The great recordings

To celebrate the occasion of Parkening's 25th year of recording, this is a digitally remastered collection of Christopher Parkening's personal favorite recordings from the beginning of his career to the present.

Main Author: Parkening, Christopher,
Format: CD
Language: No linguistic content
Published: [Hollywood, Calif.] : EMI Classics, [1993]
Physical Description: 2 audio discs (145 min.) : digital, stereophonic ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Disc 1. Fugue from Violin sonata no. 1, BWV 1001 / J.S. Bach ; trans. Segovia
  • Estudio brillante / F. Tárrega (2:03)
  • Etude no. 1 in E minor / H. Villa-Lobos (1:52)
  • Recuerdos de la Alhambra / F. Tárrega (3:52)
  • Leyenda / I. Albéniz ; trans. Segovia (6:20)
  • Romance / Anon. ; arr. Marshall (1:53)
  • Rumores de la Caleta / I. Albéniz ; arr. Parkening (3:32)
  • Capricho Árabe / F. Tárrega (5:07)
  • Jesu, joy of man's desiring from Cantata 147 / J.S. Bach ; trans. Foster (3:03)
  • Prelude no. 1 from Well-tempered clavier (2:01) ; Prelude no. 6 from Well-tempered clavier (1:39) ; Sleepers awake from Cantata 140 (4:30) / J.S. Bach ; trans. Parkening
  • Allegro from Prelude, fugue & allegro / J.S. Bach ; trans. Williams (3:00)
  • Sheep may safely graze from Cantata 208 / J.S. Bach ; trans. Foster (4:45)
  • Les barricades mystérieuses (2:12) / F. Couperin ; arr. Parkening
  • Preámbulo & allegro vivo / M. Ponce (4:16)
  • Passacaglia / S.L. Weiss ; arr. Parkening (3:54)
  • Girl with the flaxen hair / C. Debussy ; arr. Marshall (2:30)
  • Gymnopédie no. 1 / E. Satie ; arr. Parkening (2:48)
  • Empress of the pagodas / M. Ravel ; arr. Hyman (3:22)
  • Afro-Cuban lullaby / trad. ; arr. Marshall (2:36).
  • Disc. 2. Präludium from Fourth lute suite / J.S. Bach ; trans. Parkening (3:37)
  • Fairest Lord Jesus / trad. ; arr. Ravenscroft (1:59)
  • Praise ye the Lord, K. 339 / W.A. Mozart ; trans. Ravenscroft (3:40)
  • Simple gifts / trad. ; arr. Ravenscroft, Sutherland (2:37)
  • Hymn of Christian joy / G. Young ; trans. Ravenscroft (2:40)
  • We thank thee, Lord from Cantata 29 / J.S. Bach ; trans. Ravenscroft, Parkening (4:03)
  • Arioso from Cantata 156 / J.S. Bach ; arr. Russ (3:01)
  • What God hath done from Cantata 99 / J.S. Bach, W. Walton ; arr. Ravenscroft (2:39)
  • Canon / G. Telemann ; trans. Parkening (1:31)
  • Berceuse from Dolly suite / G. Fauré, trans. Russ (2:50)
  • Spanish dance no. 1 from La vida brève / M. Falla ; trans. Pujol (3:10)
  • Terezinha de Jesus / H. Villa-Lobos ; trans. Pujol (2:34)
  • Prelude : in the Baroque style / M. Ponce ; trans. Ravenscroft (2:35)
  • Intermezzo from Goyescas / E. Granados ; trans. Pujol (4:28)
  • Fugue from Prelude & fugue no. 4 in E / M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1:53)
  • Evening dance / A. York (4:02)
  • Variations on a theme of Mozart / F. Sor (6:15)
  • Canarios / G. Sanz ; trans. Parkening (1:23)
  • La maja de Goya / E. Granados ; trans. Russ (4:55)
  • El noi de la mare / trad. ; arr. Segovia, Llobet (2:08)
  • Adagio from Concerito de Aranjuez / J. Rodrigo (10:31).