Jon Kimura Parker - Recordings

Jackie, Jamie and Ian Parker collaborated on a splendid Mozart CD, available on Amazon.com:

http://tinyurl.com/yaw68n

If you would like to order the live recording of the FIRST SEASON of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival on CD, please email the webmaster Ingrid Verhamme at: iverham@yahoo.com for more info as this CD is out of print.

Orcas Island Festival First Season LIVE!

CD Tracks:

1. Schubert Quintet for Strings CMaj Op. 163 D.956
Allegro ma non troppo (15:15)
William Preucil, violin
Gwen Starker Preucil, violin
Aloysia Friedmann, viola
Desmond Hoebig, cello
Toby Saks, cello

2. Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise, Op.3 for cello and piano (8:22)
Desmond Hoebig, cello
Jon Kimura Parker, piano

3. Haydn: Trio for violin, cello and piano GMaj Op.73 No 2, III Finale: Rondo all'Ongarese: Presto (3:26)
Gwen Starker Preucil, violin
Desmond Hoebig, cello
Jon Kimura Parker, piano

4 - 7:
Brahms: Quartet for violin, viola, cello and piano in G minor, Op.25 (41:36)
Allegro (13:19)
Intermezzo:Allegro ma non troppo (8:56)
Andante con moto (9:56)
Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto (8:40)
William Preucil, violin
Aloysia Friedmann, viola
Toby Saks, cello
Jon Kimura Parker, piano

8: Hupfeld: As Time Goes By (3:06)
William Preucil, violin
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
This piece is introduced by Bill Preucil, in honor of the wedding of Jon Kimura Parker and Aloysia Friedmann. The ceremony took place the day after the finale of the First Season.

Parker records Barber! Telarc CD-80441 cover

Samuel Barber Piano Concerto, Op. 38: Yoel Levi, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, with Barber Violin Concerto, Op. 14, Robert McDuffie, violin, and Souvenirs, Op. 28

"Jon Kimura Parker's outstanding performance of the Barber Piano Concerto...a performance of the keenest intensity. Parker is not just commanding in the daunting bravura passages, he finds tender poetry in such reflective passages as the return of the second subject in the first movement and in his warm and velvety playing of the central Canzone."

- Gramophone July 1997

"Barber's Piano Concerto evokes late German Romanticism and Bartok. It unfolds in a bracing weave of austerity and sultry songfulness, intensity and vaporous mystery. Mr. Parker's eloquent playing strikes just the right tone, at once urgent and a bit distant."

- New York Times September 28 1997

"As a vehicle to showcase Parker's special abilities, one could hardly imagine a more perfect work - modern, unmistakably urban, and inflected with the rhythms of American popular music."

- The Calgary Herald September 12 1997

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Two Pianos Are Better Than One (P.D.Q. Bach): Concerto for Two Pianos vs. Orchestra, Jon Kimura Parker and Professor Peter Schickele, co-existing pianists; TELARC CD-80376
Amazon for RealAudio samples and fun review!

"The recording is one of Telarc's best. The two-piano concerto...is a pastiche that utilizes an amalgamation of at least two dozen themes...brilliant technique, exquisite tone...are in plentiful abundance here." -

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4th Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival - March 1997: Arizona Friends of Chamber Music - #97101 / October 28, 1997

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