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Polish musical institution
Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra during La Folle Journée in Nantes, 2009

The Sinfonia Varsovia is an orchestra and a musical institution based in Warsaw, Poland. It was founded in 1984 by Yehudi Menuhin, Waldemar Dąbrowski and Franciszek Wybrańczyk, as a successor to the Polish Chamber Orchestra. From 2003 until his death in 2020, the orchestra was led by Krzysztof Penderecki as its artistic director.

Main building of Sinfonia Varsovia's headquarters (272 Grochowska Street, Warsaw)

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. This followed a cycle of live performances of Beethoven's symphonies in 1994. The cycle was recorded and commercially released. Other conductors to have worked with the orchestra include Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Marc Minkowski, Valery Gergiev and Lorin Maazel.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sinfonia Varsovia". sinfoniavarsovia.org.
  2. ^ Greenfield, Edward. "Schubert The Symphonies-Yehudi Menuhin". Gramophone. No. January 1998. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  3. Osborne, Richard. "Beethoven Symphonies, etc (review)". Gramophone. No. April 1996. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  4. "Conductors and Soloists". sinfoniavarsovia.org.
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