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“[…] The elegant gentleman in tails is a fantastic storyteller in music. As a magician on six strings, he enchanted his audience in the Spaichinger Museum for an hour and a half on his valuable guitar. He doesn't need grades, he has them in his head. No piece sounds like the other; each work becomes a unique piece with its own character under his master craftsman's hands. [...] Its filigree decorations in 'La Catedral' harmonize perfectly with the delicate Art Nouveau ornaments in the 'parlor' of the museum. The imposing structure of Montevideo Cathedral inspired the composer of indigenous descent, Agustin Barrios Mangoré, to write this work. The guitarist serves a very special treat with his composition '6 Neginot', in which King David's moods are reproduced in oriental-sounding melisms. […] Via Dietrich Buxtehude's baroque lute music in guitar garb, Legnani comes to the final experience with Mauro Giuliani's 'Le Rossiniane no. 1, op. 119'. Here the opera connoisseur can discover delightful motifs from Rossini's 'Barber of Seville' in an opulent composition. [...] "

Swabian newspaper


“[…] The color nuances of his music range from the filigree tones of the instrument to the mighty trumpeting passages of the acoustic guitar, which can rise to an astonishing volume when played by a master. Roberto Legnani does not demonstrate his virtuosity, it merges with the music to form an inspiring unit. Extremely difficult passages such as double stops are a matter of course, especially when it comes to the fast-paced play of the spirited, but also melancholy Spanish music. [...] "

Solinger Tageblatt


“Guitar virtuoso Roberto Legnani took the audience on a musical journey through time, which led to South America and Spain via the Old Testament King David, and then ended with Legnani's own compositions in the European present. His guitar technique works without any strings squeaking or snarling on the fingerboard - a problem for many other guitarists. Several international awards, Legnani wants to convey moods and emotions with his game. Playing technique has to serve this goal and never becomes an end in itself. [...] "

Nordsee-Zeitung, Bremerhaven

“The brilliant highs and room-filling basses that Legnani elicits from his guitar make it clear that an instrument made by a master hand is in the hands of a renowned expert. […] In addition to 'Asturias' by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz, which also achieved fame in popular culture in the 1960s in a version of the psychedelic rock group The Doors under the title 'Spanish Caravan', this also includes a sarabande by Dietrich Buxtehude and Opus 119 by the Italian composer Mauro Giuliani [...] "

Weser-Kurier, Osterholzer Kreisblatt

Roberto Legnani
Roberto Legnani, Stavenhagen 2018
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Delicate sounds from the old shtetl

Concert production by Südwestfunk

The concert "Sounds from the Shtetl", which took place under the musical direction of the guitar virtuoso and composer Roberto Legnani in the overcrowded Schlossbergsaal of the Südwestfunk Freiburg and will soon be broadcast on radio, is one of the most lasting musical events in the Jewish-non-Jewish dialogue. [...] The "Sounds from the Shtetl" have three highlights. The "Ciclo hebraico" by Roberto Legnani represents, in the style of the musical mood pattern that has existed since Vivaldi, a purely prayer-like sound image composition about the three most important Jewish holidays Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Passover. Even the listener can appreciate the meaning and importance of these Jewish Holidays do not know anything, but their essence could be approximated by the sound image achieved here. [...]. The appropriately serious music of the personal annual balance (Rosh Hashanah) follows, musically translated in a fascinating way, the ascent of prayer to heaven, the reconciliation with Gd (Yom Kippur). The "Ciclo hebraico" closes with sounds of joy, liberation, the departure from slavery into freedom. [...].

General Jewish weekly newspaper

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Roberto Legnani

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