The Warsaw Accordeon Quintet, winner of the first prize at the European Chamber Music Festival in Annemasse, France (1972) was funded in 1961 by Wlodzimierz Lech Puchnowski and existed under his leadership until 1989.  The members of the Quintet, leading Polish artists, were graduates of the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw where they studied with him.  The Quintet played in over 1600 concerts all over Europe and Asia, performing at 25 national and international festivals of contemporary music such as "Warsaw Autumn", also making numerous radio and television appearances.  The Quintet's repertoire ranged from baroque figures and canzonas to contemporary compositions written especially for them.  They made four LP and two CD recordings.  Their excellent mastery of technique and style,  feeling, sincerity and spontaneity of playing, their artistic merits and considerable achievements won them universal acclaim and attracted the attention of the music world and music lovers in Poland and abroad.  The quintet plays on the accordian model Giulietti produced especially for its members by the Zero Sette Accordion Factory of Castelfidardo.  The following recordings come directly from different concerts of the Quintet.

Selections:

Aram Khachaturian
1.   Sabre Dance
2.   Waltz
Adam Jarzebski
3.   Tamburetta
Ferenc Farkas
4.   17th century Hungarian Dances
5.   17th century Hungarian Dances
6.   17th century Hungarian Dances
Mozart
7.   Rondo
Leon Boellmann
8.   Gothic Suite
9.   Gothic Suite
10. Gothic Suite
11. Gothic Suite
Modest Musorgsky
12. Scherzo in B-flat major
Igor Stravinsky
13. Russian Dance
Stanislaw Moniuszko/Lech Puchnowski
14. Variations on the song Spinster
Bronislaw Kazimierz Przybylski
15. Asteroides
Andrzej Krzanowski
16. Alkagran
Bronislaw Kazimierz Przybylski
17. Variabile