{"id":4839,"date":"2025-03-18T11:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2025-03-18T11:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:37:04","slug":"prazske-jaro-zverejnilo-program-klavirniho-festivalu-rudolfa-firkusneho-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/prazske-jaro-zverejnilo-program-klavirniho-festivalu-rudolfa-firkusneho-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Prague Spring Announces the Programme of\u202fthe\u202fRudolf Firku\u0161n\u00fd Piano Festival 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From 8 to 13 November 2025, the Rudolf Firku\u0161n\u00fd Piano Festival will take place at Prague\u2019s Rudolfinum for the thirteenth time under the auspices of Prague Spring. Making their festival debuts will be Jan Lisiecki, Karel Ko\u0161\u00e1rek, and jazz pianist Ji\u0159\u00ed Lev\u00ed\u010dek. A recital by Yulianna <\/strong>Avdeeva will commemorate this year\u2019s important anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich, and one of the world\u2019s most original pianists, Arcadi Volodos, will return to Prague with works by Schubert, Schumann, and Liszt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast year\u2019s nearly sold-out edition once again demonstrated how popular the piano recital genre is with Czech audiences. This year, we can look forward to another fascinating journey through the world\u2019s piano repertoire, ranging from the Baroque to 20th-century music, featuring both grand Romantic works and intimate miniature forms. We will witness a dialogue across styles and generations. Personally, I am especially looking forward to Jan Lisiecki\u2019s recital. His concert at Prague Spring on 23 May with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra is completely sold out. The Firku\u0161n\u00fd Festival offers the chance to hear his artistry once again in November, in an entirely exceptional repertoire,\u201d says Prague Spring Festival Director Pavel Trojan. <\/strong>\u201cThe Rudolf Firku\u0161n\u00fd Piano Festival 2025 will, in a certain way, be dominated by the prelude form, which in every stylistic period has given composers space to express their most intimate emotions. However, we will also experience an American evening with Karel Ko\u0161\u00e1rek and Ji\u0159\u00ed Lev\u00ed\u010dek, culminating in Dave Brubeck\u2019s jazz composition Points on Jazz<\/em> for two pianos, as well as a performance of Robert Schumann\u2019s and Franz Liszt\u2019s virtuoso works by the legendary Arcadi Volodos. This strong lineup of pianists ranks the Firku\u0161n\u00fd Festival among top-tier international musical events,\u201d adds Prague Spring Programme Director Josef T\u0159e\u0161t\u00edk.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8\/11 Jan Lisiecki<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time, the festival will welcome thirty-year-old Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki<\/strong>, performing a recital titled Preludes<\/em>. \u201cI enjoy programmes that balance the familiar with the unfamiliar,\u201d says Lisiecki. \u201cIn the first half, I will present different composers\u2019 approaches to the prelude form, while in the second, I will offer a cohesive cycle of Chopin\u2019s Preludes, Op. 28<\/em>. What makes this programme unique for me is that even the prelude form, in its natural state and on its own \u2013 without a following fugue \u2013 can lead from somewhere to something. Each piece in the programme has been selected to introduce the one that follows,\u201d explains Lisiecki. Among the composers he will present in the first part of the evening are Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Henryk G\u00f3recki, Olivier Messiaen, and Karol Szymanowski. Lisiecki\u2019s Preludes<\/em> programme has already enjoyed success in the Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall in New York, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris, and BOZAR in Brussels. In Prague, this youngest-ever recipient of the Gramophone Young Artist Award, who has been a leading face of the Deutsche Grammophon label since the age of fifteen, will present it on 8 November 2025 in the Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Hall of the Rudolfinum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/11<\/strong> Yulianna <\/strong>Avdeeva<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second evening of the festival will be dedicated exclusively to the works of Dmitri Shostakovich. Through this exceptional programme, the festival will also commemorate fifty years since the composer\u2019s passing, which falls this August. Yulianna Avdeeva,<\/strong> winner of the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, will perform a selection from the iconic cycle