This year 2023, Krešimir Starčević is intensely celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Croatian composer and pedagogue Blagoje Bersa and the Russian composer, pianist and conductor Sergei Rachmaninov. In addition to their songs and romances and piano trios, Starčević’s piano recital programs were also dedicated to their works.
At the concerts in the Music Schools of PAKRAC (October 25) and NOVSKA
(November 2), Starčević thus performed their characteristically and
atmospherically different shorter piano forms. The concert began and ended with
the works of another Croatian composer whom he performs with great pleasure and
often – Dubravko Detoni: at the beginning it was Three Choral
Preludes based on Bach’s chorale “Mach’s mit mir, Gott nach deiner
Güt”, and at the end the suite “Nine Scenes from Danijel’s dream“,
inspired by the dreams of then little boy Danijel Detoni, composer’s, today a superb
pianist and pedagogue.
“With a suggestive performance style, Starčević gave the compositions a personal dramaturgical touch, which additionally occupied the attention of the audience, and in the end gave Pakrac a real piano treat.” (Pakrački list)
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