Loredana Brigandì

Italian classical pianist Loredana Brigandì is among the few pianists in the world to dedicate herself to the research, diffusion and greater appreciation of the unexplored classical piano repertoire of the past.

In 1996 her name became known internationally with the issue of the complete edition of "Ignaz Moscheles' Studies", op.70, in a world premiere recording for Nuova Era, which won outstanding praise from international critics and continues to receive abundant playing time on the most important radio stations in Europe and the United States of America.

Towards the end of 1997, dedicating herself with increasing passion to the task of studying and researching great forgotten composers, she decided to withdraw from her didactic activities which saw her, at an extremely young age, holder of a chair of Principal Pianoforte at the Conservatory of Reggio Calabria since 1984.

In 1999 the international music scene welcomed another world premiere from Loredana on the Nuova Era label. On this occasion she released the complete sonatinas of Friedrich Kuhlau, which, as with the Moscheles disc, involved partitions which were already available for purchase.

The search for unpublished works developed a few years later from the very impossibility of finding works which were not already recorded and published. In this context, driven by the desire to bring new life to the piano repertoire (somewhat lacking in the whole area of works from so-called minor composers) and by the thought of the quantity of splendid music waiting to be discovered, she decided that she should devote herself to the rediscovery of all those works that merited a return to prominence and which had caught her interest not only for what they offered to a researcher, but also for what they offered to a pianist.

In June 2000 she went to Denmark, where she found the Sonatas, Variations and the Rondos of Friedrich Kuhlau in the Royal Library of Copenhagen. In July 2002 she recorded these new works at the Swiss Radio Auditorium in Lugano in two CDs were released a few years later on the Nuova Era Records.

Shortly after, she rediscovered other significant works of the Hungarian composer Ignaz Moscheles ( 1794-1870 ) including Sonatas and Fantasies from her recording in June 2006 and published on Dynamic in 2008.