Recordings

According to official site of Gary Karr and Internet resources, this page divided to 6 directories:

 

Karr-Lewis Duo

Doublebass with Orchestra

Doublebass with Other territory Musicians

Solo, Narrator

Young Karr

Videos

Karr-Lewis Duo

 

The World of Gary Karr

Gary Karr Recital

Basso Cantante

Kol Nidrei

Apres un Reve

Adagio d'Albinoni

Berceuse

Ave Maria

Gary Karr plays Bach

Songs of Prayer

The Spirit of Koussevitzky

We wish you a Merry Christmas

Gary Karr's 50th Birthday Album

Basso Cantabile

Poetic Melodies in Japan

Gary Karr plays Japanese Songs

Spirituals &Foster Songs

Distinguished Friends of "Cello" Volume 1

Two Culture,One Heart Folk songs of Taiwan

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Doublebass with Orchestra

 

Le Cygne with L. Bernstein

Koussevitzky Concerto

Henze Collection

Paganini Moses Variations

Virtuose Kontrabasskonzerte Koussevitzky Dragonetti Paganini

The Doublebass Paganini

Contemparary music from Norway Ketil Hvoslef

Paul Ramsier Divertimento concertante on a theme od Couperin

Dvorak Cello Concerto

Schifrin Concerto pour contrabassse

John Downey Concerto

Amadeus CO/Rachmaninov Bottesini Grand Duo Concertante

Virtuoso Works for Doublebass Grieg Josephs Sankey

Max Stern Biblical Compositions

 

Doublebass with other territory artists

 

Jennie Tourel Live at Alice Tully Hall

A tribute to Jennie Tourel

Dvorak Doublebass Quintet

Ricci & Collegues in Concert

Music for Violoncello & Doublebass

The Rainforest Foundation Carnival!

 

Solo, Narrator

 

Bach Suites

Anne Lauber Beyond the Sound Barrier(Narrator)

P.Ramsier The Road to Hamelin (Bass & Narrator)

 

Young Karr

 

New York Debut Le Cygne with L. Bernstein

Jennie Tourel Live at Alice Tully Hall

Gary Karr plays Double Bass

 

Videos

 

BASSically Karr

Karr Tunes

 

 

Introduction

Karr-Lewis Duo

 

THE WORLD OF GARY KARR

King Records

KICC8531

:Gary Karr DB /Harmon Lewis Piano Organ

Amati Productions: Yes

Collection

Albinoni: Adagio in G Minor(arr. Giazotto)

J.S.Bach:Ave Maria(arr. Gounod)

J S Bach: Jesu, Joy of man's desiring

J.S. Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No.3

Faure: Apres un reve

Rachmaninov: Vocalise, Op.34,No14

Saint-Saens: La cygne

Arcadelt: Ave Maria

Schubert: Ave Maria

J.S.Bach: Menuett from Notebuch der Anna Magdalena Bach

J.S.Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die stimme

Negro Spiritual: Deep river

Godard: Berceuse aus der Oper "Jocelyn"

Taki: KOJO NO TSUKI

Catalonian carol:El canto dels ocells

Gary Karr Recital

King Records

KICC 78

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Harpsichord

Amati Productions Yes

1980/05/07

Handel Sonata in C Major

Eccles Sonata in a minor

Couperin Pieces en Concert

Telemann Sonata in D Major

Basso Cantante

King Records

KICC 47

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Piano

Amati Productions Yes

1980/05/28-29

Schubert Arppeggione Sonata

Rachmaninov Vocalise

Saint-Saens La Cygne

Joplin The Entertainer

Taki Kojo no tsuki

When I wake up in the morning

Three Catalonian Carols

El noi de la mare/Fum, Fum, Fum/El cant dels ocells

Kol Nidrei

King Records

K33Y 138

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Organ

Amati Productions Yes

1980/06/06

Bruch Kol Nidrei op.47

Bloch Prayer from "Sketch from Jewish Life"

