Thomas Frost(born March 7, 1925) is a multipleGrammy Award-winningclassical musicproducer,who won many of his awards for producing the albums ofVladimir Horowitz.[1]Frost is the father of producerDavid Frost.[2]
Awards
editHis Grammy wins include:
- 1966,Best Classical AlbumforHorowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return.
- 1972,Best Classical Album forHorowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas),withRichard Killough.
- 1978,Best Classical Album forConcert of the Century,withLeonard Bernstein(conductor),Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,Vladimir Horowitz,Yehudi Menuhin,Mstislav Rostropovich,Isaac Stern,Lyndon Woodsideand theNew York Philharmonic.
- 1987,Best Classical Album forHorowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985.[2]
- 1988,Best Classical Album forHorowitz in Moscow,as well as an awardClassical Producer of the Year.
- 2003award forBest Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)forBrahms/Stravinsky: Violin Concertos,withRichard King(engineer),Neville Marriner(conductor),Hilary Hahnand theAcademy of St. Martin in the Fields.
References
edit- ^Grammy Awards
- ^ab"Like Father, Like Son",Billboard(March 12, 2005), Vol. 117, No. 11, p. 17: "Frost points out that winning a producer Grammy has actually become a family affair: His father, Thomas Frost, counts among his many Grammys the 1986 award for classical producer of the year."
External links
edit- David Dubal interview with Thomas Frost,WNCN-FM, 18-Dec-1981