Bass-baritone Krešimir Stražanac and Krešimir Starčević performed their first two joint concerts at the festivals in Petrinja and Zadar!
The selected songs of the Croatian composer Blagoje Bersa and the romances of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov made up the program with which the musicians marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of these two composers. Starčević performed the piano works of Bersa (At the Strand) and Rachmaninov (Étude-tableaux in G minor, op. 33 no. 7 and Prelude in C-sharp minor, op. 3 no. 2) between performances with Stražanac.
The program was presented for the first time in the Church of St. Lovro in Petrinja, on July 6, 2023, as part of the 4th Ranko Filjak Piano Memorial, which is dedicated to the memory of this important Croatian pianist and pedagogue.
Three days later, on July 9, the musicians were guests in the Church of St. Krševan in Zadar, as part of a 63rd Music Evenings in St. Donatus Festival.
© Željko Karavida (Concert in Zadar)
