Percy Grainger, who had taken part in Basil Cameron's 1914 Torquay music festival described Cameron as possessing a "peculiar quality of excitement and exhilaration". Sir Henry Wood described Cameron as having a "real grip over the orchestra". On this disc you can hear exactly why these views were expressed.
1PD27 The Art of Basil Cameron
This disc of the quiet master musician contains
Gabriel Pierne - March of the Little Lead Soldiers
Brighton Regal Orchestra (circa 1920)
Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 8 in G Op. 88
National Symphony Orchestra (1945)
Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2
London Philharmonic Orchestra (1949)
Percy Grainger - Jutish Melody
Symphony Orchestra with the compser playing thhe harmonium (1929)
"Cameron's unaffectedly poetic style immediately registers, while his secure grasp of symphonic form makes for a memorably direct Dvorak Eight" Rob Cowan in Gramophone October 2008
"What a musician! Cameron here conducts the lovelist performance of Dvoark's Eight Symphony I've ever heard, bar none, with playing to match. His Peer Gynt too, is fabulous" ***** for performance. Micheal Hayes in BBC Music September 2008
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