Sfumato Cycle 2026/2027

The Croatian Radiotelevision Choir

Tomislav Fačini, chief conductor

Lauba / Croatian Music Institute (HGZ) at 8:00 p.m.

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Thursday, October 15, 2026, Lauba

ERASMUS VESPERTINUS

Croatian Radiotelevision Choir & voice students from The Music Academies of Vilnius, Karlsruhe, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, and Zagreb as part of the Erasmus program

Tomislav Fačini, conductor

Sergei Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil

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Tuesday, November 17, 2026, Lauba

REQUIEM FOR THE CITY

from agony to hope through the works of Catalan, Spanish, and Croatian composers

Croatian Radiotelevision Choir

Marcel Ortega i Martí, conductor

Enrique Granados, Pol Requesens, Ivan Josip Skender (new work / commissioned by HRT), Carles Prat Vives, Feliu Gasull

3

Tuesday, December 1, 2026, Lauba

TRANSCRIPTORIUM

songs for a cappella choir in transcriptions by Clytus Gottwald and Tomislav Fačini

Croatian Radiotelevision Choir

Tomislav Fačini, conductor

Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Blagoje Bersa, Dora Pejačević, Josip Hatze

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Tuesday, December 22, 2026, Lauba

CANITE ET PSALLITE

Croatian Radiotelevision Choir

Croatian Radiotelevision Children’s Choir

Ivan Šćepanović, conductor

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Benjamin Britten, Ivan Josip Skender, Boris Papandopulo, David Willcocks, John Rutter

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Tuesday, February 9, 2027, Lauba 

LES NOCES

Croatian Radiotelevision Choir

Tomislav Fačini, conductor

Natalija Kralj, soprano

Ivana Srbljan, mezzo-soprano

Tomislav Jukić, tenor

Lobel Barun, baritone

Igor Stravinsky: The Wedding (Les Noces)

Georgy Sviridov: Concerto for Choir in Memory of Aleksandr Yurlov

Georgy Sviridov: Three Choruses from the Music for the Tragedy Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich

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Tuesday, March 2, 2027, Church of Saint Blaise

CANON

Croatian Radiotelevision Choir

Tomislav Fačini, conductor

Arvo Pärt: Kanon Pokajanen

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Tuesday, April 6, 2027, Croatian Music Institute (HGZ)

MODERNA

Croatian Radiotelevision Choir

Daniel Reuss, conductor

Zlatko Grgošević: Around the Harvest Wreath (Okolo žnjačkoga venca)

Viktor Sergeyevich Kalinnikov: Sacred Choral Works

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Tuesday, May 25, 2027, Croatian Music Institute (HGZ)

BBB

Croatian Radiotelevision Choir

Florian Helgath, conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Britten

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