Nice, but the guy who can really play it is HERE.

I've actually heard him play it better than in this video, however. He tends to get a bit heavy-handed here.

Then—I listened to Rick Foster (olddude's post) and remembered that Parkening says that Foster is who he got the arrangement from!!

I've heard Parkening do it live in concert, I have his all Bach CD, and I bought a folio of Bach pieces that he plays. Absolute killers to play, but he makes them sound like a walk through the park.

I tried the arrangement of Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (Foster's) in the folio and found out what "difficult" really means!

But Parkening has an easier arrangement in his manual, The Christopher Parkening Guitar Method - Volume 1: The Art and Technique of the Classical Guitar Book/CD Pack. It's a whole lot easier than the one in the Bach folio, but it still sounds darned good. Even though it's a supplementary piece in a "beginner's" manual, it still takes a bit of work to wrap your fingers around it.

Well worth it, though!

Don Firth