LEGENDARY MUSIC MONDAYS OPENS NEW VISTAS

Thanks to the Music Biennale Zagreb, our city is widely regarded as one of the more important European centers of contemporary music. It is precisely the effort of Cantus Ensemble, founded and led by artistic director Berislav Šipuš and initially assembled for the purposes of the Biennale, that guarantees a continuous presence of contemporary music in Zagreb and in Croatia.

Therefore, on the 6-7 Mondays when Cantus is scheduled to play, Lisinski Hall becomes a legendary place that opens new vistas onto the world music landscape.

Apart from Croatian and international contemporary music, often composed expressly for Cantus, the Ensemble also performs works by authors who are no longer living but who represent corner stones of New Music. Such an author is Schoenberg's pupil Anton Webern (1883 - 1945). Speaking about the concert, the composer and professor Srđan Dedić equated the selection of seven of Webern's opuses, from No. 13 to No. 19, and the performance of these seminal works with a rare spotting of a bright comet that can be experienced only once in a lifetime.

(Excerpt from critique: Branimir Pofuk, Jutarnji list, 11 November 2009)