Nowowiejski: Return of the Prodigal Son / Sułkowski, Warmia and Masuria Philharmonic

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Label
DUX
Release Date
July 1, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Feliks Nowowiejski
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      The Choir Of The Karol Szymanow
    • PERFORMER
      Agnieszka Rehlis, Arnold Rutkowski, Lukasz Konieczny, Marek Pawelek
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 01, 2022
    • UPC
      5902547016931
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      DUX1693
    • LABEL
      DUX
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Overture

      Composer: Feliks Nowowiejski

      Ensemble: Feliks Nowowiejski Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Piotr Sułkowski

    2. Syn (The Son)

      Composer: Feliks Nowowiejski

      Ensemble: Feliks Nowowiejski Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Arnold Rutkowski, Marek Pawełek

      Conductor: Piotr Sułkowski

    3. Matka (The Mother)

      Composer: Feliks Nowowiejski

      Ensemble: Feliks Nowowiejski Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Agnieszka Rehlis, Arnold Rutkowski, Marek Pawełek

      Conductor: Piotr Sułkowski

    4. Ojciec (The Father)

      Composer: Feliks Nowowiejski

      Ensemble: Cracow Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic Choir, Feliks Nowowiejski Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Agnieszka Rehlis, Arnold Rutkowski, Łukasz Konieczny, Marek Pawełek

      Conductor: Piotr Sułkowski


Works by the composer, organist, conductor and organizer of the musical life Feliks Nowowiejski (1877–1946) are relatively rarely performed today, which is why they are little known to a wider audience. Associated with Poznań, the composer of the famous "Rota", among various genre and highly skilled creative works, also left behind a unique Oratorio for solo voices, choir, orchestra and organ, Op. 3 to the libretto by Theobald Rehbaum. The work "Die Heimkehr des Verlorenen Sohnes" ("The Return of the Prodigal Son”) was composed in 1901, during Nowowiejski's studies in Berlin under the supervision of the outstanding composer and conductor Max Bruch. The world premiere of the work took place only in 1993 (the composer himself had never heard the entire work) and since then one of the first oratorios of Polish music has not been performed. Thanks to the DUX label, the recording of the oratorio concert "The Return of the Prodigal Son" in the original language version is available to listeners, recorded by the Symphony Orchestra of the Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic.