“The 19th Festival of Croatian Music in Vienna was opened on Tuesday evening (September 26, 2023) in the Baroque Hall of Vienna’s Old Town Hall, in the Bank Austria Lounge, with an impressive vocal-piano recital by the Croatian bass-baritone Krešimir Stražanac from Stuttgart and the Zagreb pianist Krešimir Starčević, entitled “Rachmaninov & Bersa 150 – Romances and Songs“.
It was an evening to remember. The beauty of the distinctive voice and the superb performance of Stražanec, full of emotions of this increasingly sought-after vocal star on the European and world music scene, along with Starčević’s imposing and confident piano collaboration, delighted the otherwise demanding Viennese music audience, who rewarded them with multiple stormy and long-lasting applause and calls to “encore”. The brilliantly coordinated musical duo Stražanac – Starčević thanked the audience with the song “Good Night” by Vladimir Ruždjak.”
Snježana Herek, Večernji list
