Stefano Golinelli was an acclaimed virtuoso pianist who was also appreciated as a composer in his day. He played an important role in the 19th-century Italian musical renaissance, but his name has faded from view over time. The emotional power of Golinelli’s music is well represented in his first two piano sonatas, the earliest of which, Op.30, shows the influence of Schumann and Mendelssohn. The Op.53 Sonata features a wealth of melodic ideas and musical surprises – its opening is an Italian homage to Chopin, and the work also contains a beautiful Andantino movement.

A pianist with a great temperament and a sweeping musicality, Loredana Brigandì is a virtuoso who blends interpretative elegance with an extraordinary technique, through which she braves the greatest difficulties of the keyboard. She dedicated herself to the rediscovery, dissemination, and enhancement of the unexplored repertoire of the past, and actively searching for compositions that would arouse her interest not only from a musicological point of view but as an interpreter. Her discography includes the world-première recording of works by Ignaz Moscheles and Friedrich Kuhlau, which received critical acclaims from both Gramophone and the New York Times. Today her recordings are broadcast worldwide.