Oskar Fried Archive
Oskar Fried = LISZT: Les Preludes; STRAVINSKY: The Firebird Suite; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade – Berlin Philharmonic Orch./ Oskar Fried – Pristine Audio
Oskar Fried was the Michael Powell of the conducting world, a supreme colorist whose appeal to the ear never ceases to ravish.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, “Choral” – Soloists/ Bruno Kittel Choir/ Berlin State Opera Orch./ Oskar Fried – Pristine
Music for the Season, any season, given Fried’s intensely committed and good-sounding 1928 reading of the Beethoven Ninth, magically restored by Mark Obert-Thorn.