Moniuszko: Overtures Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra & Antoni Wit

• 1 Bajka (The Fairy Tale): Overture 13:26
• 2 Paria: Overture 09:46
• 3 Halka: Overture 08:36
• 4 Verbum nobile: Overture 05:16
• 5 Flis (The Raftsman): Overture 10:02
• 6 Hrabina (The Countess): Overture 09:00
• 7 Straszny dwor (The Haunted Manor): Intrada 04:10
• 8 Jawnuta: Overture 04:11
• 9 Nowy Don Kiszot, czyli Sto szalenstw (The New Don Quixote, or 100 Follies): Overture 07:34
• 10 Kochanka hetmanska: Overture 07:25
• Total Runtime 01:19:26

Info for Moniuszko: Overtures

Stanisław Moniuszko was Poland’s leading opera composer in the 19th century, his work said to ‘bridge the gap between Chopin and Szymanowski’. His skill as a born melodist is apparent in the ‘beautiful and inspired’ overture to Paria, while the dramatic Halka was the work which brought him national acclaim. An affinity with Liszt’s tone poems can be heard in the substantial overture Bajka, while the scene for The Haunted Manor is set with an atmospheric Intrada.

„This collection of operatic overtures stretches across twenty years and is quite charming. The playing and engineering is exemplary…everything is comme il faut from Poland’s capital orchestra and leading conductor. Paul Conway’s notes tell us what we want to know without any opaque and unnecessary musical technicalities.“ (Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International)

„Conductor Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra…team up to give us another memorable Naxos disc of Polish goodies. Moniuszko’s music is very tempo dependent and Wit invariably gets them just right as opposed to conductors on other recordings of these overtures, particularly Flis, who either drag their feet or rush to the finish line. …the recordings are very consistent, and project a wide clearly defined soundstage in a pleasantly reverberant venue.“ (Bob McQuiston, Classical Lost and Found)

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Antoni Wit, conductor

Recorded at Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw, Poland
Produced, engineered and edited by Andrzej Sasin and Aleksandra Nagórko (CD Accord)

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