviews

Sep/Oct 2023

The whole disc is great fun, and there is enough good musicianship behind the arrangements and the performances to sustain interest on repeated hearings. Well-balanced recorded sound and informative, well-written program notes complete the package.

May 2023

they dress up the classics and doff their hats to jazzers from the last century who thought nothing of borrowing from the classical masters.

Classical Changes

CD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue