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”.
1. I Got Rhythm
2. Bach Goes To Town (Prelude and Fugue In Swing)
3. Suite In the Old Style Pastorale
4. Suite In the Old Style Ballet
5. Suite In the Old Style Menuet
6. Suite In the Old Style Fugue
7. Suite In the Old Style Pantomime
8. I Can't Get Started With You
9. 2eme Gnossienne
10. Esquisses De Jazz Rag
11. Esquisses De Jazz Boston
12. Esquisses De Jazz Tango
13. Esquisses De Jazz Blues
14. Esquisses De Jazz Charleston
15. Esquisses De Jazz Black Bottom
16. Marche Royale From L'histoire Du Soldat
17. 7eme Improvisation
18. Summer Ridge Drive
19. Sentimental Melody
20. Jazz Harpsichord Concerto Allegro
21. Jazz Harpsichord Concerto Blues
22. Jazz Harpsichord Concerto Vivace
WORKS BY POULENC/COPLAND/GERSHWIN/STRAVINSKY/HOROVITZ