Antoni Wit

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... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

A former Music Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic, Noskowski was also one of the most prominent Polish composers of the late nineteenth century, but recordings of his music are few and far... — Presto Music, August 2023 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A distinguished Penderecki interpreter, Antoni Wit – who has recorded more of the composer’s music than anyone else – now adds the Symphony No. 6 to his otherwise complete set of the symphonies,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There are many attractive aspects to this performance, not least the heroic tenor of Timothy Bench and the full-throated singing of the sopranos and altos. Too often, however, the delivery of... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…