WIT, ANTONI

Antoni Wit, one of the most highly regarded Polish conductors, studied conducting with Henryk Czyz and composition with Krzysztof Penderecki at the Academy of Music in Kraków, subsequently continuing his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He also graduated in law at the Jagellonian University in Kraków. Immediately after completing his studies he was engaged as an assistant at the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra by Witold Rowicki and was later appointed conductor of the Poznan Philharmonic, collaborated with the Warsaw Grand Theatre, and from 1974 to 1977 was artistic director of the Pomeranian Philharmonic, before his appointment as director of the Polish Radio and Television Orchestra and Chorus in Kraków, from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 to 2000 he was the director of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, and from 1987 to 1992 he was the chief conductor and then first guest conductor of Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria. In 2002 he became General and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. His international career has brought engagements with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas and the Near and Far East. He has made more than a hundred and fifty records, including an acclaimed release for Naxos of the piano concertos of Prokofiev, awarded the Diapason d’Or and Grand Prix du Disque de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque. In January 2002 his recording of the Turangalîla Symphony by Olivier Messiaen (8.554478-79) was awarded the Cannes Classical Award in Midem Classic 2002. In 2004 he received the Classical Internet Award and was nominated for a Grammy for his Naxos recording of Penderecki’s St Luke Passion (8.557149), with a further nomination in 2005 for Penderecki’s Polish Requiem (8.557386-87). Antoni Wit is a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

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101 CLASSICS - The Best Loved Classical Melodies	8.508004
ADAGIO - The Ultimate Collection	8.570015-16
ADAGIO 2	8.553841
ALBINONI / BARBER / HANDEL (UK)	8.554584
ALBINONI / MOZART / BACH: Famous Adagios	8.571077
AUDIO REFERENCE - 24K	8.550481G
BARTOK (THE BEST OF)	8.556693
BARTOK: Bela Bartok - A Portrait (JOHNSON)	8.558200-01
BARTOK: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2	8.554321
BEETHOVEN, L. van: Piano Concertos, Vol. 1 (Biret) - Nos. 1, 2 (Biret Beethoven Edition, Vol. 3)	8.571253
BEST OF NAXOS 9 (THE)	8.551202
BRAHMS / MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concertos	8.554675
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1 / SCHUMANN: Introduction and Concerto-Allegro	8.553182
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1 / SCHUMANN: Introduction and Concerto-Allegro	8.554088
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 / SCHUMANN: Introduction and Allegro appassionato	8.554089
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 / SCHUMANN: Introduction and Concert-Allegro	8.571017
CHILL WITH RAVEL	8.556789
CHILL WITH TCHAIKOVSKY	8.556785
CINEMA CLASSICS	8.571090
CINEMA CLASSICS 2007	8.556834
CINEMA CLASSICS, Vol. 1	8.551151
CINEMA CLASSICS, Vol. 1	8.556621
CLASSICAL MOMENTS 2: Classical Music for Love	8.555358
Classical Music From TV Advert	8.554589
CLASSICS AT THE MOVIES: DIVAS	8.556806
Classics at the Movies: Love	8.556805
Classics at the Movies: Sci-Fi	8.556801
CLASSICS FOR LOVERS	8.570013-14
Classics from the Movies	8.554576
DISCOVER CHORAL MUSIC	8.558198-99
DISCOVER FILM MUSIC	8.558210-11
Discover Music of the Romantic Era	8.558155-56
Discover Music of the Twentieth Century	8.558168-69
Discover the Classics, Vol. 2	8.554246-47
DISCOVER THE CLASSICS, VOL. 3: The Concerto	8.554486-87
DISCOVER THE SYMPHONY (1998 edition)	8.554337-38
DISCOVER THE SYMPHONY (2008 edition)	8.558208-09
DVORAK (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552139-40
DVORAK: Hero's Song (A) / Czech Suite / Hussite Overture	8.553005
DVORAK: Piano Concerto in G minor / BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"	8.554676
DVORAK: Piano Concerto, Op. 33 / The Water Goblin	8.550896
EXPLOSIVE CLASSICS	8.554581
Family Symphony	8.557479DX
FAMOUS SYMPHONIC POEMS, VOL. 1	8.553243
FRANCK / RAVEL / RESPIGHI : Piano Concertos	8.554679
GORECKI: Symphony No. 2 / Beatus vir	8.555375
GORECKI: Symphony No. 3 / Three Olden Style Pieces	8.550822
KARLOWICZ, M.: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 1 (Wit) - Stanislaw i Anna Oswiecimowie / Rapsodia litewska / Epizod na maskaradzie	8.570452
KARLOWICZ, M.: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 2 (Wit) - Powracajace fale / Smutna opowiesc / Odwieczne piesni	8.570295
KILAR: Angelus / Exodus / Krzesany	8.554788
KILAR: Bogurodzica / Piano Concerto / Hoary Fog / Koscielec 1909	8.557813
KILAR: Bram Stoker's Dracula / Death and the Maiden	8.225153
KILAR: Bram Stoker's Dracula / Death and the Maiden / King of the Last Days	8.557703
LA CELLISSIMA	8.551094
Lark Ascending (The): Violin Showpieces	8.553509
LUTOSLAWSKI (THE BEST OF)	8.556692
LUTOSLAWSKI: Symphony No. 2 / Little Suite / Symphonic Variations / Piano Concerto	8.553169
LUTOSLAWSKI: 20 Polish Christmas Carols / Lacrimosa / 5 Songs	8.555994
LUTOSLAWSKI: Cello Concerto / Livre pour orchestre / Novelette / Chain III	8.553625
LUTOSLAWSKI: Concerto for Orchestra / 3 Poems by Henri Michaux / Mi-Parti / Overture for Strings	8.553779
