A little while ago I found this live performance on YouTube of Nowowiejski's oratorio "The Discovery of the Holy Cross", and I absolutely love this piece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-szNgI05ZA
Nowowiejski is definitely one of my favourite unsung composers.
I find it difficult to compare Nowowiejski's music to other composers, but for a Polish composer his music sounds quite German!
There's definitely a lot of Wagnerian influence here, Brucknerian (or perhaps Mahlerian?) orchestration, and some fragments here and there remind me of Richard Strauss too. I especially love the finale of this piece, because that's where you can hear Nowowiejski at his best. He pulls out all the stops with a grand finale!
Thanks for this, it's quite a find.
Evidently there's a Blu-ray...
(https://www.sinfoniavarsovia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2_dca35d4674a32764d1da81ad18c730db.jpg)
https://www.sinfoniavarsovia.org/dyskografia/feliks-nowowiejski-kreuzauffindung/
No idea how to order it, though.