Beethoven Symphony No. 3 discography

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This article aims to include information on all recordings of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 that have ever been available to the public.

YearConductorOrchestraReferencesAudio/Notes
1922 Henry Wood New Queen's Hall Orchestra (abridged version, c.24 mins )
1924 Oskar Fried Berlin Staatsoper
1924 Frieder Weissmann Berlin State Opera Orchestra
1926 Albert Coates London Symphony Orchestra First movement:


Second movement:

1926 Henry Wood New Queen's Hall Orchestra
1929 Max von Schillings Vienna State Opera Orchestra
1929 Hans Pfitzner Berlin Philharmonic First movement:


Second movement:
Third movement:
Fourth movement:

1930 Willem Mengelberg New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
1934 Serge Koussevitzky London Philharmonic Orchestra First movement:


Second movement:
Third movement:
Fourth movement:

1936 Felix Weingartner Vienna Philharmonic (also said to be 1935, 1937)
1937 Eugen Jochum Berlin Philharmonic
1938 Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony
1939 Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony Orchestra
1940 Willem Mengelberg Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
1941 Bruno Walter New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
1941 Carl Schuricht Berlin Philharmonic
1943 Hans Knappertsbusch Berlin Philharmonic
1943 Oswald Kabasta Munich Philharmonic
1944 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Staatsoper (as Preussische Staatskapelle)
1944 Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony
1944 Wilhelm Furtwängler Berlin Philharmonic
1944 Wilhelm Furtwängler Vienna Philharmonic
1945 Serge Koussevitsky Boston Symphony
1945 Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony
1946 Victor de Sabata London Symphony
1947 Wilhelm Furtwängler Vienna Philharmonic
1948 Erich Kleiber NBC Symphony (live)
1949 Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony
1949 Hermann Abendroth Leipzig MDR Orchestra
1949 Dimitri Mitropoulos New York Philharmonic
1950 Erich Kleiber Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
1950 Wilhelm Furtwängler Berlin Philharmonic
1951 Paul van Kempen Berlin Philharmonic
1951 Franz R. Friedl Berlin Symphony Orchestra
1951 Hans Knappertsbusch Bremen Philharmonic
1952 Herbert von Karajan Philharmonia Orchestra
1952 Wilhelm Furtwängler Vienna Philharmonic
1952 Wilhelm Furtwängler Vienna Philharmonic (live)
1952 Wilhelm Furtwängler Berlin Philharmonic (live, December 1952)
1952 Carl Schuricht Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
1952 Erich Leinsdorf Rochester Philharmonic
1953 Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony
1953 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic
1953 Wilhelm Furtwängler RAI Orchestra Turin
1953 Hans Knappertsbusch Munich Philharmonic
1953 Leonard Bernstein New York Stadium Concerts Symphony
1953 Hermann Abendroth Warsaw Philharmonic
1953 Jascha Horenstein Vienna Pro Musica Symphony
1954 Otto Klemperer Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 – Klemperer on YouTube
1954 Hermann Abendroth Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
1954 Thomas Beecham Royal Philharmonic
1954 Eugen Jochum Berlin Philharmonic
1954 Fritz Reiner Chicago Symphony
1954 Franz Konwitschny Dresden Staatskapelle
1955 Erich Kleiber Vienna Philharmonic
1955 Otto Klemperer Philharmonia Orchestra
1955 Erich Kleiber Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
1956 Rafael Kubelik Orchestre national de France
1956 Günter Wand Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne (live)
1957 Charles Munch Boston Symphony
1957 George Szell Cleveland Orchestra
1957 George Szell Berlin Philharmonic
1957 Pierre Monteux Vienna Philharmonic
1957 Bruno Walter Symphony of the Air
1957 Antal Dorati Minneapolis Symphony
1957 Jascha Horenstein Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra
1957 Ataúlfo Argenta National Orchestra of Spain
1958 Hermann Scherchen Vienna State Opera Orchestra
1958 Otto Klemperer Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
1958 Bruno Walter Columbia Symphony
1959 Georg Solti Vienna Philharmonic
1959 Sergiu Celibidache RAI Orchestra Milan
1959 Ferenc Fricsay Berlin Philharmonic
1959 Lovro von Matačić Czech Philharmonic
1959 Carl Schuricht Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
1959 Rudolf Kempe Berlin Philharmonic (live)
1959 Otto Klemperer Philharmonia Orchestra
1960 Ernest Ansermet Suisse Romande Orchestra
1960 André Cluytens Berlin Philharmonic
1960 Josef Krips London Symphony Orchestra
1960 Pierre Monteux Royal Philharmonic (live)
1960 Joseph Keilberth Hamburg State Philharmonic
1960 Otto Klemperer Philharmonia Orchestra (live, Vienna Festival)
