Howard
and Frances Karp, Pianists
Concert
Performances from a Half-Century of Music-Making
Howard and Frances Karp
BOXED
4-COMPACT DISK SET
"Look where you will in the
international record cataloges. You simply will not find a better
anthology of music for two pianists—both one piano four-hands
and two pianos—than this four-CD release. . . . You won't
find a longer-lived partnership or a better melding of heart,
mind, and fingers."—Jacob
Stockinger, Capitol Times
This four-CD
set features compositions for two pianos, or for piano four-hands,
performed by Howard and Frances Karp between 1963 and 1996. The
compositions are by Mozart, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schubert,
Dvorák, Reger, Rachmaninoff, and Stravinsky. Program notes
are by Howard Karp, and each of the four discs offers more than
seventy minutes of music. Noted cellist Parry Karp, of the Pro
Arte Quartet, produced the album as a tribute to his parents.
Howard and
Frances Karp met in the spring of 1948 at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music,
went on together to the Juilliard School of Music, and have been
musical and life partners ever since. They have each performed
as soloists with symphony orchestras in the United States and
Europe and frequently appear in solo recitals or together in
chamber music concerts. Howard Karp is professor of music
emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has
taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Kentucky. Frances Reiche Karp has taught piano and coached opera
in addition to her performance career.
Follow this
link to a related CD: The Art of Howard Karp
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for the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Music
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November 2000
6 x 9
CD ISBN 978-0-9658834-8-1
No longer distributed by UW Press. Recordings available from the School of Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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