Antoni Wit
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Brahms: Violin Concerto & Double Concerto
Tianwa Yang (violin), Gabriel Schwabe (cello)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Antoni Wit
She has technique to spare, produces a gloriously open sonority on her 1730 Guarneri del Gesù, and possesses a vibrant musical personality ideal for the recording studio. The clarity of her... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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This is a magnificent record. The Weimar Staatskapelle are rare visitors to disc, but they are a top-class orchestra, with superb strings which sound overwhelmingly, sensuously beautiful in... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, Editor's Choice
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Szymanowski - Stabat Mater
Iwona Hossa (soprano), Ewa Marciniec (mezzo-soprano) & Jaroslaw Brek (baritone), Ewa Marciniec (mezzo-soprano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Antoni Wit
Antoni Wit and his players undoubtedly have the measure of this music, but it is the singing of the soprano Iwona Hossa that lends this disc its special distinction… superb value. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Choral Finalist
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Szymanowski - Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2
Ilya Kaler (violin)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
Ilya Kaler is a near ideal interpreter of these works and the delightful Nocturne and Tarantella which serve as makeweight. His playing certainly has the requisite passion, but he also has... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2007, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Barbara Kubiak - Soprano I (Magna Peccatrix), Izabela Klosinska - Soprano II (Una Poenitentium), Marta Boberska - Soprano III (Mater Gloriosa), Jadwiga Rappé - Alto I (Mulier Samaritana), Ewa Marciniec - Alto II (Maria Aegyptica), Timothy Bentch - Tenor (Doctor Marianus), Wojtek Drabowicz - Baritone...
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Dvořák: Requiem, Op. 89
Christiane Libor (soprano), Ewa Wolak (alto), Daniel Kirch (tenor) & Janusz Monarcha (bass)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Antoni Wit
The Warsaw Philharmonic Choir are in fine collective voice...The quartet of soloists are magnificent...Orchestrally, this is a stunning performance. Perfectly blended woodwind are clearly focused... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Szymanowski - Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3
Ewa Marczyk (violin solo), Ryszard Minkiewicz (tenor)
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Antoni Wit
Szymanowski's Symphony No. 2 shows him beginning to approach his first maturity as a composer… In Symphony No. 3, composed five years later, the mature Szymanowski has arrived. Again, this... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26, etc.
Kun Woo Paik (piano)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit
An outstanding bargain. —
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Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5
Kun Woo Paik (piano)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit
Performances which leave most full-price versions standing. —
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Special offer. Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust, WoO 3
Iwona Hossa (soprano I), Christiane Libor (soprano II), Anna Luban´ska (alto I), Ewa Marciniec (alto II), Daniel Kirch (tenor), Jaakko Kortekangas (baritone) & Andrew Gangestad (bass)
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra & Warsaw Boys’ Choir, Antoni Wit
Wit's new version concedes little or nothing to Harnoncourt except sound - excellent, nevertheless - and improves on his interpretation with less mannered, more natural pacing. The soloists... —
