Something's worrying me now.

Not Campoli's age: http://www.divine-art.com/AS/campoli.htm

But when his various recordings were made.  The LP I have states clearly p1969 for both the Bruch and the Mendelssohn.  The Bruch is with the New World SO and Kitsch, whereas the Mendelssohn is with the LPO and Beinum.  But I can't find record of a 1969 Beinum and Campoli Mendelssohn.  Was this the 1955 recording FMJ mentions reissued, or even the 1949 one I can find records of?

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Feb06/Elgar_Campoli_4PD10.htm

Too confusing!

Tommo

george: your reply #29. I heard Campoli play the Bruch (so far my one and only live hearing of the work) on 2/5/74 in the Sheldonian, Oxford with the Academy of the BBC under Atherton, with a Rossini overture, Gordon Crosse Symphonies Op 11 and Beethoven Symph 1. (Long list of below-the -horizon names there!)

My diary records a very good account of the solo part but strange balances of brass against strings. Could of course have had something to do with the fact that my seat was nearly vertically above the orchestra This slightly sub-optimal feature of symhony orchestras in the Shedonoan did give me an absolutely glorious close-up of the horn parts in Don Juan under Del Mar at about the same time. And that latter concert was where I made the acquaintance of Tippett's 1st symph. My girlfriend - now my wife - and I were both in transports...

Unfortunately, after the concert I established that hers were those of agony rather than ecstasy, and neither of us have changed our views since!

George: we can't possibly be the same person because we disagree fundamentally about which concert contained which concerto! 

I have 2/11/73 recorded as Don Juan, Chopin conc 2 with Michael Roll, and Tippett. I think I was on my own for the Campoli/ Atherton one

My position in the Tippett IIRC was about 1/4 of the way round the semicircle of the top deck - from L to R, as you look at the 'flat end' of the hall with the big doors through which one waltzes in and out to collect one's degree. IIRC, assuming one had a degree to collect.... Watched my elder daughter do it (video only - we were snowbound in Cornwall at the time) some months ago. As for my own  show, I can only remember being the one who most seriously got my bow antiphase and widdershins 

I was at Balliol, originally a Chemistry exhibitioner in 1972 but switched to Eng Lang & Lit 1973, graduating in 76. I deduce you may have done something a little more musical? My performances were restricted - fortunately for those who actually LIKE music - to Balliol chapel choir (refounded 1973), plus a few college choirs that didn't have auditions, for particular 'big choral work' performances (Trinity and University come to mind, as do Faure Req + Walton Te deum (1972), Dream of Gerontius, Beet Choral Sympathy). Did we (or our spouses) breathe the same air there too??

George, other works with my version of the Bruch are in my original post - gordon Crosse was a possibly 'even more unique' experience! I think I must have this right because (a) I kept a notebook with my own personal mini-reviews of  concerts attended and this began in Jan 74. There are several different inks before 2/5/74 so I'm pretty sure these are 'contemporaneous notes' (in the language of my current paid employment!); (b) I recall that it was broadcast a few days later as a R3 Afternoon Concert and I listened out of curiosity to compare the experience with and without 'pictures'. So I had another opportunity to check the contents - there's an added pencil note about this in the book. I believe I also positively remember the piano in the Tippett concert.

Come to think of it, a BBC afternoon concert would then I think have been always a BBC orchestra. Atherton's was the 'Academy of the BBC' (aka BBC Training Orchestra??), Del Mar's was the NPO according to the little (big) ole red (green) book! Does that win the argument??

Just read that Daniel Hope has changed record labels from Warner To DG, on which his first release is to be the Mendelssohn vc ( NOT coupled with Bruch ) Just what the world needs ? DG only released their Nicola Benedetti version last summer.

Well, I did say I'd be back with my thoughts on the Julian Olevsky / Vienna State Opera Orchestra / Julius Rudel recording of the Mendelssohn and Bruch.

I cannot believe this is going for $32 on e-bay.  It's a mfp recording, which I seem to remember from somewhere was distributed at petrol stations.  The M is scrappy in places and out of tune in others. The Bruch just doesn't seem to say a lot.

Sorry

Tommo