POLISH NATIONAL RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1935 in Warsaw through the initiative of the well-known Polish conductor and composer Grzegorz Fitelberg, under whose direction the orchestra worked until the outbreak of World War II. In March 1945 the eminent Polish conductor Witold Rowicki revived it in Katowice, and in 1947 Grzegorz Fitelberg became its artistic director, on his return to Poland. After his death in 1953, the orchestra was headed by some of the best known Polish conductors, including Jan Krenz (1953-68) and Kazimierz Kord (1969-73). From 1983 and for the next seventeen years Antoni Wit was the orchestra's artistic director. In September 2000 Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa was appointed director-manager and for the 2001/2002 season Gabriel Chmura was appointed music director of the orchestra.

The orchestra has made numerous archival recordings for Polish Radio, among them many world première recordings, as a result of cooperation with many Polish and foreign contemporary composers. It has also recorded nearly 160 compact discs for Polish and foreign record companies. The five Piano Concertos by Prokofiev under Antoni Wit with the soloist Kun Woo Paik for Naxos (8.550565 and 8.550566) were awarded the Diapason d'Or and the Grand Prix du Disque de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque 1992. Their recording of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony under Antoni Wit for Naxos (8.554478-79) was awarded the 2002 Cannes Classical Award.

The orchestra has collaborated with leading conductors and soloists and has toured most European countries as well as Iran, Lebanon, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Mongolia, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States, Canada and Brazil, receiving enthusiastic critical and audience acclaim. 

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A TO Z OF OPERA	8.555037-38
ADAGIO - The Ultimate Collection	8.570015-16
ADAGIO 2	8.553841
ALBINONI / BARBER / HANDEL (UK)	8.554584
ALBINONI / MOZART / BACH: Famous Adagios	8.571077
Art & Music: Klimt - Music of His Time	8.558146
Art & Music: Manet - Music of His Time	8.558117
Art & Music: Renoir - Music of His Time	8.558176
Art & Music: Van Gogh - Music of His Time	8.558068
AUDIO REFERENCE - 24K	8.550481G
BARTOK (THE BEST OF)	8.556693
BARTOK: Bela Bartok - A Portrait (JOHNSON)	8.558200-01
BARTOK: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2	8.554321
BEST OF LONDON	8.572098-99
BEST OF NAXOS 9 (THE)	8.551202
BEST OF OPERA, VOL. 4	8.554682
BIZET- BREINER: Carmen Concerto / GRANADOS: Valses Poeticos	8.553114
BRAHMS / MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concertos	8.554675
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1 / SCHUMANN: Introduction and Concerto-Allegro	8.553182
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1 / SCHUMANN: Introduction and Concerto-Allegro	8.554088
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 / SCHUMANN: Introduction and Allegro appassionato	8.554089
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 / SCHUMANN: Introduction and Concert-Allegro	8.571017
CHILL WITH RACHMANINOV	8.556782
CHILL WITH RAVEL	8.556789
CHILL WITH TCHAIKOVSKY	8.556785
Chinese Popular Hits for Piano and Orchestra: If This is Love	8.223585
Chinese Popular Hits for Violin and Orchestra: Love for a Man who Never Comes Home	8.223584
CINEMA CLASSICS	8.571090
CINEMA CLASSICS 2007	8.556834
CINEMA CLASSICS, Vol. 1	8.551151
CINEMA CLASSICS, Vol. 1	8.556621
CINEMA CLASSICS, Vol. 6	8.556626
Cinema Violino - Takako Nishizaki	8.225971HDCD
CLASSICAL MOMENTS 2: Classical Music for Love	8.555358
Classical Music From TV Advert	8.554589
Classical Music Start-Up Kit, Vol. 2: 1825-1945	8.550835
CLASSICS AT THE MOVIES: DIVAS	8.556806
Classics at the Movies: Epics	8.556803
Classics at the Movies: Love	8.556805
Classics at the Movies: Sci-Fi	8.556801
CLASSICS FOR LOVERS	8.570013-14
Classics from the Movies	8.554576
Discover Music of the Romantic Era	8.558155-56
Discover Music of the Twentieth Century	8.558168-69
Discover the Classics, Vol. 2	8.554246-47
