December, he returned to Vienna, and conducted Mahler's Das klagende Lied. In 1922, he went to the USSR as the first foreign conductor invited to perform after the Russian Revolution, and was greeted by Lenin on the station platform. Following a matinee concert on 23 October 1921 (in the Scala Palace in Berlin) Fried made the first recording (acoustic) of any Mahler symphony, the Second, with the Berlin Staatskapelle, and Emmi Leisner and Gertrud Bindernagel as soloists, cf. announcement in the Berliner Tageblatt, 23 Oct. 1921. (After this concert Fried only again conducted another Mahler symphony in Berlin, on 25 October 1925, the Fourth). However, probably for financial reasons (inflation), the recording of the Second was only released four years later, in early April 1925 (cf. advertisement in the Berliner Tageblatt, 5 April 1925, p. 30). The performance has later been praised as "remarkably successful" and a "highly adventurous undertaking for an acoustic recording" which required "careful planning and experimentation". That same year, he also made the first recording of any complete Bruckner symphony: his Seventh and the first recording of Richard Strauss's Alpine Symphony. In November 1927, at the invitation of the BBC programme planner and his own former student Edward Clark, he made his British conducting debut, in a program of Delius, Weber, Brahms and Liszt in London. Driven from Germany by the anti-Semitism of the Nazi regime in 1933, he emigrated to the Georgian city of Tbilisi in the Soviet Union. He conducted the Tbilisi opera and later the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, eventually becoming a Soviet citizen. He died in Moscow in 1941. Fried’s Compositions The list of Fried’s compositions comprises the following published scores. • 3 Lieder, op. 1 for voice and piano (B. Firnberg, Frankfurt) • Adagio and Scherzo, op. 2 for wind instruments, 2 horns and kettle-drum (Breitkopf & Härtel) • 4 Lieder, op. 3 for voice and piano (A. Dencke, Berlin) • 3 Lieder, op. 4 for voice and piano (A. Dencke, Berlin) • Drei Lieder, op. 5 for voice and piano (Bote & Bock, Berlin 1901) • [7] Leichte vierhändige Klavierstücke, op. 6 for piano four hands (Bote & Bock, Berlin 1901) • Sieben Lieder, op. 7 for voice and piano (J. Hainauer, Breslau 1903) • 3 two-part songs in canon form op. 8 (J. Hainauer, Breslau) • Verklärte Nacht (Rich. Dehmel), op. 9 for mezzo-soprano, tenor and orchestra (Breitkopf &