About the speakers: Prof. Dr. Ivana Tomić Ferić, musicologist (moderator); Prof. Dr. Hana Breko Kustura, musicologist and associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (author of texts in the program booklet), musicologist Srđana Vrsalović (editor), conductor Tonči Bilić, and academic Frano Parać.

More about the program: The compositions "Missa Maruliana" for soprano, baritone, choir, and orchestra (1993) and the suite from the ballet "Carmina Krležiana" for reciter, mixed choir and symphony orchestra (1988) link Parać's composition with Croatian literary giants – Miroslav Krleža and Marko Marulić. Given the 130th anniversary of Miroslav Krleža's birth in 2023 and the recent 2024 as the year of Marko Marulić, Parać's album and the editions as a whole gain additional significance and relevance. Two editions have been released by the publishing house Cantus of the Croatian Composers' Society: the sheet music edition of the composition "Carmina Krležiana" (editor Sanja Stojanović Stipanov), as well as a double sound carrier with studio recordings of the mentioned works, published in the Ligatura edition as a joint publishing project of the Croatian Radiotelevision and the Croatian Composers' Society under the Cantus publishing house. The third sheet music edition is "Missa Maruliana," published by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (editor Zoran Juranić). The performers of the studio recordings released on the album are the Choir and Symphony Orchestra of Croatian Radiotelevision, conducted by maestro Tonči Bilić, joined by a series of distinguished soloists (dramatic artist Danijel Ljuboja and vocal soloists Kristina Kolar and Ljubomir Puškarić), as well as members of the Oratory Choir of the Church of St. Mark, Cantores sancti Marci, and the Academic Choir Ivan Goran Kovačić. The album with works by Frano Parać received four nominations for this year's Porin Award: for the best classical music album, best classical music album recording (Božidar Pandurić), best classical music album production (Krešimir Seletković and Pero Mihojević), and best album visual design (Damir Očko, Ana Nikolić Baće, Emil Šimik).