The album features a 'medium change' where original piano pieces are arranged for solo guitar, two guitars, or guitar and cello, and violin sonatas are performed with guitar instead of piano.
Album & Artwork
The album's title, 'Duality', reflects the manifold approach of guitarist Aljaž Cvirn to his instrument and the classical repertoire, combining two different things or having two different parts.
Interpretation
The album reinterprets Romantic-era music by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and Franz Schubert by having the classical guitar take over the role of the piano, the central instrument of the Romantics.
Performer Biography
Aljaž Cvirn, the Slovenian classical guitarist on this album, teaches guitar at the Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich and the Kantonsschule Uster in Switzerland.
Performer Biography
Tanja Sonc, the violinist on this album, is a member of the 'Zürcher Kammerorchester' since 2017 and plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin on loan from the Bank of Slovenia.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded at Narodni dom Celje, Slovenia, in October 2022.
