Antoni Wit
50 top tracks
Antoni Wit
50 top tracks
Albums
I Love the 80s, Vol. 1 (1880s)
Antoni Wit
Penderecki: Sinfoniettas - Oboe Capriccio
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Kilar: Bram Stoker's Dracula / Death And The Maiden / King Of The Last Days
Antoni Wit
Górecki: Symphony No. 3 ("Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"); Three Olden Style Pieces
Antoni Wit
Penderecki: Orchestral Works Vol. 1
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Penderecki, K.: Polish Requiem (A)
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Penderecki: Te Deum - Hymne an den Heiligen Daniel - Polymorphia
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Wojciech Kilar: Angelus; Exodus; Krzesany
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100 Best 20th Century Classics
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Smetana: Ma Vlast (My Country)
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Penderecki: Symphony No. 3 / Threnody
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Penderecki, K.: Utrenja
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Biography
Antoni Wit (born 1944, Kraków) is a Polish conductor. He is the present musical director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra....Read more on Last.fm
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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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Antoni+Wit">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
