03 August 2011

Arthur Bliss conducts... Bliss - Violin Concerto / Alfredo Campoli ~ Colour Symphony ~ Things to Come, etc - Decca 1955/1957


Violin Concerto    I: Allegro ma non troppo  ~  II: Scherzo (vivo)  ~  III:  Introduzione: Andante sostenuto - Allegro deciso (in modo zingaro)
Theme & Cadenza for Violin & Orchestra                                                                                                 2 files zip FLAC  Mega Download
Alfredo Campoli, violin  ~  London Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Arthur Bliss 
Decca  ACL 317   1969 LP/matrices: ARL 2938 -3A / ARL 2939 -3A     Recorded: 9-11 November 1955 - Kingsway Hall 
A Colour Symphony    I: Purple (Andante maestoso) ~ II: Red (Allegro vivace) ~ III: Blue (Gently Flowing) ~ IV: Green (Moderato)     
Introduction & Allegro                                                                                                                      2 files zip FLAC Mega Download
Decca  ACL 239    1964 LP/matrices: ARL 2948 -5K / ARL 2949 -5K     Recorded: 23/24 November 1955 - Kingsway Hall 
"Things to Come"   Suite:  Ballet for Children, Attack, Pestilence, Reconstruction, Machines, March  /  "Welcome the Queen"     2 files zip FLAC  Mega Download
Decca / RCA  SB 2045  1960 LP  Matrix: J2RY 5253-D -1K   Rec: 30 April 1957 - Kingsway Hall  /  21 May 1957 - Walthamstow Assembly Hall 
London Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Arthur Bliss 

Sleeve-notes, etc >>>   TTC slightly re-edited: Dec.2013. (Violin Concerto is the complete version: without the 1minute scherzo 'cut' used for the original LXT & later ECS LP's..

1960 WRC - Bliss conducting "Checkmate": http://pristineclassics.blogspot.com/2018/04/2448-arthur-bliss-sinfonia-of-london.html




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"My next post will be a review of the latest repristination of Bliss's A Colour Symphony, on the Pristine Audio label".

John France now fakes the comment I left there (my tinear logo is missing + later text)... so another example of "repristination" -AKA: Creating Fakes!