The 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87<\/em>, which Shostakovich composed at the height of the Stalinist era, between 1950 and 1951. He was inspired to write the cycle by Johann Sebastian Bach\u2019s The Well-Tempered Clavier<\/em>, Books One and Two. \u201cStill, I do not want to compare these two cycles, because 24 Preludes and Fugues<\/em> is pure Shostakovich,\u201d says Avdeeva. Only a handful of pianists worldwide have this complete cycle \u2013 one of the most important piano cycles of the 20th century \u2013 in their repertoire, Avdeeva among them. This year, she will present it in venues including the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, and the Palau de la M\u00fasica in Barcelona. A selection from the cycle will be performed in Prague in the Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Hall of the Rudolfinum on 10 November 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12\/11 Karel Ko\u0161\u00e1rek & Ji\u0159\u00ed Lev\u00ed\u010dek<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third evening of the festival will be dedicated to American 20th-century music, spanning from the Impressionist-tinged cycle 3 Tone-Pictures, Op. 5,<\/em> by Charles Tomlinson Griffes, inspired in part by Yeats\u2019 poem The Lake Isle of Inisfree<\/em>, to Copland\u2019s famous El Sal\u00f3n <\/em>M\u00e9xico in Leonard Bernstein\u2019s piano arrangement, Samuel Barber\u2019s Piano Sonata<\/em>, and the electrifying Virtuoso<\/em> \u00c9tudes after Gershwin,<\/em> composed by one of America\u2019s earliest piano virtuosos, Earl Wild. The Czech pianist Karel Ko\u0161\u00e1rek,<\/strong> winner of the Walter Naumburg Competition in New York (1997), will showcase his mastery in these pieces. In the second half of the programme, he will be joined by jazz pianist Ji\u0159\u00ed Lev\u00ed\u010dek,<\/strong> winner of the Phillips International Jazz Competition (2009), for a performance of Dave Brubeck\u2019s Points on Jazz<\/em> for two pianos. An artist with extensive experience in the American jazz scene, Lev\u00ed\u010dek spent several years as a member of the One O\u2019Clock Lab Band, a group nominated multiple times for the Grammy Awards. Czech audiences know him primarily from his work with the Robert Balzar Trio and the B-Side Band. The evening, subtitled \u201cGod Bless American Jazz\u201d, will take place in the Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Hall of the Rudolfinum on 12 November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13\/11 Arcadi Volodos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The festival\u2019s closing night will belong to one of today\u2019s most original pianists, Arcadi Volodos.<\/strong> He previously performed at the Firku\u0161n\u00fd Festival in 2021, when he stunned audiences with his interpretations of Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann. For his return to Prague, he will once again open his recital with Schubert, this time performing his penultimate piano sonata, D.959, composed in the last year of his life. This will be followed by Schumann\u2019s Davidsb\u00fcndlert\u00e4nze, Op. 6<\/em>, a cycle of dances he began composing one week after his secret engagement to Clara Wieck in the summer of 1837. Schumann attributed the composition to his dual artistic alter egos, \u201cFlorestan\u201d and \u201cEusebius\u201d. The recital will culminate in Liszt\u2019s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 in A Minor<\/em> in Volodos\u2019 own arrangement, in which he merges introspective depth in musical structure with breathtaking virtuosity. Arcadi Volodos will conclude the 13th edition of the Rudolf Firku\u0161n\u00fd Piano Festival in the Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Hall of the Rudolfinum on 13 November 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Festival Partners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partners of the 13th edition of the Rudolf Firku\u0161n\u00fd Piano Festival are the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic<\/strong> and the City of Prague.<\/strong> The Official Vehicle of the festival is Mercedes-Benz \u010cesk\u00e1 republika.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ticket Sales<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ticket sales for the 13th edition of the Rudolf Firku\u0161n\u00fd Piano Festival will begin on Wednesday, 19 March, at 11:00 AM. <\/strong>Tickets will be available for purchase online at www.firkusny.cz<\/a>. Until 3 June, an Early Bird discount of 20 % applies to individual ticket purchases. A subscription ticket for all four recitals is also available with a 30% discount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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