LUTOSLAWSKI: Double Concerto for Oboe and Harp / Dance Preludes / Chain I	8.555763
LUTOSLAWSKI: Preludes and Fugue for Solo Strings / Postludes / Fanfares	8.555270
LUTOSLAWSKI: Symphony No. 1 / Chantefleurs et Chantefables	8.554283
LUTOSLAWSKI: Symphony No. 3 / Paganini Variations	8.553423
LUTOSLAWSKI: Symphony No. 4 / Violin Partita / Chain II / Funeral Music	8.553202
MAGIC OF SPRING (THE)	8.557785
MAHLER: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 10	8.550525-26
MAHLER: Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection'	8.550523-24
MAHLER: Symphony No. 4	8.550527
MAHLER: Symphony No. 5	8.550528
MAHLER: Symphony No. 6, ' Tragic '	8.550529-30
MAHLER: Symphony No. 8, 'Symphony of a Thousand'	8.550533-34
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 4 / TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, 'Pathetique'	8.553230
MESSIAEN: Turangalila Symphony / L'ascension	8.554478-79
MOSZKOWSKI: Piano Concerto in E Major / From Foreign Lands	8.553989
Music for Kids CD 7: Music from Planet Earth	8.558020
MUSIC TO DIE FOR	8.557411
MY COUNTRY	8.550931G
NAXOS 15TH ANNIVERSARY CD	8.555964
Naxos Audiophile Kingdom	8.554915DX
PADEREWSKI: Piano Concerto / Polish Fantasy	8.554020
PENDERECKI (Eternal)	8.572134
PENDERECKI, K.: Concerto Grosso No. 1 for 3 Cellos / Largo / Sonata for Cello and Orchestra (Monighetti, Noras, Kwiatkowski, Wit)	8.570509
PENDERECKI: Polish Requiem (A)	8.557386-87
PENDERECKI: Seven Gates of Jerusalem, 'Symphony No. 7'	8.557766
PENDERECKI: St. Luke Passion	8.557149
PENDERECKI: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5	8.554567
PENDERECKI: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4	8.554492
PENDERECKI: Symphony No. 3 / Threnody	8.554491
PENDERECKI: Symphony No. 8 / Dies irae / Aus den Psalmen Davids	8.570450
PENDERECKI: Te Deum / Hymne an den Heiligen Daniel / Polymorphia / Ciaconna	8.557980
PENDERECKI: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2	8.555265
PERFECT ROMANCE	8.570029
Polish Heart (The)	8.554774
PROKOFIEV (Eternal)	8.572079
PROKOFIEV (THE BEST OF)	8.556681
PROKOFIEV, S.: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 3 and 4 (Paik, Polish National Radio Symphony, Wit)	8.550566
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 5	8.550565
PROKOFIEV: Sergey Prokofiev - A Portrait (HART)	8.558202-03
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Sonata in D Major	8.553494
RACHMANINOV (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552113-14
RACHMANINOV / SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concertos	8.554677
RACHMANINOV : Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3	DVDI 1017
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4	8.550809
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini	8.554477
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3	8.550810
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3	8.554376
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3	8.571055
RACHMANINOV: Piano Works (Bernd Glemser)	8.551057-58
RAVEL (THE BEST OF)	8.556673
RAVEL (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552125-26
RAVEL: Bolero / Daphnis et Chloe / Piano Concerto / Ma mere l'oye	8.553276
RAVEL: Piano Concertos / FALLA: Nights in Gardens of Spain	8.550753
SAINT-SAENS (THE BEST OF)	8.556675
SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No. 3 / Piano Concerto No. 2	8.553277
SAINT-SAENS: Violin Concerto No. 3 / Caprice Andalous	8.550752
SCHUMANN, R.: Piano Concerto in A minor / Introduction and Allegro appassionato	8.557547
SCHUMANN, R.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3	8.553082
SCHUMANN, R.: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4	8.550923
SENTIMENTAL CLASSICS	8.550227DX
SHOSTAKOVICH (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552129-30
SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2	8.550813
SHOSTAKOVICH: Dmitry Shostakovich - A Portrait (WHITEHOUSE)	8.558188-89
SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2	8.550814
SMETANA: Ma Vlast (My Country)	8.550931
SORCERER'S APPRENTICE AND OTHER ORCHESTRAL FAVOURITES	8.554066
STRAUSS, R.: Alpensinfonie (Eine) (An Alpine Symphony)	8.557811
STRINGS (Eternal)	8.578027
SZYMANOWSKI, K.: Stabat Mater / Veni Creator / Litany to the Virgin Mary / Demeter / Penthesilea (Wit)	8.570724
SZYMANOWSKI: King Roger	8.660062-63
SZYMANOWSKI: King Roger / Prince Potemkin	8.223339-40
SZYMANOWSKI: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 (Wit)	8.570721
SZYMANOWSKI: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Nocturne and Tarantella	8.557981
TCHAIKOVSKY (THE BEST OF)	8.556652
TCHAIKOVSKY (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552117-18
TCHAIKOVSKY : Symphony No. 6 / Eugene Onegin (Excerpts)	DVDI 1010
TCHAIKOVSKY: Fantasias after Shakespeare	8.553017
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Concert Fantasy, Op. 56	8.550820
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3	8.550819
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 3 / The Tempest	8.550518
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 / The Storm	8.550716
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, 'Pathetique'	8.550782
Ten Years Of Success	8.554103
WEBER, C.M. von: Overtures (New Zealand Symphony, Wit)	8.570296
WIENIAWSKI: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Faust Fantasy	8.553517