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Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series

Parry Karp, violoncello
Eli Kalman, piano
Katrin Talbot, poet

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Program 

Sonata for Viola and Piano (1919)       Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Transcribed for Cello and Piano by Parry Karp     

Fantasie: Ruhig
Thema mit Variationen: Ruhig und einfach, wie ein Volkslied
Finale (mit Variationen)
(All played without pause)

Sonata for Cello and Piano (1919)       Henriette Bosmans (1895-1952)
Allegro maestoso
Un poco allegretto
Adagio
Allegro molto e con fuoco

Intermission

Three Romances for Piano and Violin, Op. 22 (1853)        Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Transcribed for Cello and Piano by Parry Karp 

Andante molto
Allegretto. Mit zartem Vortrage
Leidenschaftlich schnell

Les chants de l’Agartha for Cello and Piano (2008)       Guillaume Connesson (b. 1970)
1. Sous le desert de Mongolie
2. La bibliotheque des Savoirs perdus
3. Danse devant le Roi du Monde

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Cellist Parry Karp is Artist-in Residence, and the Robert and Linda Graebner Professor of Chamber Music and Cello, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is director of the string chamber music program. He has been cellist of the Pro Arte Quartet for the past 45 years, the longest tenure of any member in the quartet’s over 100-year history.

Parry Karp is an active solo artist, performing numerous recitals annually in the United States with pianists Howard and Frances Karp, and Eli Kalman. Mr. Karp has played concerti throughout the United States and gave the first performance in Romania of Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo with the National Radio Orchestra in Bucharest in 2002.

He is active as a performer of new music and has performed in the premieres of dozens of works, many of which were written for him, including concerti, sonatas and chamber music. As a solo recording artist, he has recorded the solo cello works of Ernest Bloch, and works of Frank Bridge, Rebecca Clarke, Ernest Chausson, Edward Collins, Georges Enesco, John Ireland, Alberic Magnard, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Miklos Rosza, and Richard Strauss. Unearthing and performing unjustly neglected repertoire for cello is a passion of Mr. Karp’s. In recent years he has transcribed for cello many masterpieces written for other instruments. This project has included performances of all of the Duo Sonatas of Brahms, as well as compositions of Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, Hindemith, Strauss, Schumann, Stravinsky and Szymanowski.