Sinfonia Varsovia

The Sinfonia Varsovia is an orchestra based in Warsaw, Poland. It was founded in 1984 by Yehudi Menuhin, Waldemar Dąbrowski and Franciszek Wybrańczyk,[1] as a successor to the Polish Chamber Orchestra.[2] Since 2003 the orchestra has been led by Krzysztof Penderecki as its artistic director.[1]

Menuhin had a close relationship with the orchestra that he helped to found, conducting them in the recording of a full cycle of Schubert's symphonies released in 1998.[2] This followed a cycle of live performances of Beethoven's symphonies in 1994. The cycle was recorded and commercially released.[3] Other conductors to have worked with the orchestra include Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Marc Minkowski, Valery Gergiev and Lorin Maazel.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Sinfonia Varsovia". sinfoniavarsovia.org.
  2. 1 2 Greenfield, Edward. "Schubert The Symphonies-Yehudi Menuhin". Gramophone (January 1998).
  3. ↑ "Beethoven: Symphonies (review)". Gramophone (April 1996).
  4. ↑ "Conductors and Soloists". http://www.sinfoniavarsovia.org. External link in |website= (help)
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/19/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.