Program of the 2023 International Piano Duet Festival Duettissimo! in
Krakow.
/7. Miedzynarodowy Festiwal
Duetow Fortepianowych Duettissimo!/
April 14th - April 22nd, 2023
Note: things keep changing, so take into account, please,
that the following program is liable to alterations.
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April 14th, Friday |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
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7:30
p.m. |
Poland’s pianists Magdalena Lisak and Bartlomiej Kominek plus Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra render Claude Debussy’s Afternoon of a Faun, Francis Poulenc’s concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor, and Hector Berlioz’s symphony in C minor op. 14 (admission 65 PLN).
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Filharmonia
Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street. |
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April 15th, Saturday |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
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6:00
p.m. |
Poland’s pianists Magdalena Lisak and Bartlomiej Kominek plus Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra render Claude Debussy’s Afternoon of a Faun, Francis Poulenc’s concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor, and Hector Berlioz’s symphony in C minor op. 14 (admission 65 PLN).
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Filharmonia
Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street. |
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April 16th, Sunday |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
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noon |
Concert of new classical music for two pianos features Poland’s SONAMI PIANO DUO and NOVI PIANO DUO (free
admission).
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Akademia Muzyczna conservatory at 43 sw. Tomasza
street. |
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April 17th, Monday |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
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4:00
p.m. |
Duos of Krakow’s young pianists play Muzio Clementi’s sonata no. 2 in F for two pianos op. 26, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker suite op. 71a, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s sonata in B for four hands KV 358, Astor Piazzolla’s Adios Nonino, Camille Saint-Saens’s Danse macabre op. 40, and Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki’s Toccata for two pianos op. 2 (free
admission).
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Akademia Muzyczna conservatory at 43 sw. Tomasza
street. |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
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7:30
p.m. |
Belgium’s duo of pianists Chiara Alaimo and Fiona Alaimo render Franz Schubert’s Allegro in A minor ‘Lebenssturme’ D 947, Roman Maciejewski’s Oberek, Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and Johannes Brahms’s sonata in F minor for two pianos op. 34b . |
Filharmonia
Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street. |
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April 18th, Tuesday |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
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7:00
p.m. |
Concert Ravellissimo features piano duos Milena Kedra and Michal Dziad, Renata Zelobowska and Mateusz Kurcab, Aleksandra Pazdyga-Chojnacka and Michal Chojnacki (Aleami Piano Duo), Lily Phee and Emanuel Manuch, Monika Wilinska-Tarcholik and Slawomir Cierpik playing – respectively – Maurice Ravel’s Rhapsodie espagnole, La valse, Introduction et allegro, Ma mere l’Oye, Daphnis et Chloe (free admission). |
Akademia Muzyczna conservatory at 43 sw. Tomasza
street. |
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April 19th, Wednesday |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
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4:00
p.m. |
Duos of Krakow’s young pianists play Johannes Brahms’s Hungarian Dances, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s sonata in B for four hands KV 358, Ernesto Lecuona’s Andalucia Suite part 6 ‘Malaguena, Witold Lutoslawski’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini, and Franz Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor for four hands op. 103 D. 940 (free admission). |
Akademia Muzyczna conservatory at 43 sw. Tomasza
street. |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
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7:30
p.m. |
Concert of piano music features Duo Siloti of German’s pianist Olga Monakh and France’s pianist Nicolas Bringuier playing Claude Debussy’s Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune, Camille Saint-Saens’s Scherzo op. 87, Emmanuel Chabrier’s Trois valses romantiques, Aleksander Tansman’s Fantaisie sur des valses de Johann Strauss, Francis Poulenc’s Capriccio, Paul Dukas’s L’apprenti sorcier, Jean Francaix’s 8
danses exotiques, and Darius Milhaud’s Scaramouche. |
Filharmonia
Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and
Straszewskiego street. |
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April 20th, Thursday |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
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4:00
p.m. |
Duos of Krakow’s young pianists play Franz Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor for four hands op. 103 D940, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s Allegro Brillante (Duetto) in A op. 92 MWV T 4, Samuel Barber’s Souvernirs op. 28, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s suite no. 1 op. 5 (Fantaisie-tableaux) for two pianos (free admission). |
Akademia Muzyczna conservatory at 43 sw. Tomasza
street. |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
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7:00
p.m. |
Concert of piano music features Poland’s duo of pianists Pawel Kubica and Piotr Machnik rendering Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s sonata in C KV 545 plus Claude Debussy’s Petite Suite and Six epigraphes antiques, followed by Aleksandra Pazdyga-Chojnacka and Michal Chojnacki (Aleami Piano Duo) playing Witold Friemann’s concerto for two pianos solo op. 260 and Zygmunt Noskowski’s Fantazja goralska op.
17 (free admission). |
Akademia Muzyczna conservatory at 43 sw. Tomasza
street. |
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April 21st, Friday |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
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7:00
p.m. |
Volt/Potenza Piano Duo of Norway’s pianist Oda Voltervik and Italy’s Giulio Potenza render Maria Szymanowska’s Grande valse pour le pianoforte a quatre mains, Cecile Chaminade’s 6 Pieces romantiques op. 55, Bedrich Smetana’s Ma Vlast: Vltava (The Moldau), Edvard Grieg’s In Autumn Ouverture op. 11, and George Gershwin’s 3 Preludes
(transcribed for piano four hands by Gregory Stone) (free admission). |
Akademia Muzyczna conservatory at 43 sw. Tomasza
street. |
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April 22nd, Saturday |
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Hour |
Event |
Venue |
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7:00
p.m. |
Poland’s K2 Piano Duo of pianists Karolina Kisiak and Kinga Kaczmarczyk play Johann Sebastian Bach’s concerto in C minor for two pianos BWV 1060, followed by piano duo of Italy’s Luca Rasca and Belgium’s Patrick Dheur plus Festival Orchestra rendering Henryk Czyz’s Canzona di barocco for string orchestra, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Grosse fuge op. 133, and Patrick Dheur’s Concerto Metamorphique for
four hands and string orchestra. |
Akademia Muzyczna conservatory at 43 sw. Tomasza
street. |
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