DISCOVER THE CLASSICS, VOL. 3: The Concerto	8.554486-87
DISCOVER THE SYMPHONY (1998 edition)	8.554337-38
DISCOVER THE SYMPHONY (2008 edition)	8.558208-09
DVORAK (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552139-40
DVORAK: Hero's Song (A) / Czech Suite / Hussite Overture	8.553005
DVORAK: Piano Concerto in G minor / BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"	8.554676
DVORAK: Piano Concerto, Op. 33 / The Water Goblin	8.550896
DVORAK: Symphonic Poems	8.550598
ELGAR (THE BEST OF)	8.556672
ELGAR (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552133-34
ELGAR: Violin Concerto / Cockaigne Overture	8.550489
EXPLOSIVE CLASSICS	8.554581
Family Symphony	8.557479DX
FAMOUS FRENCH OVERTURES	8.550473
FAMOUS SYMPHONIC POEMS, VOL. 1	8.553243
FRANCK / RAVEL / RESPIGHI : Piano Concertos	8.554679
French Overtures (Famous)	8.553264
GLAZUNOV (THE BEST OF)	8.556687
GLAZUNOV / DVORAK: Violin Concertos in A Minor	8.550758
GLAZUNOV: Violin Concerto in A Minor / The Seasons	8.554049
GORECKI: Symphony No. 2 / Beatus vir	8.555375
GORECKI: Symphony No. 3 / Three Olden Style Pieces	8.550822
GRIEG (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552123-24
GRIEG: Lyric Pieces / RAVEL: Mother Goose / NIELSEN, C.: Alladin Suite / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Mlada / PROKOFIEV: Cinderella Suite	8.557953DK
KILAR: Angelus / Exodus / Krzesany	8.554788
KILAR: Bram Stoker's Dracula / Death and the Maiden	8.225153
KILAR: Bram Stoker's Dracula / Death and the Maiden / King of the Last Days	8.557703
LA CELLISSIMA	8.551094
LALO: Symphonie espagnole / SARASATE: Zigeunerweisen / RAVEL: Tzigane	8.550494
Lark Ascending (The): Violin Showpieces	8.553509
LECUONA: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1	BIS-CD-754
LECUONA: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2	BIS-CD-774
LECUONA: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3	BIS-CD-794
LECUONA: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 4	BIS-CD-874
LISZT (THE BEST OF)	8.556667
LISZT : The Best of Liszt	8.551117
LISZT: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 1	8.550487
LUTOSLAWSKI (THE BEST OF)	8.556692
LUTOSLAWSKI: Symphony No. 2 / Little Suite / Symphonic Variations / Piano Concerto	8.553169
LUTOSLAWSKI: 20 Polish Christmas Carols / Lacrimosa / 5 Songs	8.555994
LUTOSLAWSKI: Cello Concerto / Livre pour orchestre / Novelette / Chain III	8.553625
LUTOSLAWSKI: Concerto for Orchestra / 3 Poems by Henri Michaux / Mi-Parti / Overture for Strings	8.553779
LUTOSLAWSKI: Double Concerto for Oboe and Harp / Dance Preludes / Chain I	8.555763
LUTOSLAWSKI: Preludes and Fugue for Solo Strings / Postludes / Fanfares	8.555270
LUTOSLAWSKI: Symphony No. 1 / Chantefleurs et Chantefables	8.554283
LUTOSLAWSKI: Symphony No. 3 / Paganini Variations	8.553423
LUTOSLAWSKI: Symphony No. 4 / Violin Partita / Chain II / Funeral Music	8.553202
MACABRE MASTERPIECES	8.557930-31
MAGIC OF SPRING (THE)	8.557785
MAHLER: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 10	8.550525-26
MAHLER: Symphony No. 1, 'Titan'	8.550522
MAHLER: Symphony No. 10	8.554811
MAHLER: Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection'	8.550523-24
MAHLER: Symphony No. 4	8.550527
MAHLER: Symphony No. 5	8.550528
MAHLER: Symphony No. 6, ' Tragic '	8.550529-30
MAHLER: Symphony No. 7	8.550531
MAHLER: Symphony No. 9	8.550535-36
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 4 / TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, 'Pathetique'	8.553230
MESSIAEN: Turangalila Symphony / L'ascension	8.554478-79
MOSZKOWSKI: Piano Concerto in E Major / From Foreign Lands	8.553989
Music for Kids CD 7: Music from Planet Earth	8.558020
MUSIC TO DIE FOR	8.557411
MY COUNTRY	8.550931G
NAXOS 15TH ANNIVERSARY CD	8.555964
Naxos Audiophile Kingdom	8.554915DX
NIGHT AT THE OPERA (A)	8.554575
O Sole Mio: Classic Love Songs for Violin and Orchestra	8.223586
ONCE UPON A TIME	8.557953-54
PADEREWSKI: Piano Concerto / Polish Fantasy	8.554020
PAGANINI (THE BEST OF)	8.556680
PAGANINI: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2	8.550649
PAGANINI: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 4	8.571054
PENDERECKI: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5	8.554567
