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) (piano)

To include music by Jan Zimmer, Pavel Haas and Leoš Janáček

Monday
15 September

19.00

Historic Theatre, Levoča 

Lotz Bassethorn Trio (Slovakia)

Music of Mozart and his contemporaries

Tuesday
16 September

19.00

ZUS, Levoča

Tomasz Kamieniak  (piano) (Poland)

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