Beethoven Symphony No. 3 discography

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

Year Conductor Orchestra References Audio/Notes
1922 Henry Wood New Queen's Hall Orchestra [1] [2](abridged version, c.24 mins )
1924 Oskar Fried Berlin Staatsoper [3] [4]
1924 Frieder Weissmann Berlin State Opera Orchestra [5] [6]
1926 Albert Coates London Symphony Orchestra First movement:


Second movement:

1926 Henry Wood New Queen's Hall Orchestra [7] [8]
1929 Max von Schillings Vienna State Opera Orchestra [9]
1929 Hans Pfitzner Berlin Philharmonic First movement:


Second movement:
Third movement:
Fourth movement:

1930 Willem Mengelberg New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra [10] [11]
1934 Serge Koussevitzky London Philharmonic Orchestra First movement:


Second movement:
Third movement:
Fourth movement:

1936 Felix Weingartner Vienna Philharmonic [12] [13](also said to be 1935, 1937)
1937 Eugen Jochum Berlin Philharmonic [14] [15]
1938 Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony [16]
1939 Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony Orchestra [17] [18]
1940 Willem Mengelberg Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [19] [20]
1941 Bruno Walter New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra [21] [22]
1941 Carl Schuricht Berlin Philharmonic [23] [24]
1943 Hans Knappertsbusch Berlin Philharmonic [25]
1943 Oswald Kabasta Munich Philharmonic [26]
1944 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Staatsoper (as Preussische Staatskapelle) [27]
1944 Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony [28]
1944 Wilhelm Furtwängler Berlin Philharmonic [29]
1944 Wilhelm Furtwängler Vienna Philharmonic [30]
1945 Serge Koussevitsky Boston Symphony [31] [32]
1945 Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony [33]
1946 Victor de Sabata London Symphony [34] [35]
1947 Wilhelm Furtwängler Vienna Philharmonic [36]
1948 Erich Kleiber NBC Symphony [37] (live)
1949 Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony [38]
1949 Hermann Abendroth Leipzig MDR Orchestra [39]
1949 Dimitri Mitropoulos New York Philharmonic [40]
1950 Erich Kleiber Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [41] [42]
1950 Wilhelm Furtwängler Berlin Philharmonic [43]
1951 Paul van Kempen Berlin Philharmonic [44]
1951 Franz R. Friedl Berlin Symphony Orchestra [45]
1951 Hans Knappertsbusch Bremen Philharmonic [46]
1952 Herbert von Karajan Philharmonia Orchestra [47] [48]
1952 Wilhelm Furtwängler Vienna Philharmonic [49] [50]
1952 Wilhelm Furtwängler Vienna Philharmonic (live) [51]
1952 Wilhelm Furtwängler Berlin Philharmonic [52] (live, December 1952)
1952 Carl Schuricht Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra [53]
1952 Erich Leinsdorf Rochester Philharmonic [54]
1953 Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony [55]
1953 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic [56]
1953 Wilhelm Furtwängler RAI Orchestra Turin [57]
1953 Hans Knappertsbusch Munich Philharmonic [58]
1953 Leonard Bernstein New York Stadium Concerts Symphony [59]
1953 Hermann Abendroth Warsaw Philharmonic [60]
1953 Jascha Horenstein Vienna Pro Musica Symphony [61]
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 [62]
1954 Thomas Beecham Royal Philharmonic [63] [64]
1954 Eugen Jochum Berlin Philharmonic [65] [66]
1954 Fritz Reiner Chicago Symphony [67]
1954 Franz Konwitschny Dresden Staatskapelle [68]
1955 Erich Kleiber Vienna Philharmonic [69]
1955 Otto Klemperer Philharmonia Orchestra [70][71] [72]
1955 Erich Kleiber Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra [73]
1956 Rafael Kubelik Orchestre national de France [74]
1956 Günter Wand Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne [75] (live)
1957 Charles Munch Boston Symphony [76]
1957 George Szell Cleveland Orchestra [77]
1957 George Szell Berlin Philharmonic [78]
