Thomas Frost (producer)

Thomas Frost
Born	(1925-03-07) March 7, 1925 (age 100) Vienna, Austria
Genres	Classical
Occupation	Record producer
Years active	1976–1999

Thomas Frost (born March 7, 1925) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning classical music producer, who won many of his awards for producing the albums of Vladimir Horowitz. ^[1] Frost is the father of producer David Frost. ^[2]

Frost was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925 and was a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir in his youth. ^[3] He attended the Yale School of Music and studied under Paul Hindemith. ^[4]

Frost worked as a producer for American Decca from 1952 to 1957, during which time his work included producing classical guitarist Andrés Segovia, which Frost described as "torture" due to Segovia's anxieties about getting the recordings exactly right. ^[5]

Awards

His Grammy wins include:

• 1966, Best Classical Album for Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return.
• 1972, Best Classical Album for Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas), with Richard Killough.
• 1978, Best Classical Album for Concert of the Century, with Leonard Bernstein (conductor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Lyndon Woodside and the New York Philharmonic.
• 1987, Best Classical Album for Horowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985. ^{[2] [6]}
• 1988, Best Classical Album for Horowitz in Moscow, as well as an award Classical Producer of the Year.
• 2003 award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) for Brahms/Stravinsky: Violin Concertos, with Richard King (engineer), Neville Marriner (conductor), Hilary Hahn and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

References

1. "Grammy Awards".
2. "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."
3. Day, Timothy (January 1, 2000). "A Century of Recorded Music: Listening to Musical History". Yale University Press – via Google Books.
4. John Harvith, Susan Edwards Harvith, ed. (1987). Edison, Musicians, and the Phonograph: A Century in Retrospect. p. 351.
5. Marrington, Mark (March 30, 2021). "Recording the Classical Guitar". Routledge. p. 114-15 – via Google Books.
6. "Friends Wins Three Grammys", Omaha World-Herald (February 25, 1987), p. 55.

External links

• Thomas Frost discography at Discogs
• Thomas Frost at IMDb  
• David Dubal interview with Thomas Frost, WNCN-FM, 18-Dec-1981