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Antoni Wit

Antoni Wit

Antoni Wit has been played on NTS in shows including Coby Sey, featured first on 26 November 2017. Songs played include Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs), Angelus and Má Vlast (My Country), Symphonic Poems.

Antoni Wit (born 1944, Kraków) is a Polish conductor. He is the present musical director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Wit graduated from Kraków's State Higher School of Music, studying conducting under Henryk Czyz and composition under Krzysztof Penderecki, going on to study under Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Wit has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and in London the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has recorded over 90 albums, most of them for the Naxos label, and specializes in the works of Polish composers such as Henryk Gorecki, Wojciech Kilar, Krzysztof Meyer, Witold Lutosławski and Krzysztof Penderecki. Wit received a Cannes Classical Award for his album of Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony, and high acclaim has also been granted to his recording of Bedřich Smetana's Má vlast cycle. Wit currently teaches at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.

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Antoni Wit

Antoni Wit has been played on NTS in shows including Coby Sey, featured first on 26 November 2017. Songs played include Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs), Angelus and Má Vlast (My Country), Symphonic Poems.

Antoni Wit (born 1944, Kraków) is a Polish conductor. He is the present musical director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Wit graduated from Kraków's State Higher School of Music, studying conducting under Henryk Czyz and composition under Krzysztof Penderecki, going on to study under Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Wit has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and in London the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has recorded over 90 albums, most of them for the Naxos label, and specializes in the works of Polish composers such as Henryk Gorecki, Wojciech Kilar, Krzysztof Meyer, Witold Lutosławski and Krzysztof Penderecki. Wit received a Cannes Classical Award for his album of Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony, and high acclaim has also been granted to his recording of Bedřich Smetana's Má vlast cycle. Wit currently teaches at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.

Original source: Last.fm

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Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs)
Górecki, Zofia Kilanowicz, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit
Naxos1994
Angelus
Wojciech Kilar, Hasmik Papian, Cracow Philharmonic Chorus, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit
Naxos2001
Má Vlast (My Country), Symphonic Poems
Smetana, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice), Antoni Wit
Naxos1994
Lento (Tempo I)
Penderecki, Grigori Zhislin, Tatjana Vassiljeva, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
Naxos2011
Cello Concerto No. 1 In E Flat Major, Op. 107
Shostakovich, Maria Kliegel, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit
Naxos1996