Oskar Fried
Oskar Fried was a German conductor and composer, one of the important early interpreters of Mahler and a significant figure in the first decades of orchestral recording.
In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Beethoven, Stravinsky and early recording documents, including historic symphonic recordings from the acoustic and early electrical eras.
Fried’s conducting preserved a volatile, urgent style from a period when orchestral ...
STRAVINSKY The Firebird
STRAVINSKY Petrushka
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
STRAVINSKY Piano Music
MOZART Fugue in C minor
Studio recordings, 1916-1938
Total duration: 77:57
Beecham Symphony Orchestra ∙ Sir Thomas Beecham
Royal Albert Hall Orchestra ∙ Sir Eugene Goossens
Berlin State Opera Orchestra ∙ Oskar Fried
The Philadelphia Orchestra ∙ Leopold Stokowski
Igor Stravinsky, piano
Soulima Stravinsky, piano
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
Recorded in 1913 and 1924
Total duration: 76:21
Arthur Nikisch, conductor
Berlin State Opera Orchestra
Oskar Fried, conductor
LISZT Les Préludes
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
STRAVINSKY The Firebird – Suite (1919 Version)
Recorded 1928
Total duration: 75:16
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Oskar Fried, conductor
Studio recording, 1928
Total duration: 62:05
Jenny Sonnenberg, contralto
Eugen Transky, tenor
Wilhelm Guttmann, bass
Bruno Kittel Choir
Berlin State Opera Orchestra
conductor Oskar Fried
