Search - John Barbirolli BBC Symphony Orchestra :: Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' (Original Jacket Series)

?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.?