1961 Rudolf Moralt Vienna Festival Orchestra
1961 René Leibowitz Royal Philharmonic
1961 Ferenc Fricsay Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
1961 Carl Schuricht Vienna Philharmonic
1961 Evgeny Mravinsky Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
1962 Adrian Boult London Philharmonic Orchestra
1962 Hans Knappertsbusch Vienna Philharmonic
1962 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic
1962 Karl Böhm Berlin Philharmonic
1962 Pierre Monteux Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
1963 Ignace Neumark Utrecht Symphony Orchestra
1963 Erich Leinsdorf Boston Symphony
1963 William Steinberg Pittsburgh Symphony
1963 George Szell Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
1963 Otto Klemperer Vienna Symphony Orchestra
1964 Carl Schuricht Berlin Philharmonic (live)
1964 Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic
1965 Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic
1966 Michael Gielen Vienna Staatsoper
1966 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Vienna Philharmonic
1968 Georg Solti London Symphony (live)
1968 John Barbirolli BBC Symphony
1968 Eduard Lindenberg Vienna Volksoper
1968 Paul Kletzki Czech Philharmonic
1968 Franz Konwitschny Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
1969 Eugen Jochum Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
1970 John Barbirolli BBC Symphony
1970 Colin Davis BBC Symphony
1970 Wolfgang Sawallisch RIAS Berlin Symphony Orchestra
1970 Sergiu Celibidache Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
1971 Rafael Kubelik Vienna Philharmonic
1971 Rafael Kubelik Berlin Philharmonic
1971 Sergiu Celibidache South German Radio Symphony Orchestra
1972 Karl Böhm Vienna Philharmonic
1972 Rudolf Barshai studio orchestra [ permanent dead link ]
1973 Kurt Masur Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
1973 Herbert Blomstedt Dresden Staatskapelle
1973 Alexander von Pitamic Munich Symphony Orchestra
1974 Rudolf Kempe Munich Philharmonic
1974 Leopold Stokowski London Symphony (his only Eroica - aged 93!)
1974 Bernard Haitink London Philharmonic Orchestra
1975 Antal Dorati Royal Philharmonic
1975 Seiji Ozawa San Francisco Symphony
1976 Carlos Païta Scottish National Orchestra
1976 Eugen Jochum London Symphony
1977 Eugen Jochum Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (live)
1977 Walther Richter London Pro Musica Symphony Orchestra
1977 Lorin Maazel Cleveland Orchestra
1977 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic
1978 Karl Böhm Bavarian Radio Symphony
1979 Carlo Maria Giulini Los Angeles Philharmonic
1979 Leonard Bernstein Vienna Philharmonic
1980 Franzjosef Maier Collegium Aureum
1980 Michael Gielen Cincinnati Symphony
1980 Carlo Maria Giulini Los Angeles Philharmonic (live in London)
1981 Kurt Sanderling Philharmonia Orchestra
1981 Kurt Sanderling Philharmonia Orchestra
1982 Neville Marriner Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
1982 Evgeny Svetlanov USSR State Symphony Orchestra
1982 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic
1982 Günther Herbig Berlin Symphony Orchestra
1983 Herbert Kegel Dresden Philharmonic
1984 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic
1984 János Ferencsik Hungarian Philharmonic
1985 Christopher Hogwood Academy of Ancient Music
1985 Karl Münchinger Stuttgart SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra
1985 Günter Wand North German Radio Symphony
1987 Roy Goodman Hanover Band
1987 Sergiu Celibidache Munich Philharmonic
1987 Riccardo Muti Philadelphia Orchestra
1987 Bernard Haitink Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
1987 Claudio Abbado Vienna Philharmonic
1988 Frans Brüggen Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (live, Amsterdam)
1988 Roger Norrington London Classical Players
1988 Michael Halász Bratislava CSR Symphony
1988 Evgeny Svetlanov Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
1988 Wyn Morris London Symphony
1988 Georg Tintner Symphony Nova Scotia (live)
1988 Anton Nanut Ljubljana Symphony Orchestra
1989 Christoph von Dohnányi Cleveland Orchestra
1989 Walter Weller City of Birmingham Symphony
1989 Georg Solti Chicago Symphony
1989 Günter Wand North German Radio Symphony
1989 Zubin Mehta New York Philharmonic
1989 Michael Tilson Thomas Orchestra of St. Luke's
1989 Takashi Asahina New Japan Philharmonic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9NGAXOj12Y
1989 Takashi Asahina Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
1989 Hiroshi Wakasugi Dresden Staatskapelle
1989 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos London Symphony
1990? Charles Mackerras Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
1990 Takashi Asahina Kurashiki Musik Festival Orchestra
