When the Berliners played the Eroica under Karajan in London in 1958, Neville Cardus noted that the work was presented ‘as a strongly shaped example of musical art, not entirely as a force beyond music’. Off-trend at the time, it obviously awed the BBC players, much as it had awed the Berlin Philharmonic earlier that same year. Broad in tempo and richly sung, it is a reading that’s fathoms deep. In 1967 the BBC Symphony Orchestra invited Barbirolli to record the Eroica. ‘Tremendous’ is the right word for the Eroica, whether it’s used as a term of general approbation or as a description of a symphony before which musicians and audiences do, indeed, have cause to tremble. It really is a tremendous piece, isn’t it?’ It may well be because I am really beginning to plumb its depths. Writing in his diary in Houston on February 10, 1966, Sir John Barbirolli pondered, ‘Strange how the Eroica exhausts me these days. To find the perfect subscription for you, simply visit: .uk/subscribe
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