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Tadeusz Baird's Symphonies Released on ANAKLASIS

Aug. 25, 2025

Enjoy a timeless encounter with the music of Poland's last Romantic composer, Tadeusz Baird, and explore the history of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Symphonies, a new two-disc album released by ANAKLASIS. Three symphonies, conducted by four outstanding Polish conductors in recent and archival recordings, have been rediscovered and jointly released.

The album is an encounter with the history of the NOSPR orchestra and the music of Tadeusz Baird (1928–1981), one of Poland’s key twentieth-century composers, co-founder of Group’49 and the Warsaw Autumn Festival, as well as a prolific film composer. Baird’s three symphonies, written over the period of two decades (1950–1969), illustrate the evolution of his musical language: his fascination with orchestral sound, with drama and instrumental lyricism, as well as his eminently individual quest for profoundly romantic beauty in sound.

Created on the initiative of conductor Łukasz Borowicz, Symphonies presents various approaches to Baird’s orchestral output: Zbigniew Graca conducting Symphony No. 1 in 1991; Henryk Czyż’s recording of Symphony No. 2 ‘Quasi una fantasia’ made in the then-Stalinogród (Stalin City), as the label on the original tape informs (now it is again the city of Katowice); finally, Łukasz Borowicz’s interpretation of the Third Symphony from 2024. The recordings were made in three venues in Katowice: (Silesian) Plebiscite Street, 2 Silesian Parliament Square, and 1 Wojciech Kilar Square, all by the same radio orchestra from that city, though under its three successive names: WOSPR, WOSPRiTV, and NOSPR. As a bonus, the album notably includes WOSPR’s premiere recording of Symphony No. 1 under Jan Krenz, made in late 1951/early 1952 at the Roma Theatre in Warsaw – priceless as a document of its time.

We believe that this is precisely the kind of project to learn Polish music history from!

The album Symphonies (ANA038) is available at the PWM bookstore, at top music stores and on streaming services.

To learn more about Tadeusz Baird, visit pwm.com.pl.
To learn more about this and other releases by ANAKLASIS, a division of PWM Edition, click here.

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