Title : Tchaikovsky — Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 35
Alfredo Campoli (violin)
Ataulfo Argenta (cond)
London Symphony Orchestra
 
Cat No: LP43061
Label : DECCA
Format : 1LP, 180g Vinyl
Barcode : 8808678160611

● From the original analogue master tapes of Universal Music
● Audiophile analogue mastering by Rainer Maillard
● Cutting to lacquers at Emil Berliner Studios
● 180g audiophile virgin vinyl pressed by Pallas GmbH in Germany.
● Stereo Recordings (SXL2029 / DECCA)

Recorded at Kingsway Hall 27-28 Dec 1956
Producer: James Walker
Engineer: Kenneth Wilkinson,Gordon Parry

This is an outstandingly good record. Campoli brings to the Tchaikovsky a quite ravishing sweetness; and he brings to also, of course, a fabulous technique... In its comnbination of sweetness and display this is an entirely convincing reading; and Campoli is by no means alone in the skill he brings to bear on the music. For Argenta persuades the L.S.O. into being simultaneously a sympathetic accompanist and a dashing exponent of the tuttis; and Decca, too, have turned on one of their best recording, with a satisfying balance between soloist and orchestra, and brilliance and richness of tone to spare. Campoli allows himself that touch of lingering here, of Viennese Liebesleid there, which, allied with an easiergoing movement, make for a very different reading from Heifetz.
- The Gramophone magazine