Scarlatti and Szymanowski, Chopin and Schönberg… During Pianophonies, we will see and hear the piano in various contexts and guises. Among the festival's distinguished guests are Ronan O'Hora – an artist associated with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, who will open the festival with a cross-section of works from Papa Haydn to the father of dodecaphony – and Bronisław Kawalla, who will lead a master class for students of the Academy of Music in Kraków. The program also includes evenings entitled Form, Style, Expression: Beethoven – Rossini – Liszt and student performances of Szymanowski! and Scarlatti! The event will conclude with a recital by Katarzyna Drogosz entitled Mozart – Four Generations: works by the most famous member of the family, Wolfgang Amadeus, his father Leopold, his son Franz Xaver, and the latter's student Julia Baroni-Cavalcabó.
Monday 25 May 2026, 7pm
Florianka Recital Hall
Inauguration recital
Joseph Haydn – Sonata in C major Hob. XVI:48
Johannes Brahms – Sonata in F minor, Op. 5
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Arnold Schönberg – Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19
Richard Wagner / Franz Liszt – Isoldens Liebestod z „Tristana i Isoldy”
Fryderyk Chopin – Sonata in B minor, Op. 58
Ronan O’Hora piano
Tuesday 26 May 2026, 7pm
Florianka Recital Hall
Szymanowski!
Piano works by Karol Szymanowski interpreted by the students of the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music
Wedensday 27 May 2026, 7pm
Florianka Recital Hall
Scarlatti!
Piano sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti interpreted by the students of the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music
Thursday 28 May 2026, 7pm
Florianka Recital Hall
Form, Style, Expression: Beethoven – Rossini – Liszt
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 “Quasi una fantasia”
Gioachino Rossini / Ferenc Liszt – Wilhelm Tell overture, S.552
Ludwig van Beethoven – Ritterballett WoO 1
Ludwig van Beethoven / Ferenc Liszt – Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, mvt. 2: Allegretto S.464/7
Ferenc Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C sharp minor S.244/2
Carl Petersson piano
Saturday 30 May 2026, 5pm
Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music
Lecture: American Piano Music
Prof. Piotr Folkert
Saturday 30 May 2026, 7pm
Florianka Recital Hall
Mozart – Four Generations
Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) – Sonata in C major
Wolfgang Amadeusz Mozart (1756-1791) – Rondo in F major KV 494
Wolfgang Amadeusz Mozart – Sonata in F major KV 533
Franz Xaver Mozart (1791-1844) – Rondo in F major FXWM VII:1
Julia Baroni-Cavalcabó (1813-1887) – Variations in A major on the Theme of the Aria “La ci darem la mano” from Mozart’s „Don Giovanni”, Op. 1
Katarzyna Drogosz historic piano (Robert Brown based on the instrument by Michael Rosenberger from approx. 1805)