1957 Pierre Monteux Vienna Philharmonic [79]
1957 Bruno Walter Symphony of the Air [80]
1957 Antal Dorati Minneapolis Symphony [81]
1957 Jascha Horenstein Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra [82]
1957 Ataúlfo Argenta National Orchestra of Spain [83]
1958 Hermann Scherchen Vienna State Opera Orchestra [84] [85]
1958 Otto Klemperer Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin [86]
1958 Bruno Walter Columbia Symphony [87]
1959 Georg Solti Vienna Philharmonic [88]
1959 Sergiu Celibidache RAI Orchestra Milan [89]
1959 Ferenc Fricsay Berlin Philharmonic [90]
1959 Lovro von Matačić Czech Philharmonic [91]
1959 Carl Schuricht Paris Conservatoire Orchestra [92]
1959 Rudolf Kempe Berlin Philharmonic [93] (live)
1959 Otto Klemperer Philharmonia Orchestra [94]
1960 Ernest Ansermet Suisse Romande Orchestra [95]
1960 André Cluytens Berlin Philharmonic [96]
1960 Josef Krips London Symphony Orchestra [97]
1960 Pierre Monteux Royal Philharmonic [98] (live)
1960 Joseph Keilberth Hamburg State Philharmonic [99]
1960 Otto Klemperer Philharmonia Orchestra [100] (live, Vienna Festival)
1961 Rudolf Moralt Vienna Festival Orchestra [101]
1961 René Leibowitz Royal Philharmonic [102]
1961 Ferenc Fricsay Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin [103]
1961 Carl Schuricht Vienna Philharmonic [104]
1961 Evgeny Mravinsky Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra [105]
1962 Adrian Boult London Philharmonic Orchestra [106]
1962 Hans Knappertsbusch Vienna Philharmonic [107]
1962 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic [108]
1962 Karl Böhm Berlin Philharmonic [109]
1962 Pierre Monteux Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [110]
1963 Ignace Neumark Utrecht Symphony Orchestra [111]
1963 Erich Leinsdorf Boston Symphony [112]
1963 William Steinberg Pittsburgh Symphony [113]
1963 George Szell Czech Philharmonic Orchestra [114]
1963 Otto Klemperer Vienna Symphony Orchestra [115]
1964 Carl Schuricht Berlin Philharmonic [116] (live)
1964 Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic [117]
1965 Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic [118]
1966 Michael Gielen Vienna Staatsoper [119]
1966 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Vienna Philharmonic [120]
1968 Georg Solti London Symphony [121] (live)
1968 John Barbirolli BBC Symphony [122]
1968 Eduard Lindenberg Vienna Volksoper [123]
1968 Paul Kletzki Czech Philharmonic [124]
1968 Franz Konwitschny Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra [125]
1969 Eugen Jochum Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [126]
1970 John Barbirolli BBC Symphony [127]
1970 Colin Davis BBC Symphony [128]
1970 Wolfgang Sawallisch RIAS Berlin Symphony Orchestra [129]
1970 Sergiu Celibidache Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra [130]
1971 Rafael Kubelik Vienna Philharmonic [131]
1971 Rafael Kubelik Berlin Philharmonic [132]
1971 Sergiu Celibidache South German Radio Symphony Orchestra [133]
1972 Karl Böhm Vienna Philharmonic [134]
1972 Rudolf Barshai studio orchestra [135][permanent dead link‍]
1973 Kurt Masur Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra [136]
1973 Herbert Blomstedt Dresden Staatskapelle [137]
1973 Alexander von Pitamic Munich Symphony Orchestra [138]
1974 Rudolf Kempe Munich Philharmonic [139]
1974 Leopold Stokowski London Symphony [140] (his only Eroica - aged 93!)
1974 Bernard Haitink London Philharmonic Orchestra [141]
1975 Antal Dorati Royal Philharmonic [142]
1975 Seiji Ozawa San Francisco Symphony [143]
1976 Carlos Païta Scottish National Orchestra [144]
1976 Eugen Jochum London Symphony [145]
1977 Eugen Jochum Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [146] (live)
1977 Walther Richter London Pro Musica Symphony Orchestra [147]
1977 Lorin Maazel Cleveland Orchestra [148]
1977 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic [149]
