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The Three Palaces Festival Early Opera & Music Festival is a festival that takes place during the first week of November. Organised by Festivals Malta, the festival focuses on the premise that “our ordinary is actually extraordinary”, which is coming from the fact that in Malta we are surrounded by magnificent buildings that we pass by every day and barely notice their beauty.

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Ticket sales for Spirit & Passion. Accordion, String Quartet, Harpsichord & Dance. unfortunately have now finished! The last day of this event was on Saturday 04-Nov-2023. Ticket sales ended at Saturday 04-Nov-2023 23:30.

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For more information visit: https://www.festivals.mt/what-s-on/martynas-levickis 

Note: The evening includes a welcome drink. 

Karl Jenkins (b. 1944) 3'30''

Palladio, Concerto grosso for string orchestra (1993)

I. Allegretto

 

Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) 10'

Concerto grosso in D major, Op. 6, No. 4

I. Adagio – Allegro

II. Adagio

III. Vivace

IV. Allegro – Allegro

 

Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751) 10'

Adagio in G minor

 

Martynas Levickis (b. 1990) 20'

Lithuanian folk songs arrangements:

I. Lieliumoj

II. Šiū namo, tprū namo (Gee up, home)

III. Palinko liepa šalia kelio (A linden by the roadside bowed)

IV. Beauštanti aušrelė (The Dawn is Breaking)

V. Rūta Žalioj (The verdant Rue)

 

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Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) 8'30''

Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, "Autumn" (L'autunno)

I. Allegro

III. Allegro

 

 

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) 4'

Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, "Winter" (L'inverno)

I. Allegro non molto

 

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) 2'40''

Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, "Summer" (L'estate)

III. Presto

 

Nino Rota (1911–1979) 4'

"The Godfather" themes

 

Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992) 15'

Five Tango Sensations (1989)

II. Loving

III. Anxiety

V. Fear

 

& a special surprise


Martynas Levickis likes to call his instrument a box of magic tricks. And its true: when this Lithuanian musician straps on his accordion and begins to play the audience often falls silent,  spellbound as if watching an amazing magic show. Levickis is a man with a mission: to at last secure for his eternally underestimated instrument the reputation it deserves.

Levickis' stellar career as an ambassador for the accordion took off rapidly when he won the casting show "Lithuania's Got Talent" in 2010, followed by a debut album on Decca Classics that climbed straight to No. 1 in the British classical charts.

Today Martynas Levickis is one of the most in demand accordion soloists in the world. Past and future musical partnerships include Andris Nelsons, Iveta Apkalna, Benjamin Appl, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Clemens Schuldt and the Kammerakademie Potsdam.