Antoni Wit is not a household name. Nonetheless, Antoni Wit, Naxos’ house conductor, has/is the best selling classical conductor, at least according to Grammophone Magazine. Given all the hand wringing over whether classical music is dying it is astonishing to think Wit’s total album sales are in the millions while most labels are content to sell a few thousand copies of a release.
Wit’s output has included benchmark recordings of Lutoslawski, Szymanowski and Penderecki. He has also produced some pretty fine Brahms, Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Messiaen, and Mahler recordings as well.
A quick scan through my own cd and mp3 collection showed I have helped rack up album sales for this under recognized Polish conductor.
