Alfredo Campoli

7PD10 Ultimate Campoli

Alfredo Campoli plays

• Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor [Listen]
  
  
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  Bruch Scottish Fantasy [Listen]
  

London Philhramonic Orchestra conductor Sir Adrian Boult

• Saint Saens Havanaise [Listen]
  
• Saint Saens Introduction and rondo capriccioso [Listen]

London Symphony Orchestra conductor Anatole Fistoulari

In March 1953 Decca's chief engineer Arthur Haddy engaged Roy Wallace who had worked for ten years on binaural sound for Lawrence Savage ( a pioneer of binaural recording). Wallace developed a technique using three microphone, left, centre and right, mounted in a triangle on a Dexion frame. Roy Wallace recalled that it was a crude attempt to recreate the artificial head that he spent about a year making. When Arthur Haddy first saw the array, he remarked: "It looks like a bloody Christmas Tree!" Ever since the array has been known as a "tree". Since Wallace used three microphones but only two recording channels he adapted Decca's six channel mono mixer to two sets of three. In an effort to keep the work on binaural recording secret early recordings were made in continental Europe. Decca's tape library filed binaural tapes in a new BN (for binaural) series. We have therefore described these recordings as binaural rather than stereo.

"The Mendelssohn Concerto gets a fine reading, Campoli's tuning spot-on as always, the Bruch masterly and imposing." Peter Joelson at Audiophile Audition

"From the moment the violin enters Campoli plays with ardent bel canto tone...it is wonderful to hear even the trickiest passagework communicated with such clarity and with a sense of space and time...the sound throughout is full and clear, though slightly over reverberant at times"." Donald Ellman Classical Record Collector Spring 2010

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