ABSTRACT
In 1948/1949 HMV had issued five recordings of 'Alfredo Campoli and his Orchestra' which he had made with them in the 1930s, and at the same time Decca released four recordings of 'Alfredo and his Salon Orchestra' which had originally been released in 1935 and 1936. From 1945 until 1964 Alfredo appeared regularly at the Proms and during those nineteen years he gave twenty-eight performances. The Proms had been given a much-needed revitalisation by William Glock when he was appointed Director of Music at the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1959 to 1973. A most gifted musician, whose career embraced performance , music criticism, music education and administration, Clock's tastes were unusually wide for the time. Nevertheless, it was Alfredo who decided on all points of performance - which is no more than to say that, with all its virtues and vices, he was in the mould of the 'romantic' violinist.