1978 Karl Böhm Bavarian Radio Symphony [150]
1979 Carlo Maria Giulini Los Angeles Philharmonic [151]
1979 Leonard Bernstein Vienna Philharmonic [152]
1980 Franzjosef Maier Collegium Aureum [153]
1980 Michael Gielen Cincinnati Symphony [154]
1980 Carlo Maria Giulini Los Angeles Philharmonic [155] (live in London)
1981 Kurt Sanderling Philharmonia Orchestra [156]
1981 Kurt Sanderling Philharmonia Orchestra [157]
1982 Neville Marriner Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields [158]
1982 Evgeny Svetlanov USSR State Symphony Orchestra [159]
1982 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic [160]
1982 Günther Herbig Berlin Symphony Orchestra [161]
1983 Herbert Kegel Dresden Philharmonic [162]
1984 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic [163]
1984 János Ferencsik Hungarian Philharmonic [164]
1985 Christopher Hogwood Academy of Ancient Music [165]
1985 Karl Münchinger Stuttgart SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra [166]
1985 Günter Wand North German Radio Symphony [167]
1987 Roy Goodman Hanover Band [168]
1987 Sergiu Celibidache Munich Philharmonic [169]
1987 Riccardo Muti Philadelphia Orchestra [170]
1987 Bernard Haitink Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [171]
1987 Claudio Abbado Vienna Philharmonic [172]
1988 Frans Brüggen Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century [173] (live, Amsterdam)
1988 Roger Norrington London Classical Players [174]
1988 Michael Halász Bratislava CSR Symphony [175]
1988 Evgeny Svetlanov Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra [176]
1988 Wyn Morris London Symphony [177]
1988 Georg Tintner Symphony Nova Scotia [178] (live)
1988 Anton Nanut Ljubljana Symphony Orchestra [179]
1989 Christoph von Dohnányi Cleveland Orchestra [180]
1989 Walter Weller City of Birmingham Symphony [181]
1989 Georg Solti Chicago Symphony [182]
1989 Günter Wand North German Radio Symphony [183]
1989 Zubin Mehta New York Philharmonic [184]
1989 Michael Tilson Thomas Orchestra of St. Luke's [185]
1989 Takashi Asahina New Japan Philharmonic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9NGAXOj12Y
1989 Takashi Asahina Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin [186]
1989 Hiroshi Wakasugi Dresden Staatskapelle [187]
1989 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos London Symphony [188]
1990? Charles Mackerras Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra [189]
1990 Takashi Asahina Kurashiki Musik Festival Orchestra [190]
1990 Vladimir Fedoseyev Moscow Radio & TV Orchestra [191]
1990 Alberto Delande Süddeutsche Philharmonie [192]
1991 Henry Adolph Süddeutsche Philharmonie [193]
1991 Nikolaus Harnoncourt Chamber Orchestra of Europe [194][195]
1991 Klaus Tennstedt London Philharmonic [196]
1991 Zdeněk Košler Slovak Philharmonic [197]
1991 Kurt Masur Leipzig Gewandhaus [198]
1991 Frank Beermann North German Chamber Symphony [199]
1992 Jukka-Pekka Saraste Scottish Chamber Orchestra [200]
1992 Carlo Maria Giulini La Scala Philharmonic, Milan [201]
1992 Herbert Blomstedt San Francisco Symphony [202]
1993 Kirill Kondrashin Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [203] (live)
1993 James Levine Metropolitan Opera Orchestra [204]
1993 John Eliot Gardiner Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique [205]
1993 Wolfgang Sawallisch Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [206]
1993 Otmar Suitner Berlin Staatskapelle [207]
1993 Richard Hickox Northern Sinfonia [208]
1993 Colin Davis Dresden Staatskapelle [209]
1993 Giuseppe Sinopoli Israel Philharmonic [210]
1994 Alexander Titov St Petersburg Conservatory Orchestra [211]
1994 Yehudi Menuhin Sinfonia Varsovia [212]
1994 Dennis Russell Davies Bonn Beethovenhalle Orchestra [213]
1994 Jordi Savall Le Concert des Nations [214]
1994 Peter Maag Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto [215]
