Alfredo Campoli: The Bel Canto Violin | Vol. 5

One of the most significant violinists in gramophone history, Alfredo Campoli enjoyed tremendous success in the 1930s as a purveyor of light music, both in concerts with his own salon orchestra and on Decca. A series of six 2CD reissues from Eloquence focuses on the violinist’s postwar reinvention of himself as ‘Campoli’, the classical soloist. Edward Elgar dedicated his Violin Concerto to Fritz Kreisler, and Campoli was the outstanding inheritor of Kreisler’s mantle as a violinist of unchallenged technique and a popular touch that endeared him to audiences of all backgrounds. His October 1954 recording of the concerto is lent further distinction by the support of that supreme Elgarian, Sir Adrian Boult, who also accompanies him in a May 1958 account of the Scottish Fantasia of Max Bruch.

Tracks

1~1~Elgar: Violin Concerto In B Minor, Op. 61
1~2~Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46
1~3~Bliss: Concerto For Violin And Orchestra
1~4~Bliss: Theme And Cadenza For Violin

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Alfredo Campoli
Release Date: 12 January 2018
Genre: Classical Music
Label: ELOQUENCE / DECCA
Distributor: Universal Music