Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Sir John Barbirolli
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 9029573998
Release: 2018
Size: 510 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 ‘Eroica’
01. I. Allego con brio
02. II. Marcia Funebre (Adagio assai)
03. III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) & Trio
04. IV. Finale (Allegro Molto – Poco Andante – Presto)
“If this isn’t great interpretation, I don’t know what is,” wrote Gramophone’s reviewer in 1968, when this recording was first released, “I have no hesitation in saying that I think it the greatest performance I have yet heard on record.” John Barbirolli, an intense and inspired interpreter of Beethoven’s music, had been conducting the Eroica for many years, but the symphony acquired a special significance for him in the final years of his life. “Strange how the Eroica exhausts me these days,” he wrote in 1966. “It may well be because I am really beginning to plumb its depths.”