Koussevitzky Chanson Triste op.2

A.Wilder Small suite for doublebass and piano

Romantically

Quasi Jazz

D.v Goens Scherzo op.12 No.2

Gossec Gavotte

T.Narita Hamabe no uta

J.S.Bach Largo from Concerto for Cembalo No.5 in f minor BWV1056 mov.2

Negro Spiritual Deep River

Apres un Reve

King Records

K33Y 238

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Piano

Amati Production Yes

1981/09/20-21

Faure Apres un Reve

Lorenziti Gavotte

Granados Madrigal in a minor

Gluck Melodie

Gershwin Summertime

Wagner O Du Mein Holder Abenstern from "Tannhaeuser"

Green Playful Rondo

Hindemith Sonata for Doublebass

Adagio d'Albinoni

King Records

KICC 41

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Organ

Amati Productions Yes

1982/09/22

Albinoni Adagio in g minor(arr.Giazotto)

Beethoven Sonatine

Frank pieces 5

Handel Sonata No.9 in b minor

J.S.Bach Ave Maria(arr.Gounod)

Berceuse

King Records

KICC 44

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Piano

Amati Productions Yes

1983/06/21-23

Godard Berceuse aus der Oper "Jocelyn"

Londonderry Air

Simonetti Madrigale

Geissel Granny's Dream

Ravel Piece en forme de Habanera

Rimsky-Korsakov/Kreisler Song of India

Granados Spanish Dance No.2

Scott Joplin Rags

Elite Syncopations

Bethena A concert waltz

Granados Intermezzo

Tchaikovsky none but the weary heart

Ave Maria

King Records

KICC 163

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Piano Organ

Amati Productions Yes

 

Schubert: Ave Maria

J.S.Bach:Ave Maria(arr. Gounod)

Arcadelt: Ave Maria

Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus, K.618

Gary Karr plays Bach

King Records

K33Y 165

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Organ

Amati Productions Yes

1985/06/09-10

J.S.Bach

Komm Suesser Tod BWV478(arr.Karr)

Prelude and Gallantries(arr Paul Ramsier)

Prelude

Sarabande

Gavotte

Jesu, Joy of man's desiring BWV147(arr Karr)

Air from Orchestral Suite No.3 in D Major BWV1068(arr.Karr)

Songs of Prayer

King Records

KICC 43

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Organ

Amati Productions Yes

1985/06/10-11

Eili, Eili(Invocation) Traditional Yiddish melody of Russia and Poland after the notation of Shalitt by Kurt Schindler

A.C.Adam O Holy Noght

J. Arcadelt Ave Maria

Bizet Agnus Dei

Harline When you wish upon a star

Schubert Ave Maria

Hovhaness Prayer of saint Gregory

Negro Spiritual Nobody knows de trouble I've seen

Negro Spiritual Swing low, sweet chariot!

Mozart Ave, rerum corpus k.618

(arr.Karr)

The Spirit of Koussevitzky

VQR Digital

VQR 2031

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Piano

Amati Productions Yes

1988/11/28-30

Rachmaninov Vocalise op.34 No.14

Serge Koussevitzky 4 pieces

Valse Miniature op.1 No.2

Chanson Triste op.2

Humoresque op.4

Andante op.1 No.1

Scriabin 6 Early Pieces

Prelude op.9 No.1

Etude op.42 No.4

Etude op.2 No.1

Prelude op.22 No.1

Prelude op.16 No.4

Albumleaf op.45 No.1

Gliere 4 pieces

Prelude op.32 No.1

Scherzo op.32 No.2

Intermezzo op.9 No.1

Tarantella op.9 No.2

 

We wish you a Merry Christmas

VQR Digital

VQR 2036

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Organ

Amati Productions Yes

1988/11/28-30

God Rest You Merry, Gentleman*

The First Nowell*

Silent Night*

O Holy Night*

Deck the Halls*

Never a Child is He/James Niblock

I saw three ships*

The son of Mary, Catalonian Carol*

Song of the Birds, Catalonian Carol/arr.Casals

O Little Town of Bethlehem*

Vom Himmel Hoch/Sigfrid Karg-Elert

Hark the Herald Angels sing*

Greensleeves to a Ground*

Jingle Bells*

Il est ne, le divin Enfant*

Ave Maria/Schubert

Joseph est bien marie/Jean Francois Dandrieu

It came Upon a Midnight Clear*

Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming*

Good King Wenceslas*

All the * arr by Karr and Lewis

 