1994 Günther Herbig BBC Philharmonic [216]
1994 Carlo Maria Giulini Vienna Philharmonic [217] (live)
1994 Günther Herbig Royal Philharmonic [218]
1994 Jaap Schroder Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra [219]
1995 Béla Drahos Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia (Budapest) [220]
1995 Peter Tiboris Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic [221] (with Mahler's orchestral re-touches)
1995 Stephen Kovacevich BBC Philharmonic [222]
1995 Heinrich Schiff Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen [223]
1996 Marc Soustrot Bonn Beethovenhalle Orchestra [224]
1996 Antonino Polizzi Budapest Symphony Orchestra [225]
1996 Takashi Asahina Osaka Philharmonic [226]
1998 David Zinman Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich [227]
1999 Walter Attanasi Camerata Cassovia [228]
2000 Michael Gielen Southwest German Radio Symphony [229]
2000 Claudio Abbado Berlin Philharmonic [230]
2000 Daniel Barenboim Berlin Staatskapelle [231]
2000 Djansug Kakhidze Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra [232]
2001 Claudio Abbado Berlin Philharmonic [233] ('Rome' set)[234]
2002 Jaap van Zweden Hague Residentie Orchestra [235]
2002 Roger Norrington Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra [236]
2004 Vladimir Fedoseyev Moscow RTV Symphony Orchestra [237]
2005 Osmo Vänskä Minnesota Orchestra [238]
2005 Andrew Manze Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra [239]
2005 John Eliot Gardiner Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique [240]
2005 Riccardo Chailly Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra [241]
2005 Helmut Müller-Brühl Kölner Kammerorchester [242]
2005 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra [243]
2006 Thomas Dausgaard Swedish Chamber Orchestra [244]
2006 Michael Tilson Thomas San Francisco Symphony [245]
2006 Kent Nagano Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin [246]
2006 Daniel Grossmann Ensemble 28 [247]
2006 Alexander Rudin "Musica Viva" Academic Chamber Orchestra [248]
2006 Bernard Haitink London Symphony Orchestra [249]
2006 Jos van Immerseel Anima Eterna [250]
2006 Charles Mackerras Scottish Chamber Orchestra [251]
2007 Bertrand de Billy Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra [252]
2007 Gustav Kuhn Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano & Trento [253]
2007 Gustavo Dudamel Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela [254]
2008 Philippe Herreweghe Royal Flemish Philharmonic [255]
2008 Paavo Järvi Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie [256]
2008 Eduardo Chibas Venezuela Symphony Orchestra [257]
2009 Seiji Ozawa Saito Kinen Orchestra [258]
2009 Sylvain Cambreling SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden & Freiburg [259]
2009 Christoph von Dohnányi Philharmonia Orchestra [260]
2009 Jean-Philippe Tremblay Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne [261]
2010 Emmanuel Krivine La Chambre Philharmonique [262]
2011 Frans Brüggen Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century [263]
2011 Frans Brüggen Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century [264] (live, Rotterdam)
2011 Kent Nagano Montreal Symphony Orchestra [265]
2011 Alexander Jero studio orchestra [266]
2012 Gustavo Dudamel Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela [267]
2012 Mikhail Pletnev Russian National Orchestra [268]
2012 Mariss Jansons Bavarian Radio Symphony [269]
2012 Daniel Barenboim West-Eastern Divan Orchestra [270]
2012 Bruno Weil Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra [271]
2012 Beatrice Venezi Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra
2013 Claudio Abbado Lucerne Festival Orchestra [272]
2013 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
2015 Gabriel Feltz Stuttgart Philharmonic [273]