Alfredo Campoli: The Bel Canto Violin | Vol. 3

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. Nonetheless, Campoli retained a popular touch, and an innate feeling for light-hearted music, which lends both grace and distinction to this anthology of encores, miniatures and trifles. The second disc reproduces an album conceived and released by Decca in February 1955 as an 80th-anniversary tribute from Campoli to the man who was in many ways his artistic forefather, Fritz Kreisler. Both violinists were equally at home in the café as the concert hall; both could charm the birds from the trees with the brilliance of their technique but also the natural, beguiling warmth of their expression which seemed to reflect a special generosity of spirit. It is no coincidence that Campoli became so sympathetic interpreter of the Violin Concerto which Elgar haddedicated to Kreisler. The Kreisler album is complemented here by a first international CD release on Decca for three 10” LPs. Three Paganini showpieces and three Dohnányiworks arranged by Kreisler were recorded in April 1953 and released in the autumn; in December of that year, Campoli went on to make an acclaimed debut at Carnegie Hall. Two medium-play discs of encores were then record

Tracks

1~1~Dohnányithree Pieces From ‘Ruraliahungarica’
1~2~Paganinicaprice No. 13
1~3~Paganinicaprice No. 20
1~4~Paganini La Campanella, Op. 7
1~5~Fibichpoème, Op. 41 No. 14
1~6~Ponceestrellita
1~7~Drdlasouvenir
1~8~Fioccoallegro
1~9~François Schubertl’Abeille
1~10~Albéniztango
1~11~Heubergermidnight Bells
1~12~Mendelssohnauf Flügelndes Gesanges
1~13~Drigovalse Bluette
1~14~Elgarla Capricieuse
1~15~Gardnerfrom The Canebrake
1~16~Anonymousdeep River (Negro Spiritual)
1~17~Debussyminstrels
1~18~Fosterold Folks At Home
2~1~Kreislerpraeludium And Allegro
2~2~Kreislerliebesleid
2~3~Kreislerliebesfreud
2~4~Kreislerpolichinelle(Sérénade)
2~5~Kreislerschön Rosmarin
2~6~Kreislercaprice Viennois, Op. 2
2~7~Kreislertambourin Chinois
2~8~Paderewskimenuetcélèbre
2~9~Wieniawskicaprice In E Flat Major
2~10~Wieniawskicaprice In A Minor
2~11~Kreislerrondinoon A Theme By Beethoven
2~12~Kreislerla Chasse
2~13~Kreislerla Gitana
2~14~Granadosspanish Dance, Op. 37 No. 5 ‘Andaluza’
2~15~Tartinivariations On A Theme Of Corelli

Details

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