In the Coronation year of 1953, Trinidad-born pianist Winifred Atwell recorded Let’s Have a Party, a right royal knees-up of songs from yesteryear knocked out on her ‘other’ piano. Perhaps in anticipation of the crowning of our new monarch, something of that party spirit seems to have rubbed off on Iain Farrington and friends as they dress up the classics and doff their hats to jazzers from the last century who thought nothing of borrowing from the classical masters.

Art Deco let their hair down in ‘There’s a Storm Brewing’, drawn from Vivaldi’s Summer, where the clarinet of Peter Sparks and saxophone of Kyle Horch ping-pong across the stereo spectrum in playful fashion; I liked too the wacky send-up of Wagner in ‘Valerie Takes a Ride’ (geddit?). Sparks takes the limelight for the soulful ‘Elise’s Blues’ after Für Elise, while Farrington burns the midnight oil on ‘3am Lullaby’, harmonised after Brahms.

There’s a striking employment of aural chiaroscuro in Farrington’s ‘One Night in Seville’, where Carmen cases the joints of Seville, car horns honking, and in a similar pictorial vein, an impressionistic afternoon drawn from Satie’s Gymnopédie No 1, dressed up as ‘Jim’s Nobody’. He takes a leaf from the master of the stride style, James P Johnson, in ‘Arrival Revival’, based on Handel’s Queen of Sheba, and swings Elgar, always a picture of decorum, while the trio run riot in the ‘Drunken Sailor’ from A Sea Shanty Shake-Up. On a more serious note, ‘Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child’ from Lay My Burden Down – a sequence of African American Spirituals – leads us to a darker place, where the off-beat piano chords under the languorous clarinet line suggest an unsettling undercurrent.

Exemplary recording and balance from producer Siva Oke and her team in the Menuhin Hall, on the banks of the River Mole, in Stoke d’Abernon.