He has been nominated twice for a Grammy Award. Parkening has recorded extensively for Angel and EMI Classics. Star in honor of Parkening, on the sidewalk outside the Ellen Theater in Bozeman, Montana His autobiography Grace Like a River was published in 2006. He then released Simple Gifts, an album of traditional Christian hymns arranged for classical guitar. Profoundly affected by this experience Parkening returned to recording and performing with a renewed sense of purpose. While visiting his Southern California home in winter, a neighbor invited Parkening to the Grace Community Church. During this period Parkening rarely played guitar choosing instead to focus his attention on his Montana ranch and trout stream.
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Segovia has stated that, "Christopher Parkening is a great artist-he is one of the most brilliant guitarists in the world."Īt age 30, Parkening withdrew from public performances and recording seeking a respite from the demands of a professional career and a chance to pursue his hobby of flyfishing. By the age of 19 he had embarked on a professional career of regular touring and recording. His cousin Jack Marshall, a studio musician active in the 1960s, introduced Parkening to the recordings of Andrés Segovia when he was 11 and encouraged his classical guitar studies. Parkening was born in Los Angeles, California. Guitar Concerto #1 in D -Ritmico e cavalleresco (3rd movement) (6:39) Reflections from Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra for Two Christophers (9:28)ġ2. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring From Cantata (3:06)ġ1. Allegro vivace from Essay for Guitar (2000 Digital Remaster) (4:14)Ġ2. Andante Tranquillo from Essay for Guitar (2000 Digital Remaster) (3:42)Ġ7. Allegretto from Essay for Guitar (2000 Digital Remaster) (3:38)Ġ6.
The Alhambra - La Vega (2000 Digital Remaster arr. Celebration from Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra for Two Christophers (4:13)Ġ4. Reflections from Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra for Two Christophers (9:29)Ġ3. Guitar from Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra for Two Christophers (8:27)Ġ2. Suite in D Major: (from "Terpsichore, Musarum Aoniarum)Ġ1. What God Hath Done Is Rightly Done (from Cantata 99) (2:39)Ġ4. Withstand Firmly All Sin (from Cantata 54) (7:25)Ġ9. God Alone Should Have My Heart (from Cantata 169) (3:18)Ġ7. Sheep May Safely Graze (from Cantata 208) (5:44)Ġ6. How Joyful Is My Heart (from Cantata 199) (3:26)Ġ5. Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring (from Cantata 147) (3:17)Ġ4. We Thank Thee, Lord, We Thank Thee (from Cantata 29) (4:05)Ġ3. Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez (10:32)Ĭapriol (Suite for Guitar and String Orchestra):Ġ1. El Noi de la mare from Suite Catalan (2:11)Ģ1. Variations of a theme by Mozart (6:17)Ģ0. What God Hath Done Is Rightly Done (Cantata No. We Thank Thee, Lord, We Thank Thee (4:05)Ġ8. Young/Ravenscroft/Sutherland/Gordon YoungĠ6. Praise Ye The Lord - Laudate Dominum (from Solemn Vespers K339) (3:42) Mozart/Ravenscroft/Wolfgang Amadeus MozartĠ3. Ravenscroft/Colin Cooper/Foster/A.L Butler/Traditional/Charles Butler Cantata 208 (Sheep May Safely Graze Tran. Allegro from Prelude, Fugue & Allegro (3:03)ġ4. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring From Cantata (3:06)ġ0.
22, BWV 22: Sanctify Us by Thy Goodness (3:05)Ġ1. Hymn of Christian Joy: Prelude in The Classic Style (2:35)ġ4. Aided by the activities of concert societies and the musical press, Segovia’s guitar prowess inspired a variety of creative movements including many French composers, among whom Breville, Migot, Tansman and later on Poulenc and Sauguet. With a nod and a wink to Iberia’s second movement, Debussy’s Les Parfums la nuit, the title of this record, alludes to the shiver of the soul, beyond all morality and reason, that music produces.1. From his very first concerts in Paris in the spring of 1924, Segovia achieved a dazzling success.
With the firm intention of stimulating the creation of a repertoire that would do the guitar justice, Segovia encouraged and assisted composers to write for him. By virtue of the quality of his interpretations of a repertoire that evoked the noble and exotic past of the guitar, Segovia quickly allowed the guitar to gain international credibility and notoriety. Inspired by Falla and Debussy, they dedicated their works to the man who would soon become known as the father of the classical guitar: Andrés Segovia. A vast repertoire for guitar began to appear penned by composers who did not play the instrument. At the beginning of the 20th century, the guitar was at the centre of a small musical revolution that was to change its destiny. For almost five centuries, the repertoire for classical guitar grew almost behind closed doors, with guitarists being the only composers for the instrument.