Duo Ariana Burstein & Roberto Legnani

Classical and world music for cello and guitar

Ariana Burstein & Roberto Legnani celebrated their 20th stage anniversary as a duo in 2016. Thanks to the two protagonists, the unusually distinctive combination of cello and guitar has continuously and formatively established itself in concert life over a period of 22 years. Through their creative work, Burstein & Legnani have created a completely new repertoire for cello and guitar.

Undeterred, far from changing fashion and fleeting zeitgeist, the duo arranged new works for the annual tours. The repertoire for cello and guitar grew from year to year, including over 200 arrangements of classical masterpieces as well as numerous compositions by Roberto Legnani. New compositions emerged from collected themes, fragments and melodies from different peoples, which the duo simply presents as world music in their concerts.

In a harmonious dialogue with cultures, the different epochs and genres merge and lead the audience into a magical world of sounds. Passionate melodies, pulsating rhythms and old style elements resound in an artistically new guise - music from the Moorish Middle Ages, leading into the 21st century, with flowing borders between occidental, oriental, Asian and Jewish culture.