Other nice Eroica recordings

Although no match for Karajan's 1944 Eroica, Kabasta's is also a fine reading.

George Szell's Cleveland Eroica has all the good ingredients of a Toscanini counterpart, and the sound is much better than any of the latter's recordings.

When Szell travelled back to Salzburg and performed the Eroica with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra on 4 August 1963, a special alchemy happened. The only unsavory blemish to an otherwise great reading is the obvious mistake made by the first horn in the transition to the recapitulation in the first movement. The East-European timbre of the oboe is an extra delight.