Francesco Lotoro

Biography

After having studied at the "F. Liszt" music school in Budapest Francesco Lotoro has became a specialized piano player with Kornel Zempleni, Viktor Merzhanov, Tamas Vasary and Aldo Ciccolini. His activity has been focused on Johann Sebastian Bach; he has transcribed: the Musikalisches Opfer for two pianos, the Brandenburg Concertos, the Deutsche Messe and the 14 canons BWV1087; it worths to mention the remake of the Weihnachtsoratorium for solos choir and piano of Friedrich Nietzsche. In the 1995 he marked up the Orchestra Judaica. Then he realized the project of collecting the entire piano literature produced in the second war world; beginning with the recording of all piano and camera plays written by Alois Pinos, Petr Pokorny, Petr Eben and others after the velvet revolution, and mastering the KZ Music encyclopedia containing all of the music production composed in prisoning camps of the world war the second of: Europe, North Africa and Asia. He have built up the "Banca della Memoria" , the most complete file on concentrationary music literature. As composer he has written the play: "Misha e i lupi", inspired by the Misha De Fonseca's life. He's completing the " Dizionario della Letteratura Musicale Concentrazionaria". He has been mentioned in the "Dizionario enciclopedico della Musica e dei Musicisti" by UTET.

Discography

*F.Busoni, F. Nietzsche, B. Pasternak, F. G. Lorca. Sorriso
*Shoah; R. Karel, P. Haas, G. Klein, V. Ullmann. Sorriso
*F. Nietzsche; Christmas Oratorium (Lotoro, RSI). Sorriso
*Brundibàr; H. Kràsa, G. Klein, V. Ullmann. Sorriso
*F. Nietzsche; Christmas Oratorium (Lotoro, Ars Cantica). Sarx
*J.S.Bach; A Musical Offering, (Lotoro, Greco). Symposion
*Praha '68; Pinos, Pokorny, Eben, Istvan, Knizak. Symposion
*J.S.Bach; A German Mass (Lotoro, Ciccolini). Symposion
*Musica Judaica (16 CDs). Symposion

Pubblications

*F. Nietzsche; Christmas Oratorium (T/M reconstruction)
*J.S.Bach; A Musical Offering e Erbarme dich (trascrizione per 2 pianoforti)
*J.S.Bach; A German Mass e 14 Canoni (transcr. 2 pianos)
*P. Eben; Svaty Vaclave (trascrizione per 2 pianoforti)
*Dizionario della Letteratura Musicale Concentrazionaria