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4PD10 The Art of Campoli
Alfredo Campoli performed the Mendelssohn Violin
Concerto [listen]
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
[listen].
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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