PENDERECKI: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4	8.554492
PENDERECKI: Symphony No. 3 / Threnody	8.554491
PENDERECKI: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2	8.555265
PERFECT ROMANCE	8.570029
Polish Heart (The)	8.554774
PROKOFIEV (Eternal)	8.572079
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 3 and 4	8.550566
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 5	8.550565
PROKOFIEV: Sergey Prokofiev - A Portrait (HART)	8.558202-03
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Sonata in D Major	8.553494
RACHMANINOV (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552113-14
RACHMANINOV / SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concertos	8.554677
RACHMANINOV : Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3	DVDI 1017
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4	8.550809
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini	8.554477
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3	8.550810
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3	8.554376
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3	8.571055
RACHMANINOV: Piano Works (Bernd Glemser)	8.551057-58
RAVEL (THE BEST OF)	8.556673
RAVEL (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552125-26
RAVEL: Bolero / Daphnis et Chloe / Piano Concerto / Ma mere l'oye	8.553276
RAVEL: Piano Concertos / FALLA: Nights in Gardens of Spain	8.550753
ROMANCE	8.553216
SAINT-SAENS (THE BEST OF)	8.556675
SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No. 3 / Piano Concerto No. 2	8.553277
SAINT-SAENS: Violin Concerto No. 3 / Caprice Andalous	8.550752
SCARY MASTERPIECES - Music by Grieg, Liszt, Dvorak, Franck, Ducas, Saint-Saens	8.570362
SCHUMANN : Best of Schumann (The)	8.551112
SCHUMANN, R. (THE BEST OF)	8.556662
SCHUMANN, R.: Overtures	8.550608
SCHUMANN, R.: Piano Concerto in A minor / Introduction and Allegro appassionato	8.557547
SCHUMANN, R.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3	8.553082
SCHUMANN, R.: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4	8.550923
SENTIMENTAL CLASSICS	8.550227DX
SHOSTAKOVICH (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552129-30
SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2	8.550813
SHOSTAKOVICH: Dmitry Shostakovich - A Portrait (WHITEHOUSE)	8.558188-89
SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2	8.550814
SIBELIUS / ELGAR: Violin Concertos	8.553233
SMETANA: Ma Vlast (My Country)	8.550931
SORCERER'S APPRENTICE AND OTHER ORCHESTRAL FAVOURITES	8.554066
SPANISH GUITAR	8.557122-23
SZYMANOWSKI: King Roger	8.660062-63
SZYMANOWSKI: King Roger / Prince Potemkin	8.223339-40
TCHAIKOVSKY (THE BEST OF)	8.556652
TCHAIKOVSKY (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552117-18
TCHAIKOVSKY : Symphony No. 6 / Eugene Onegin (Excerpts)	DVDI 1010
TCHAIKOVSKY: Fantasias after Shakespeare	8.553017
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Concert Fantasy, Op. 56	8.550820
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3	8.550819
TCHAIKOVSKY: Romantic Tchaikovsky (The)	8.552216
TCHAIKOVSKY: Romantic Tchaikovsky (The)	8.570081
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4	8.550488
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 1 / Hamlet Overture	8.550517
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 3 / The Tempest	8.550518
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 / The Storm	8.550716
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, 'Pathetique'	8.550782
Ten Years Of Success	8.554103
THE BEST OF TAKAKO NISHIZAKI	8.223979
VARESE: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 - Arcana / Integrales / Deserts	8.554820
VARESE: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - Ameriques / Equatorial / Nocturnal / Ionisation	8.557882
VARIOUS : Favourite Overtures	8.553263
VERY BEST OF LISZT (THE)	8.552131-32
Viva Espana!	DVDI 1005
WAGNER / LISZT / RAVEL / TCHAIKOVSKY: Orchestral Spectacular	8.571081
WAGNER : The Best of Wagner	8.551107
WAGNER, R. (THE BEST OF)	8.556657
WAGNER, R.: Orchestral Highlights from Operas	8.550498
WIENIAWSKI: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Faust Fantasy	8.553517