Gary Karr's 50th Birthday Album

Amati Production

Unknown/Tape

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Piano

Not available now

1991

Bottesini Reverie

Bottesini Tarantella

E.Grieg Sonata in a minor op.36

Hoffmeister Concertino No.2

Stanle Myers Cavatina(arr. Byron Yasui)

Gershwin Prelude No.2

Slap the Bass

Basso Cantabile Gary Karr plays Operatic Arias

King Records

KICC 40

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Piano

Amati Productions Yes

1991/12/6-7

Puccini Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore-from "Tosca"

Bellini Casta Diva-from "Norma"

Verdi Pace, pace, mio Dio-from "La forza del destino"

Puccini O mio babino caro-from "Gianni Schicchi"

Mozart Dove sono i bei momenti-from "Le nozze di figaro"

Saint-saens Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix-from "Samson et Dalila"

Flotow Die letze rose-from "Martha"

Bizet Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante-from "Carmen"

Handel Ombra mai fu (Largo)-from "Serse"

Donizetti Una furtiva lagrima-from "L'elisir d'amore"

Bizet Romance:Je crois entendre encore-from "Les pecheurs de perles"

Puccini Nessum dorma!-from "Turandot"

Puccini E lucevan le stelle-from "Tosca"

Verdi Dormiro sol nel manto mio regal-from "Don Carlo"

Bellini/Bottesini "Fantasie Sonnambula"

Mozart In diesen heil'gen Hallen-from "Die Zauberfloete",k.620

All arr.by Karrexcept Fantasie Sonnambula

Poetic Melodies in Japan

TOSHIBA EMI

TOCZ-9152

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Piano/Yoshiro Hiratsuka Koto

Not Available in Amati Productions

Prologue-Garden of SUIKINKUTSU I

YOIMACHIGUSA

CHUGOKU CHIHO NO KOMORIUTA

FURUSATO

HAMACHIDORI

JOGASHIMA NO AME

KONO MICHI

MACHIBOKE

HAKONE HACHIRI

SAKURA

Epilogue-Garden of SUIKINKUTSU II

Gary Karr Plays Japanese Songs

King Records

KICC 161

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Piano Organ

Amati Productions Yes

1994/12/11-12

HANA(Bloom)

KOJO NO TSUKI(Moon over the ruined castle)

HAKONE HACHIRI(Long and stern mountain path of Hakone)

AOBA NO FUE(A flute of green leaf)

OBOROZUKIYO(A night with hazy moon)

JOGASHIMA NO AME(Raining Joga-shima Island)

MACHIBOKE(Waiting in vain)

CHUGOKU-CHIHO NO KOMORIUTA(Lullaby of Chugoku region)

SAKURA SAKURA(Cherry blossoms)

AKATOMBO(A red dragonfly)

SUNAYAMA(Dune)

KONO MICHI(The path)

YOIMACHIGUSA(An evening primrose)

TSUKI NO SABAKU(A dessert under the moon)

HAMABE NO UTA(Song for strand)

BIWAKO SHUKO NO UTA(Sailing through the Biwako Lake)

HABU NO MINATO(The hourbour of Habu)

DEFUNE(Sail from a boat)

YASHI NO MI(A coconut)

NARA-YAMA(Nara, the ancient city)

YAMADERA NO OSHOSAN(Bonze at a mountain temple)

ITSUKI NO KOMORIUTA(Lullaby of Itsuki)

NATSU NO OMOIDE(Remembrance of last summer)

Arr by Karr

Spirituals and Foster Songs

King Records

KICC 200

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Piano Organ

Amati Productions Yes

1996/3/14-15

Foster

My old Kentucky Home,Good Night

Oh!Susanna

Camptown Races

Beautiful Dreamer

Spirituals

Joshua fit the battle O'Jerico

Steal away to Jesus

Deep River

Were you there

De ol'ark's a-moverin'

