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Mieczyslaw Karlowicz’s six symphonic poems feature gobs of Straussian sonority in loosely organized forms, and while Antoni Wit’s performances are actually a touch slower than
Antoni Wit almost always can be relied on to deliver very thoughtful, beautifully musical, even inspired results, and there’s no question that he conducts these
Penderecki’s gripping St. Luke Passion (1966) takes the Passions of Bach as its models, refashioning them in an unrelentingly modernist 20th-century language. The boldly original
In a continent rife with cultural subsidies and nationalistic PR in the performing arts, Eastern Europe seems to be getting drubbed by the West, and
These two violin concertos comprise some of the finest music for violin and orchestra written in the 20th century. They are very different: the First
Antoni Wit’s ongoing cycle of Penderecki orchestral works is yet another of those truly outstanding Naxos projects that’s unlikely to get the attention it deserves.
This 15-disc collection offers fairly comprehensive documentation of the 15th International Chopin Competition that took place between October 2 and 24, 2005 in Warsaw. Discs
Polish record labels have made an industry out of recording Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra, and no wonder: they do it very well. Antoni Wit made
Antoni Wit has made some marvelous recordings for Naxos, including a recent Mahler Eighth that must be counted one of the reference recordings of the
Olga Kern’s fifth release for Harmonia Mundi fuels my reservations concerning her undeniably accomplished yet curiously uninteresting pianism. Her passagework throughout the Chopin E minor
