Festival Program 2025

The 2025 Festival Les Nuits Pianistiques of Aix-en-Provence program

33rd Les Nuits Pianistiques festival at the Campra auditorium

Tuesday 29 July 2025 at 7.30 pm

Piano recital Jean Dubé
Grieg, Suite Holberg opus 40
Albeniz, Songs of Spain opus 232 (selection: Prelude, Orientale, Cordoba, Seguidillas)
Chopin, Barcarolle opus 60
Entracte
Wagner/Liszt, Recitative and Romance from the Star of Tannhauser
Verdi/Liszt, Paraphrase on Rigoletto
Mozart/Liszt, Reminiscences of Don Juan

Wednesday 30 July 2025 at 7.30 pm

Piano recital Gianluca Luisi
Chopin, 24 Preludes and 4 Ballades

Thursday 31 July 2025 at 7.30 pm

Chamber music evening
Dvorak, Dumky Trio No. 4 Op. 90 in E minor
Beethoven, Trio ‘The Spirits’ No. 1 Op. 70 in D major
Piano: Nikita Mndoyants
Violin: Pierre Stéphane Schmidlet
Cello: Véronique Marin

Friday 01 August 2025 at 7.30 pm

Piano recital Frédéric Aguessy
Beethoven, Sonata quasi una fantasia n° 2 opus 27 in C sharp minor
Schubert, Sonate D 894 opus 78 in G major
Entracte
Chopin, Prélude n° 16 opus 28 in B flat minor, Nocturne n° 2 opus 9 in E flat major, Prélude n° 17 opus 28 in A flat major, Etude No 7 Opus 25 in C sharp minor, Prelude No 15 Opus 28 in D flat major, Mazurka No 2 Opus 33 in D major, Prelude No 7 Opus 28 in A major, Waltz No 2 Opus 34 in A minor, Prelude No 3 Opus 28 in G major, Ballade No 4 Opus 52 in F minor

Saturday 02 August 2025 (time, venue and program to be confirmed)

Trainee concerts

BOOKING

Tuesday 05 August 2025 at 7.30 pm

Flute and guitar evening
Piazzola, Histoire du Tango
Tarrega, Recuerdos de l’Alhambra, La Gran Jota
Ibert, Entr’acte
Bach, Sonate en la mineur
Bizet/Borne, Carmen Fantaisie
Flute: Jean Ferrandis,
Guitar: Emmanuel Rossfelder

Wednesday 06 August 2025 at 7.30 pm

Piano Recital Marta Zabaleta
Scarlatti, Three Sonatas K32 in D minor, K492, D major, K27 B minor
Soler, Three Sonatas in C minor, C sharp minor, F sharp major
Granados, Excerpts from the Goyescas suite, ‘Requiebros’, ‘Quejas o la maja y el ruiseñor’, ‘El Pelele’
Donostia, Three Basque preludes, Improvisation on a Basque theme, Dans la forêt, Danse des garçons
Albéniz, Iberia, first section, Evocación, ‘El puerto’, ‘Corpus Christi en Sevilla’

Thursday 07 August 2025 at 7.30 pm

Clarinet and piano evening
Schumann, Fantasiestücke opus 73
Beethoven, Variations opus 34 in F major
Brahms, Intermezzi opus 118
Brahms, Sonata for clarinet and piano no. 2 opus 120
Piano: Natalia Troull
Clarinet: Pascal Moragues

Friday 8 August 2025 at 7.30 pm

Evening with Orchestre des jeunes Magna Grecia
Bizet, Symphony No. 2 Op. 11 in C major, known as ‘Roma’
Mozart, Concerto No. 20 in D minor
Verdi, Joan of Arc Symphony
Conductor: Piero Romano
Piano: Vasco Dantas

Saturday 09 August 2025 (time, venue and program to be confirmed)