Programme 2025

The Festival is supported using public funding by the Slovak Arts Council

Wednesday
10 September

19.00

Historic Theatre Levoča

Czech Philharmonic Quartet (Czechia)

Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet op. 18 no. 1 in F
Viktor Ullmann – String Quartet no. 3
Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet no. 8 op. 110

Thursday
11 September

19.00

Historic Theatre, Levoča 

Czech Philharmonic Quartet (Czechia)
Ivan Palovič (viola) (Slovakia)

Joseph Haydn – String Quartet op. 20 no. 5  in f minor
Jakub Jan Ryba – String Quartet in d minor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quintet in C K. 515

Friday 
12 September

19.00

ZUS, Levoča 

Jonathan Powell (UK/PL) (piano) 

Fryderyk Chopin – Largo ‘Boże, coś Polskę’
Maria Szymanowska –  Nocturne ‘Le Murmure’
Fryderyk Chopin – Mazurka op.63 no.2, Tarantella op.43, Nocturne op.32 no.1, Rondo op.16
Karol Szymanowski  – Prelude op.1 no.2, Etude op.4 no.2, Mazurka op.50 nos.1 & 2
Ignacy Paderewski  – Mazurka op.9 no.2, Sarabande op.14 no.2, Krakowiak fantastyczny op.14 no.6
Claude Debussy –  Preludes (selection)
Ignacy Paderewski – Tatra Suite for piano duet (with Irena Powell)

Monday
15 September

19.00

Historic Theatre, Levoča 

Lotz Bassethorn Trio (Slovakia)

Divertimento for basset-horn trio No. 1 in F major (K439b/1)
Divertimento for basset-horn trio No. 3 in F major  (K439b/3)
Suite from ‘The Magic Flute’, K620

Tuesday
16 September

19.00

ZUS, Levoča

Tomasz Kamieniak  (piano) (Poland)

Free concert

Erik Satie – Les Trois Valses distinguées de précieux dégoûté: Embryons desséchés
Maurice Ravel – Une barque sur l’océan (from Miroirs)
Franz Liszt – Valse oubliée No.3 5′
Charles Valentin Alkan – En rythme molossique op.39 Nr.2 
Joachim Raff – Ballade from Drei Klavier-Soli op.74 
Walter Niemann – Ballade (aus alten Zeiten) op.49
Franz Liszt – Magyar rapszódiák No.19 S.242
Tomasz Kamieniak – Drei Berliner Klavierweke op.67 (Slovak Premiere)
Richard Wagner arr. Franz Liszt – Ouverture to ‘Tannhäuser’ S.442

Tuesday
30 September

19.00

Cathedral, Levoča

Choir and Orchestra ‘Le Nuove Musiche’ (Slovakia)
cond. Jörn Hinnerk Andresen (Germany)

Baroque music of Levoca and Venice

Ján Šimrák – Gott stehet in der Gemeinde Gottes
Thomas Gosler – Du hast mir das Herz Genommen
Ján Šimrák  – Omnes gentes plaudite: Congregati sunt inimici nostri: Gaudent in coelis animae sanctorum
Dario Castello – Sonata duodecima a 3
Claudio Monteverdi – Magnificat primo SV281
Ján Šimrák  – O Domine Jesu Christe
Claudio Monteverdi – Et resurrexit SV260: Et iterum SV261: Gloria a 7 SV258 

 

Tickets:  Levoca Information Office, Nám. Majstra Pavla 58, 054 01 LEVOČA, Tel.: +421 53 451 3763

or before each concert, or online at TICKETPORTAL.SK

Ticket prices: 10, 11, 12, 15 September: €5.00 (children €1.00)
                      16 September: Free concert
                      30  September: Standard €12.00: Students, pensioners, disabled, Levoca residents €7.00

A season ticket for all concerts is available at €20.00