While Furtwangler left us with a memorable account of a war-time Eroica, his successor did just the same. Karajan's first recorded Eroica in 1944.Eloquent and deeply-felt but without self-indulgence, and devoid of his trademark sheen imposed on his BPO recordings since the 1970's.
When compared with another contemporaneous recording made by Oswald Kabasta, Karajan shows us he is the master craftsman, rendering Kabasta's fine reading appear so mediocre.
I'd venture to say that judging from this recording alone, he is a worthy, if not the only worthy, successor to Furtwangler.
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