Aaron Copland - George Gershwin - Igor Stravinsky - Alfred Schnittke - Joseph Horovitz - Erwin Schulhoff - Alec Templeton - Francis Poulenc - Erik Satie

Some Like it Plucked

Patrick Ayrton

Label: Globe
Format: CD
Barcode: 8711525527201

Catalog number: GLO 5272
Releasedate: 05-04-19

- This album forms an important addition to the very limited repertoire of jazz recordings involving harpsichord
- The Horovitz Jazz Harpsichord Concerto is currently unavailable on CD
- Some Like it Plucked is available as a hand numbered 1.000 copy limited edition

On Some Like it Plucked harpsichordist, organist and conductor Patrick Ayrton successfully combines jazz and 20th century piano pieces in arrangements for harpsichord. Ayrton's ensemble Les Inventions and violinist Thomas Gould join in for the pièce de résistance of this album: Joseph Horovitz' 1965 Jazz Harpsichord Concerto. In this highly entertaining concerto, Horovitz ingeniously crosses Vivaldian sonata and concerto forms with Gershwinian harmonies in what the composer describes himself as “an attempt to fuse Baroque structures into a modern conception of swing texture”. https://youtu.be/67etuh97olw