Alfredo Campoli performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto over 900 times during his career as a soloist. On this disc we release his 1949 recording with the London Philharmonic conducted by Eduard van Beinum. It is coupled with his 1954 recording of the Elgar Violin Concerto under the baton of Sir Adrian Boult.
Rob Cowan in Gramophone for February 2006 writes:
The reappearance of the Beulah label brings with it a number of old friends, none more welcome than Alfredo Campoli's consistently sympathetic 1954 account of Elgar's Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic under Sir Adrian Boult. You might say that Campoli's urbane and warmly felt account is the nearest thing we have to a Kreisler Elgar Concerto. The coupling is equally valuable: Campoli, the LPO and Eduard van Beinum in the Mendelssohn Concerto, a nicely transferred 1949 recording impressive as much for van Beinum's incisive conducting as for the smiling demeanor of Campoli's interpretation.
Jonathan Woolf at Music Web International writes that Campoli has withstood the ravages of time, technological advance and successive critical judgments with lasting assurance. Read his full review.
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