Events

 

  

Four nominations for the Porin Award 2024: Best Album, Best Performance, Best Producer and Best Recording!

 

"Some new discoveries revitalize the spirit and the heart. This wonderful album is the best proof. And the name Blagoje Bersa is one to remember!” (Opernwelt, Germany)

 

" Superb CD for discovering Blagoj Bersa's solo songs! An album that every lover of rarities and discoveries should listen to." (Première Loge, Francuska)

 

" Stražanac and Starčević thus close a cross sectional loop that, for the very first time, gives an accurate measure of a forgotten great.." (Opera Wire, New York)

 

" Sensational solo debut album by one of today's most beautiful lyrical baritones, Krešimir Stražanac, and his congenial piano collaborator, Krešimir Starčević." (Online Merker, Austrija)

 

" The two Krešimirs support their compatriot Blagoje Bersa with passion and a high level of artistic understanding." (Klassik Heute, Njemačka)

 

 

 

(a cycle of songs based on the poetry of Heinrich Heine)

 

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Ein Lied der Liebe (A song about love), op. 67 (Reinhard Volker)

Auf den Wällen Salamancas (On the walls of Salamanca), op. 41 (Heinrich Heine)

Mein süßes Lieb, wenn du im Grab (My sweet love, when you in the grave), op. 39 (Heinrich Heine)

 

Primorska pjesmica (A song from the seaside), op. 72 (Petar Preradović)

Kad! (When!) (Petar Preradović)

Jelica, op. 73 (Petar Preradović)

Robinjica (Slave woman), op. 47 (Josip Bersa)

 

Povero scemo! (Enamoured fool!), op. 33 (anonymous verses)

Oj sanci, vi šareni sanci 8 (Oh dreams, you colourful dreams), op. 45 (Josip Bersa)

 

 

After successful concerts all over Croatia (Croatian National Theatrea in Zagreb, Festivals in Zadar, Samobor and Petrinja), Austria (Croatian Music Festival in Vienna) and Brazil (São Paulo, Brasilia, Goiânia), one of the most successful Croatian musicians in the world, bass-baritone Krešimir Stražanac, and highly sought-after pianist and chamber musician Krešimir Starčević, made a studio recording of 23 solo songs Blagoja Bersa. It is a world premiere recording album released by the respected German label Hänssler Classsic. The album received praise and the highest ratings from critics from portals from the USA, France, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and Croatia.

 

 

 

Organiser: Udruga Moj svijet

Sponsors: Grad Zagreb, Gradski ured za kulturu i civilno društvo