Foster

Jeanie with the light brown hair

Old Black Joe

Gentle Annie

Old Dog Tray

Old Folks at Home

Spirituals

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Nobody knows de trouble I've seen

Standin' in the need of prayer

Amazing Grace

All arr. by Karr

Distinguished Friends of Cello Volume 1

Cello Acoustic Recordings

CAR 007

Gary Karr, Harmon Lewis, Tseng Keng-Yuen,

Guital Gabriel, Big Boy Henry,Gary Peacock,

Music Maker Trio, Bill Elgart,Mark Levinson Tim Duffy,Michael Parrish

Not available in Amati Productions now

The Home-Made record start

All made by Cello's special 2-microphone recording system

Tseng Keng-Yuen violin J.S.Bach Partita No.2 Chaconne

Schumann Abendlied

2 Excepts from "Gone for Baroque" Project

Guitar Gabriel,blue guitar and Vocal, accompanied by Michael Parrish,Piano;

Tim Duffy,Guitar; Mark Levinson doublebass

Trouble in mind

Shine on me

Big Boy Henry, blue vocal,with Michael Parrish and Tim Duffy,guitars

Old Bill

Music Maker Trio Tim Duffy and Michael Parrish, guitars;Mark Levinson doublebass

Careless Love

Gary Peacock, doublebass solo

Embraceable You

Bill Elgart drum solo

Stones Bones

All the artists represented on this CD wish to express their feelings that Cello is advancing the quality of recording and playback equipment to a truly new level of realism. Through Cello's technology, musicians are able to communicate their message to the listener with far greater purity and emotional impact.

(P.S. I believe I really feel the bass since this special CD made in Karr's home in Canada.)

Two Cultures, One Hart Folk songs of Taiwan

Maysun Records

MS4711-2

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Piano

Amati Productions Yes

The Dewdrops of Spring

Torn Fishing Net

Flowers in the Rainy Night

Autumn Words

Lonely Flower

Sorrow in the Moon Night

Adolescent Longing

Yesterday's Love

Heart Broken

Springtime Hills

Farewell in the Evening

Falling out of Love

A melody of Hong-Chun

Seasons' Song

This is my personal favorite CD, the booklet is not very well. But the Music is great! Highly Recommend it!

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Amati Productions

Edition Limited to

Gary Karr DB/Harmon Lewis Piano/Karin Kieltsch Illustrations/arr by Jerry Nahmius

11 prints, CD and LP

1000 Copies

Promenade

Gnomus(The Gnome)

Promenade

Il vecchio castello(The Old Castle)

Promenade

Tuileries:Children quarreling at play

Bydlo(The Oxcart)

Promenade

Ballet of the Chicks in their Shells

Two Jews, One Rich and the other Poor(Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle)

Promenade

Limoges, the Market Place

Catacombs(Sepulchrum romanum)

Con mortuis in lingua mortua

The Hut on Hen's Legs(Baba-Yaga)

The Great Gate of Kiev

 

 

Doublebass with Orchestra

 

Le Cygne with L. Bernstein (Debut)

 

 

Gary Karr/Leonard Bernstein/New York P.O.

Not available in Amati Pro.

1962

Camille Saint-Saens Le Cygne (The Swan) The Legend Debut

Koussevitzky Concerto

CRI

SD-248(LP)

Gary Karr/Alfredo Antonini/Oslo P.O.

Not available in Amati Pro.

?

Koussevitzky Concerto for Doublebass

Henze Collection

DG

DG 449865-2

Gary Karr/H.W.Henze/English Chamber Orchestra

Not available in Amati Pro.

 

H.W.Henze Concerto for Doublebass

Paganini Moses Variations

Delta Music Nihon Columbia

COCO-78036

Gary Karr/Geoffrey Simon/London S.O.

Not Available in Amati Pro.

 

Paganini Introduction and Variations on a theme by Rossini

Virtuose Kontrabasskonzerte

Koch

Schwann

CD 311 044

Gary Karr/Uros Lajovic/Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Not available in Amati Pro.