1990 Vladimir Fedoseyev Moscow Radio & TV Orchestra
1990 Alberto Delande Süddeutsche Philharmonie
1991 Henry Adolph Süddeutsche Philharmonie
1991 Nikolaus Harnoncourt Chamber Orchestra of Europe
1991 Klaus Tennstedt London Philharmonic
1991 Zdeněk Košler Slovak Philharmonic
1991 Kurt Masur Leipzig Gewandhaus
1991 Frank Beermann North German Chamber Symphony
1992 Jukka-Pekka Saraste Scottish Chamber Orchestra
1992 Carlo Maria Giulini La Scala Philharmonic, Milan
1992 Herbert Blomstedt San Francisco Symphony
1993 Kirill Kondrashin Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (live)
1993 James Levine Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
1993 John Eliot Gardiner Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
1993 Wolfgang Sawallisch Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
1993 Otmar Suitner Berlin Staatskapelle
1993 Richard Hickox Northern Sinfonia
1993 Colin Davis Dresden Staatskapelle
1993 Giuseppe Sinopoli Israel Philharmonic
1994 Alexander Titov St Petersburg Conservatory Orchestra
1994 Yehudi Menuhin Sinfonia Varsovia
1994 Dennis Russell Davies Bonn Beethovenhalle Orchestra
1994 Jordi Savall Le Concert des Nations
1994 Peter Maag Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
1994 Günther Herbig BBC Philharmonic
1994 Carlo Maria Giulini Vienna Philharmonic (live)
1994 Günther Herbig Royal Philharmonic
1994 Jaap Schroder Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra
1995 Béla Drahos Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia (Budapest)
1995 Peter Tiboris Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic (with Mahler's orchestral re-touches)
1995 Stephen Kovacevich BBC Philharmonic
1995 Heinrich Schiff Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
1996 Marc Soustrot Bonn Beethovenhalle Orchestra
1996 Antonino Polizzi Budapest Symphony Orchestra
1996 Takashi Asahina Osaka Philharmonic
1998 David Zinman Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
1999 Walter Attanasi Camerata Cassovia
2000 Michael Gielen Southwest German Radio Symphony
2000 Claudio Abbado Berlin Philharmonic
2000 Daniel Barenboim Berlin Staatskapelle
2000 Djansug Kakhidze Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
2001 Claudio Abbado Berlin Philharmonic ('Rome' set)
2002 Jaap van Zweden Hague Residentie Orchestra
2002 Roger Norrington Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
2004 Vladimir Fedoseyev Moscow RTV Symphony Orchestra
2005 Osmo Vänskä Minnesota Orchestra
2005 Andrew Manze Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
2005 John Eliot Gardiner Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
2005 Riccardo Chailly Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
2005 Helmut Müller-Brühl Kölner Kammerorchester
2005 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
2006 Thomas Dausgaard Swedish Chamber Orchestra
2006 Michael Tilson Thomas San Francisco Symphony
2006 Kent Nagano Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
2006 Daniel Grossmann Ensemble 28
2006 Alexander Rudin "Musica Viva" Academic Chamber Orchestra
2006 Bernard Haitink London Symphony Orchestra
2006 Jos van Immerseel Anima Eterna
2006 Charles Mackerras Scottish Chamber Orchestra
2007 Bertrand de Billy Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
2007 Gustav Kuhn Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano & Trento
2007 Gustavo Dudamel Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
2008 Philippe Herreweghe Royal Flemish Philharmonic
2008 Paavo Järvi Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
2008 Eduardo Chibas Venezuela Symphony Orchestra
2009 Seiji Ozawa Saito Kinen Orchestra
2009 Sylvain Cambreling SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden & Freiburg
2009 Christoph von Dohnányi Philharmonia Orchestra
2009 Jean-Philippe Tremblay Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne
2010 Emmanuel Krivine La Chambre Philharmonique
2011 Frans Brüggen Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
2011 Frans Brüggen Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (live, Rotterdam)
2011 Kent Nagano Montreal Symphony Orchestra
2011 Alexander Jero studio orchestra
2012 Gustavo Dudamel Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
2012 Mikhail Pletnev Russian National Orchestra
2012 Mariss Jansons Bavarian Radio Symphony
2012 Daniel Barenboim West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
2012 Bruno Weil Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
2012 Beatrice Venezi Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra
2013 Claudio Abbado Lucerne Festival Orchestra
2013 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
2015 Gabriel Feltz Stuttgart Philharmonic

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