Dmitri Shostakovich:
Jazz Suite (Arranged 2020 by Iain Farrington for Saxophone Quartet and Piano)

Iain Farrington:
Animal Parade (Adapted and Arranged 2020 by the Composer for Saxophone Quartet and Piano)

Georges Bizet:
Carmen Suite (Arranged 2020 by Iain Farrington for Saxophone Quartet and Piano)

Pedro Iturralde Ochoa:
Memorias (late 1940s) (triptych)

Evoke is the third album of the Ferio Saxophone Quartet, following their previous critically acclaimed albums Flux and Revive. In this recording the Quartet are joined by the pianist Timothy End for a programme of original works and arrangements for piano and saxophone quartet. Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite opens the proceedings, followed by Iain Farrington’s extremely descriptive Animal Parade. Next is Carmen Suite, a virtuosic arrangement of excerpts from Bizet’s opera, before the programme closes with the quintet Memorias by the Spanish composer Pedro Iturralde Ochoa. All the arrangements are by Iain Farrington and recorded here for the first time.

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Recording: St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, London; 10 – 12 May 2021. Steinway Model D Concert Grand Piano (serial no. 513 590).