Beethoven's Eroica on Record in the 78 - LP Era

 

Here's a handy and surprising list of 89 recordings on 78s and LPs of Beethoven's Third symphony

It's not exhaustive so if you have more to add please let me know.  The CD era came in in 1983 here in Europe so my list stops there but many of these recordings have now found their way to CD.  There will be some films as well, such as van Beinum's 1957 telecast (which wasn't released as an LP) but Karajan's 1982 Eroica (a ferocious reading captured on video and released by Sony) which was on LP.  I haven't included either of Bernstein and Karajan's Unitel films, there may be more videos to include.

Please suggest recordings I've missed - preferably with conductor, a recording or release date and orchestra.

Conductor          19...                 Orchestra

Coates 27 “Symphony Orchestra”

Pfitzner 29 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO)

Weingartner 38 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (VPO)

Mengelberg 41 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO)

Walter I 41 New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO)

Karajan  I 44 Staatskapelle Berlin

De Sabata 46 London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO)

Furtwangler I 47 VPO

Koussevitsky 47 Boston Symphony Orchestra

Koussevitsky 49 LPO

Kleiber (E) I 50 RCO

Toscanini 50 NBC Symphony Orchestra

Busch (F) 51 Austrian SO

Beecham 52 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO)

Furtwangler II 52 VPO

Furtwangler III 52 BPO (pp)

Karajan II 53 Philharmonia

Leinsdorf 53 Rochester Orch

Scherchen I 53 Vienna State Opera Orchestra

Toscanini II 53 NBCSO (pp)

Bernstein I 53 NY Stadium SO

Jochum I 54 BPO

van Kempen 54 BPO

Klemperer I 55 Philharmonia

Reiner 55 Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO)

Dorati 57 Minneapolis SO

Schuricht - ONSCC Paris

Markevitch 57 Symphony of the Air

Szell 57 Cleveland Orchestra

van Bienum 57 RCO

 Schuricht 57 ONSCC Paris

Horenstein 58 SWR Symphony Orchestra

Munch 58 Boston Symphony Orchestra

Scherchen II 58 Vienna State Opera Orch

Keilberth 59 Hamburg Phil Staats Orch

Kleiber (E) II 59 VPO

Klemperer II 59 Philharmonia

Matacic 59 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Solti I 59 VPO

Walter II 59 Columbia Symphony OrchestraO

Ansermet 60 Swiss Romande Orchestra

Fricsay 60 BPO

Kempe 60 BPO

Krips 60 London Symphony Orchestra (LSO)

Cluytens 61 BPO

Hurst 61 RDNO (?)

Konwitschny 61 Gewandhaus Orchestra

Monteux I 61 VPO

Ormandy 61 Philadelphia Orchestra

Sargent 61 RPO

Wislocki 61 Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Bohm I 62 BPO

Boult 62 LPO

Monteux II 62 RCO

Karajan III 63 BPO

Kletzki I 63 South West Radio Symphony Orchestra (Germany)

Leinsdorf 63 BSO

Steinberg 63 Pittsburgh SO

Bernstein I 66 NYPO

Decker 66 Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchstra

Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt 66 VPO

Barbirolli 67 BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO)

Kubelik 67 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Kubelik II 67 BPO 5-13 March 

Kletzki II 68 Czech PO

Rudolf 68 Cincinnati SO

Jochum II 69 RCO

 Kubelik 70 BPO (tbc)

Davis 70 BBCSO

Bohm II 72 VPO

Kempe 74 Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Masur 75 Gewandhaus

Ozawa 75 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Solti II 75 CSO

Stowowski 75 LSO

Zender 75 SWRSO Saarbrücken (Germany)

Dorati 76 RPO

Paita 76 Scottish National Orchestra

Blomstedt 77 Statskapelle Dresden

Haitink 77 LPO

Jochum III 77 LSO

Karajan IIII 77 BPO

Maazel 77 Cleveland Orchestra

Morris 77 Symphonica of London

Giulini 79 Los Angles Philharmonic Orchestra

Bernstein 80 VPO

Masur 80 Gewandhaus

Mehta 80 NYPO

Suitner 80 Berlin Staastskapelle

Gielen 81 Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Rowicki 81 Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra

Sanderling, K 81 Philharmonia

Karajan (pp) V 82 BPO (pp)

Solti III 82 VPO

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