1979/11

Serge Koussevitzky Doublebass Concerto op.3(Orch part:W. Meyer-Tormin, Verlag Rob.Forberg/Jurgenson)

Dragonetti Doublebass Concerto(Orch part:G.Schuller Music Publishers NY)

Paganini Fantasia on Moses(arr.Karr)

The Doublebass Paganini

Koch

Schwann

3-1338-2

Collection/same as last CD

Not available in Amati Pro

1979/11

Paganini Fantasia on Moses(arr.Karr)

Contemporary music from Norway Ketil Hvoslef

Philips

Aurora

6529041(LP)

NCD-B 4949

Gary Karr/Karsten Andersen/London P.O.

LP Available in Amati Pro

?1981

K.Hvoslef:Concerto for Contrabasso

Divertimento Concertante on a theme of Couperin

The Louisville Orchestra 1st Edition Records

Albany

LS 785(LP)

Troy 237

Gary Karr/Robert Bernhardt/Louisville Orchestra

Amati Pro Yes(LP)

1983/01/10

Paul Ramsier Divertimento Concertante on a Theme of Couperin

Theme

Barcarolle

March

Dirge

Recitative

Valse Cinematique

Taccata Barroca

(CD)Paul Ramsier, Compositions for Virtuoso Double Bass

:Gary Karr(Cb, Narrator)--(1)(2)

:The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Bernhardt(Cd)

:Mark Alison Morton (Cb), Christopher Finkelmeyer(Pf)--(3)(4)

(1) P.Ramsier: Divertiment Concertante on a Theme of Couperin

(2) P.Ramsier: Road to Hamelin

(3) P.Ramsier: Silent Movie

(4) P.Ramsier: Eusevius Revisited (Remembrance of Schumann)

Dvorak Cello Concerto

King Records

K33Y 239

Gary Karr/Takashi Asahina/Osaka P.O.

Amati Pro Yes

1983/06/20(Live)

Dvorak Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in b minor op.104

Schifrin Concerto for Doublebass

Cybelia

CY 1106

Gary Karr/Lalo Schifrin/Orchestre Philharmonique de Paris

Amati Pro Yes

?

Schifrin Concerto for Doublebass and Orchestra

John Downey Doublebass concerto

GALA

CACD 1003

Gary Karr/Geoffrey Simon/London S.O.

Amati Pro Yes

?1992

John Downey Concerto for Doublebass and Orchestra

Amadeus C.O./Rachmaninov Vocalise/Bottesini Grand Duo Concertante

AmadeusMusical Foundation Poland

AMF ST 103

Gary Karr/Jaroslaw Zolnierczyk/Agnieszka Duczmal

Amati Pro Yes

1992/05/19(Live)

Rachmaninov Vocalise

Giovanni Bottesini Grand Duo Concertante

Virtuoso Works for Doublebass

ABC Classics

8.770018

Gary Karr/Patrick Thomas/Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

Amati Pro Yes

1992/11/23-27

E. Grieg Concerto for Doublebass and Orchestra in a minor

(transc. Gary Karr, orch. Joseph Horovitz)

Wilfred Josephs Concerto for Doublebass and Orchestra op.118

Stuart Sankey Carmen Fantasy after Bizet

Max Stern Biblical Compositions

ACUM

MS1

Gary Karr/Arthur Fagen/Jerusalem S.O.,IBA

Amati Pro Yes

?1993

HAAZINU Cantata for Doublebass and Orchestra(1989) bassed on "The Song of Moses" (Deuteronomy 32)

 

 

 

Doublebass with other territory artists

Jennie Tourel Live at Alice Tully Hall

VOXBOX

CDX 5126

Gary Karr/Jennie Tourel(Mezzo Sop)/James Levine(Piano)

This is a illegal edition

PS: please check the article in Straight from the heart (Gary Karr's favorite CDs)

Glinka Doubt

Glinka Vain Temptation

Tchaikovsky None but the Lonely Heart

Dargomijsky Romance

Massenet Elegy

A tribute to Jennie Tourel

Columbia Odyssey

Y2 32880

Gary Karr/?

