Have a look around, let me know what you think: send comments to eroica_project@hotmail.com.

To those who have been asking why the site has gone quiet: from 2001 on, I used a single machine to maintain this site, and last year I had to retire it. Building a new server will take substantial time, and other projects have kept me busy, but I expect to resume regular updates eventually.

Many new performances added to the survey, mostly recorded from Internet broadcasts (not by me) and posted by participants in various discussion groups.

The increase in this activity is phenomenal; there are now 397 performances on hand, and for the first time in years there are many recent commercial releases I haven't yet tried to obtain.

Welcome Metafilter visitors! A mention on Metafilter sent traffic here to an all-time high.

Updated the Eroica Discography, added a few more metrics. There are now 386 performances on hand.

New additions since August include: Barenboim 97, Celibidache 59, Gielen 87 (DVD), Järvi 05 Minkowski 00, Otterloo 72, Pappano 08, Steck 05, Storgards 07, Vänskä 06, Unger 45, Uno 90.

Updated the Discography, added a few more metrics. There are now 376 performances on hand.

New additions since March include: Boulez 62, Bour 80, de Billy 2006, Dessau 70, Haitink 2007, Karajan 81 (DVD), Klemperer 70 (DVD), Kubelik 56, McCreesh 2005, Nagano 06 (DVD), Solti 83, Stein 90 (DVD), Tilson Thomas 2006 (DVD).

Added a clip of Daniel Grossman leading Ensemble 28 to the Extremes page -- the fastest 'slow" movement ever.

Revised formatting of the Discography page so it looks better in Mozilla.

Fixed broken links on this page.

Welcome, memepool visitors. Normally, traffic here averages 60 visitors per day. On 4/2/07, a link to this site appeared on memepool. Traffic spiked to nearly 400 visitors per day, and has been gradually tapering off. Still around 4x normal.

Added a complete copy of the 1926 Albert Coates performance to the Sounds page.

New arrivals since January (see Discography for details): Batiz 1996, Dausgaard 2002, Dohnanyi 2006, Kawai 1994, Kocsis 2005, Szell 1970, Toscanini April 20 1949.

There are now 363 performances on hand.

New arrivals (since last April; see discography for full details): Asahina 67, Barenboim 2007, Enrique Batiz 96, van Beinum 57, Jiri Belohlavek 2006, Thomas Dausgaard 2002, Dohnanyi 2006, Eschenbach 2005, Ferencsik 63, Giulini 79, Haitink 2005, Ryoichi Kawai 1994, Erich Kloss 1969, Zoltan Kocsis 2005, Kegel 75, Kubelik 82, Mackerras 2006, Enzo Marciano 88, Maazel 2006, Kent Nagano 2006, Rico Saccani 2003, Skrowaczewski 2005, Suitner 81, Tennstedt 79, Tennstedt 82, Toscanini 11/26/49

Trying to cut into the backlog for the metrics database -- Second half of Development has reached 100 performances.

New arrivals: Heinz Bongartz (Weitblick), Franz Brüggen 1987 (Philips DVD), Carl St. Clair (Denon DVD), John Eliot Gardiner 2002 ('Eroica' telefilm DVD), Helmut Müller-Brühl (Naxos), Simon Rattle (9/1 Lucerne broadcast), Jose Serebrier (Kultur VHS), Carl Schuricht 1963 (Living Stage) , Stanislaw Skrowaczewski 2002 (BMG Japan).

333 versions now on hand.

First half of Development now complete to 1971 (193 performances). Second half of Development has 89 performances. I will note here that a comparison of these two charts shows that 89 perforamnces are clearly not enough to get a good picture of what constitutes a 'normal' performance.

I no longer spend much time (or money) on new acquisitions, but even so they seem to keep rolling in. I obtained the 1961 Wislocki performance mentioned on 6/1/2005 via eBay. Other arrivals since June include performances led by Colin Davis (8/19 Proms broadcast), Alexander Dmitriev (Melodiya LP), Daniel Grossmann (Preiser), Jonathan Brett Harrison (Orchestergesellschaft Zürich website), Herbert von Karajan (Unitel 1971), Gianandrea Noseda (BBC download), Morten Ryelund (Classico), Gunnar Staern (Lily), Mamoru Takahara (National Panasonic).

Added a link to this site in the Wikipedia entry Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)

Charts now also include recent performances from DVDs by Gielen and Abbado, and radio broadcasts by Brüggen and Gatti. (The Brüggen, from 2005 April 30, can be heard in streaming audio in the AVRO Listening Room.)

Updated the Discography, including the addition of VHS listings.
A sharp-eyed correspondent from Poland wrote that the Wislocki/Rowicki entries were confused. Upon examination, Stolat SZM 0101 (1977) was found to say Wislocki on the jacket, but Rowicki on the label! (It's Rowicki.) Also, there is apparently a 1961 Wislocki performance that had escaped prior notice.

The recommendations page now includes links to the various sound clips scattered about the site.

The comments on some older pages need revision.

Updated the Discography.
I never would have imagined I'd have a column from Sports Illustrated in my bibliography, but life is full of surprises.

Alexander von Pitamic (1918- )/Munich SO was issued in France in 1973 as LP: Sonopresse UM 64044.

My apologies to Herr von Pitamic.

Eight new recordings integrated into the metrics database (Dohnanyi 2003, Han, Mitropoulos 1955, Norrington 2002, Sinaisky, Svetlanov, Tabakov).

Updated the Discography.