五月號英國Gramophone雜誌上也有一篇文章報導此事，其中重點有：
(1)當年是白建宇與他開完音樂會後，自己主動寫信問Naxos有沒有興趣錄普羅高菲夫鋼琴協奏曲全集，沒料到日後得獎連連，大賣17萬套，從此展開與Naxos間不解之緣，成為Naxos當家頭牌指揮。
(2)記者問他一個有趣的問題：介不介意被定位為「Naxos指揮」，問題背後意思不外乎是廉價的Naxos形象層次不高，其實提問這個問題的記者心態有點問題，但魏特的回答很有智慧：一點也不會呀！我到世界各地演出，很多樂團都非常羨慕我們可以跟Naxos公司合作...
(3)訪問中，魏特如數家珍講到Naxos的CD銷售量，對於自己可以透過錄音，讓波蘭20世紀作曲家作品發揚光大，語氣中帶著些許驕傲之情，他還抱怨說說，像是EMI這些大公司從來不讓我們知道到底賣了多少張（數字應該不太好看就是了）...，但他也說，幫Naxos錄音基本上是在「做功德」，因為不管賣得再多，他也無法從中收取任何紅利。
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這則消息有幾點值得提一提的地方：
1.在Naxos的長期經營下，安東尼魏特已經灌錄超過140張CD，超越等前輩Witold Rowicki等人榮登波蘭指揮家銷售成績一哥。
2.Naxos深耕波蘭作曲家作品，魏特300萬張CD中有1/5都是波蘭作曲家的作品，已經灌錄的波蘭籍作曲家28張CD，包括了Lutosławski作品10張與Penderecki作品8張，而且都在持續進行中，有灌錄兩位作曲家交響或管弦作品全集的打算，甚至也準備與華沙愛樂展開Szymanowski與Karłowicz兩位作曲家的全集錄音，前者第一張作品CD已經在今（2008）年1月完成錄音後發行上市。
3.最早前，魏特曾經幫波蘭前國營唱片公司Polskie Nagrania錄音，1989 東歐民主化浪潮風起雲湧，恰逢Naxos積極在東歐地區尋找價廉物美的錄音樂團，魏特當時擔任波蘭西南工業大城Katowice市的波蘭國家廣播交響管絃樂團（The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Katowice，簡稱PNRSO）藝術總監一職，就陸續幫Naxos公司錄下Tchaikovsky、Rachmaninov、Prokofiev、Mahler等人交響作品基本曲目，在此同時，魏特也沒有忘記替祖國音樂家發聲，一路從Katowice挺進首都波蘭，2002年就任波蘭首屈一指的華沙愛樂交響樂團音樂總監。
Warsaw Philharmonic and the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR) conducted by Antoni Wit - Record sales reach three million
Sales reports published by NAXOS, the leader of the world's classical music market, inform that the company has already sold nearly 3 million CDs recorded by Antoni Wit with NOSPR and Warsaw Philharmonic. More than one fifth of this number are recordings of works by the greatest Polish contemporary composers: H.M. Górecki, W. Kilar, W. Lutosławski.
The NAXOS catalogues cover a wide spectrum of Polish music on 28 CDs. Thanks to these releases, the majority of symphonic and large-scale vocal-instrumental works by these composers has been made available worldwide, as NAXOS is renowned for excellent, global distribution of its products. Many of NAXOS's projects have not been sold in large numbers of copies and have not brought sufficient profit to offset the initial outlay. In spite of this, NAXOS has upheld the decision to release Polish music by the above listed composers in collector sets, and in now has in its catalogue 10 CDs with music by Lutosławski and 8 CDs with works by Penderecki. A complete edition of works by Szymanowski and Karłowicz, recorded with the Warsaw Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, is forthcoming. The recording sessions were completed in January 2008, and the first disc containing both Violin Concertos (with Ilya Kaler as soloist) as well as the Nocturne and Tarantella by Szymanowski has already been released.
Eighty records sold in more than 2,200,000 copies feature music by European composers, as well as film music. The top selling records contain compositions by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Mahler and Ravel. In the previous year, the albums which enjoyed the greatest popularity were those with recordings of Symphony No. 8 by Gustav Mahler (with the Warsaw Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and Choir) and The Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss (with Staatskapelle Weimar), which were highly acclaimed by music critics worldwide.
Antoni Wit has also recorded for such record labels as EMI-HMV, CBS, Decca, NVS Arts, Pony Canyon, Polskie Nagrania, altogether - more than 140 titles. The total sales figures for CDs which feature maestro Wit as conductor are the highest among the Polish conductors and place him on a par with the greatest European artists.
以上摘自華沙國家愛樂網站。
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