Alfredo Campoli: The Bel Canto Violin - Volume 3 - Eloquence: ELQ4825159 - 2 CDs

Treasurable performances, brimming with personality, tonally immaculate and powered by a sensitivity to emotional narrative to have the listeners hanging onto Alfredo Campoli’s every phrase. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 5 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 26th Jan 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4825159
Label: Eloquence
Series: The Art of Alfredo Campoli
Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

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Dohnányi: 5 Pieces from "Ruralia Hungarica", Op.32a - Arr. Kreisler

Work length11:06

Alfredo Campoli (violin), George Malcolm (piano)
Recorded: 1953-04
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Presto

Track length3:25

Andante rubato alla zingaresca

Track length5:36

Molto vivace

Track length2:05

Paganini: 24 Caprices for Violin, Op.1 - Arr. F. Kreisler

Work length6:05

Alfredo Campoli (violin), George Malcolm (piano)
Recorded: 1953-08-09
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Caprice No. 13

Track length3:15

Caprice No. 20

Track length2:50

Paganini: La Campanella, Op.7

Work length5:30

Alfredo Campoli (violin), George Malcolm (piano)
Recorded: 1953-08-09
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Fibich: Poem, Op41:14

Work length2:20

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Ponce, M: Estrellita

Work length3:33

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Frantisek Drdla: Souvenir, for violin and piano (1904)

Work length3:58

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Fiocco, J H: Pièces de clavecin Op.1 - Arr. Bent, O'Neill

Work length2:58

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Allegro

Track length2:58

Schubert: L'Abeille (from 12 Bagatelles, Op. 13)

Work length1:02

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Albéniz: Tango - Arr. Dushkin

Work length2:51

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Heuberger: Der Opernball. Overture - Arr. Fritz Kreisler

Work length3:04

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Midnight Bells

Track length3:04

Mendelssohn: Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op. 34 No. 2

Work length1:41

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1956-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Drigo: Valse Bluette - Arr. Leopold Auer

Work length2:21

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1956-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Elgar: La Capricieuse, Op. 17

Work length3:36

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Gardner, Samuel: From the Canebrake

Work length1:42

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1956-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

anon.: Deep River - Arr. Heifetz

Work length2:12

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1956-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Debussy: Préludes / Book 1, L.117 - Arr. for violin & piano Debussy

Work length2:11

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1956-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Minstrels

Track length2:11

Foster, S: Old Folks at home - Arr. Kreisler

Work length3:32

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1956-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro (in the style of Pugnani)

Work length5:20

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Kreisler: Liebesleid

Work length4:11

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Kreisler: Liebesfreud

Work length3:43

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Kreisler: Polichinelle, serenade

Work length1:46

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Kreisler: Schön Rosmarin

Work length2:04

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Kreisler: Caprice Viennois, Op. 2

Work length4:09

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Kreisler: Tambourin Chinois, Op. 3

Work length3:46

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Paderewski: Minuet in G major, Op. 14 No. 1

Work length3:33

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Wieniawski: Caprice in E Flat Major

Work length2:13

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Wieniawski: Étude-caprice, Op. 18 No. 4 in A minor

Work length1:25

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Kreisler: Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven

Work length2:49

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Kreisler: La Chasse (The Hunt) in the style of Jean-Baptiste Cartier

Work length1:54

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Kreisler: La Gitana

Work length3:32

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Granados: Danza española, Op. 37 No. 5 'Andaluza'

Work length4:19

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Tartini: Variations on a Theme of Corelli

Work length2:52

Alfredo Campoli (violin), Eric Gritton (piano)
Recorded: 1954-10-05
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

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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 80 th -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 had dedicated 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 Dohnányi works 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 recorded in December 1954 and January 1956, both with the violinist’s principal accompanist, Eric Gritton.

All the recordings in this series of ‘Alfredo Campoli: The Bel Canto Violin’ have been given new remasterings from original Decca sources. Invaluable context on both artist and repertoire is provided by new booklet essays from Campoli’s biographer David Tunley.

‘Mr Campoli’s playing of the Ruralia Hungarica and the Paganini is brilliant and sure, without the excesses that so often accompany display pieces. The violin tone is warm, with a very satisfying balance between piano and violin.’ High Fidelity, January-February 1954

‘Here is something wonderful and unique … Campoli has excelled himself … The result is a disc of rare beauty; one that should on no account be missed’ Gramophone, March 1955 (Kreisler) ‘Campoli could play this music in his sleep … He combines a knowledge of such pieces with a matured classical technique as does no other violinist I can think of, and […] he plays the music with sympathy and affection and immense skill. Eric Gritton accompanies with customary care, and the recording is very good indeed.’ Gramophone, November 1955 (Elgar, Drdla)

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May 2018

Treasurable performances, brimming with personality, tonally immaculate and powered by a sensitivity to emotional narrative to have the listeners hanging onto Alfredo Campoli’s every phrase.

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Alfredo Campoli: The Bel Canto Violin - Volume 3

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