Gershwinicity

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Gershwin songs brought to vivid life by piano, clarinet and sax. What’s not to love? It’s a winning combination and the arrangements are top notch too. This is a recording that is guranteed to... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 16th Apr 2021
Catalogue No: SOMMCD0631
Label: Somm
Length: 70 minutes

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Gershwin: I Got Rhythm

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Peter Sparks, Kyle Horch, Iain Farrington
Art Deco Trio

Gershwin: They all laughed

Work length3:57

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Peter Sparks, Kyle Horch, Iain Farrington
Art Deco Trio

Gershwin: The Man I Love

Work length3:31

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Peter Sparks, Iain Farrington

Gershwin: Nice Work If You Can Get It

Work length3:46

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Peter Sparks, Kyle Horch, Iain Farrington
Art Deco Trio

Gershwin: Summertime (from Porgy and Bess)

Work length7:56

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Kyle Horch, Iain Farrington

Gershwin: They Can't Take That Away From Me

Work length4:51

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Peter Sparks, Kyle Horch, Iain Farrington
Art Deco Trio

Gershwin: Fidgety Feet

Work length3:20

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Iain Farrington

Gershwin: Love Is Here to Stay

Work length5:06

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Kyle Horch, Iain Farrington

Gershwin: I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise

Work length4:07

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Peter Sparks, Kyle Horch, Iain Farrington
Art Deco Trio

Gershwin: Do It Again

Work length3:51

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Iain Farrington

Gershwin: It Ain't Necessarily So (from Porgy and Bess)

Work length2:42

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Kyle Horch, Iain Farrington

Gershwin: Someone to Watch over Me

Work length4:52

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Peter Sparks, Iain Farrington

Gershwin: I've got a crush on you

Work length3:45

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Kyle Horch, Iain Farrington

Gershwin: But Not for Me

Work length2:49

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Peter Sparks, Iain Farrington

Farrington: Gershwinicity (after Gershwin)

Work length14:18

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Peter Sparks, Kyle Horch, Iain Farrington
Art Deco Trio

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"SOMM RECORDINGS is delighted to announce the debut recording of composer-pianist Iain Farrington's Art Deco Trio, featuring 15 new instrumental arrangements blending classical and jazz influences of songs by George Gershwin. In 2012, Farrington played piano in the London Olympic Games' opening ceremony in a comic performance of Chariots of Fire with Rowan Atkinson (as Mr. Bean) and the LSO conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. His Beethoveniana – a thrilling distillation of Beethoven's nine symphonies into a seven-minute piece for 323 BBC orchestra musicians, the BBC Singers and two dancers – was a highlight of the locked-down 2020 BBC Proms. Taking its name from the defining style of the Gershwin era, the Art Deco Trio – Peter Sparks (clarinet), Kyle Horch (alto and soprano saxophones) and Farrington (piano) – 'mixes elegance and clean lines with the exuberance and bold colours' of its distinctive signature. The disc takes its title from Farrington's 'fantasia' on five Gershwin standards stamped through with infectious rhythmic energy and the most memorable of melodies. First heard in shorter form at the 2018 BBC Proms, Gershwinicity is a dazzling celebration of one the 20th century's most popular songwriters."

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June 2021

Gershwin songs brought to vivid life by piano, clarinet and sax. What’s not to love? It’s a winning combination and the arrangements are top notch too. This is a recording that is guranteed to get you moving.

March/April 2022

Not only are the arrangements superb, but so is the Art Deco Trio’s performance of them. Its members have, collectively and individually, Gershwin’s style really nailed down. More than that, they evidence an ability to adjust their style of playing to the character of the song at hand...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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