The legendary conductor Felix Weingartner was renowned for his interpretation of the classical repertoire, particularly the music of Beethoven, and was the first to conduct all the Beethoven symphonies on record. Neville Cardus said of the maestro: ‘He belongs to the cultured epoch of music, the epoch of good manners and taste – and sound scholarship.’ Weingartner’s reading of the ‘Eroica’ was regarded as one of the touchstones of his art, and for all the considerable accomplishments of the British orchestras that he worked with, the Vienna Philharmonic brings added distinction to a performance captured in the sympathetic acoustic of the Musikvereinsaal. In the Fourth Symphony, Weingartner fashions a symphonic scenario adroitly balanced between intellectual and emotional equilibrium.