Not Available in Amati Pro

?

?

Dvorak Doublebass Quintet

Arabesque Recordings

Z 6558

Portland String Quartet/Gary Karr(DB)

Amati Pro Yes

1986/01/20-22

Dvorak Doublebass Quintet

Dvorak Quartet "American" op.96

Ricci in Concert with Colleagues

111

URS 92010

Elyakim Taussig/Ruggiero Ricci/Eberhard Klemmstein/Mihaly Virizly/Gary Karr

Amati Pro Yes

1992

Schubert Trout Quintet for piano and strings in A major op.114 D.667

Music for Violoncello and Doublebass

Amati Productions

sample

Gary Karr/Barbara Thiem

Amati Pro Yes

?

Rossini Duet for Cello and Doublebass

Jean Barriere Sonata a deux pour violoncello et contrebasse

Dragonetti Duo for Cello and Doublebass

Handel Sonata in g minor op.2 No.8

The Rainforest Foundation Carnival!

BMG/RCA Victor

74321 44769 2

collection

Amati Pro No

?

A specially recorded tracks from leading Classical Pop and World music artists

Camille Saint-Saens Carnival of the animals etc.

 

Solo,Narrator

 

NEW! Bach SoloSuite No.1-3

Amati Pro

 

Gary Karr

Amati Pro Yes

1998

Recorded in Karr's home in Victoria B.C. 1998

Anne Lauber Beyond the Sound Barrier

Societe Nouvelle D'Enregistrement

SNE-568-CD

Orchestre des Jeunes du Quebec/Michel Tabachnik/Narration Gary Karr

Amati Pro Yes

?1989

Anne Lauber Beyond the Sound Barrier etc.

Paul Ramsier The Road to Hamelin

The Louisville Orchestra

LS 785

Robert Bernhardt/Louisville Orchestra/Gary Karr Doublebass and Narrator

Amati Pro Yes

1986

Paul Ramsier The Road to Hamelin

 

Young Karr

 

Le Cygne with L. Bernstein (Debut)

 

 

Gary Karr/Leonard Bernstein/New York P.O.

Not in Amati Pro

1962

Camille Saint-Saens Le Cygne (The Swan) The Legend Debut

Jennie Tourel Live at Alice Tully Hall

VOXBOX

CDX 5126

Gary Karr/Jennie Tourel/James Levine

This is a illegal Edition

Please check the article in Straight from the heart(Gary Karr's favorite CDs)

Glinka Doubt

Glinka Vain Temptation

Tchaikovsky None But the Lonely Heart

Dargomijsky Romance

Massenet Elegy

Gary Karr plays Double Bass

Golden Crest Recital

RE 7012[LP]

Gary Karr/Jeffrey Siegel(Piano)

Not in Amati Pro

?

Henry Eccles:Sonata

Londonderry Air

Koussevitzky:Valse Miniature

Ernest Bloch:Player

Lovenztti:Gavotte

Maurice Ravel: Piece en forme de Habanera

Rossini-Paganini:Fantasy "Moses in Egypt"

 

Videos

BASSically Karr

VHS Time:2:20 Educational Video(Amati Production)

Featuring an interview with Gary Karr as well as several playing examples. This is a User-friendly instructional video which may appeal not only to doublebassists but also to other string players. Karr presents all sorts of general topics including:

How to Practice

How to use a Metronome

Good posture and physical exercises

Bowing speed

And more in this video.To punctuate his points,Karr performs many picecs with Harmon Lewis. With the assistance of Marvin Rabin, this video seems like a private lesson with Gary Karr designed especially for the viewer.

Karr Tunes

VHS 30 minutes Children's Concert

During the early '70s, Karr performed for children in every classroom of 62 schools in Halifax, Nova Scotia,Canada. 25 years later Karr proves in this delightful video that he hasn't lost his touch. Because this presentation is meant for a general audience of children Karr says,"Just like Halifax, I would love it if this video were shown in every classroom of every school in the English-speaking world".

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