His activity focused on Johann Sebastian Bach: he transcribed The Musical Offering for two pianos, the Brandenburg Concertos, the Deutsche Messe and the Canons on the Goldberg ground, BWV 1087.

KZ Musik which consists of the recording of the musical corpus created in places of captivity, deportation and deprivation of human rights from the opening of the Dachau and Börgermoor camps until liberation at the end of the Second World War and on the Eurasian (May 1945) and the Pacific (August 1945) sides.

[9] Francesco Lotoro and the concentrationary music are the subject of two international publishing initiatives: the book Le Maestro: À la recherche de la musique des camps (1933-1945) (Éditions Stock, 2012) by French writer Thomas Saintourens[10] and the documentary Maestro by the Franco-Argentine director Alexandre Valenti, an Italian-French co-production of 2017 screened in cinemas all over the world and aired on major international TV channels.

[15] In November 2013, Francesco Lotoro was awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, because - the motivation says - "he dedicated considerable efforts to search scores of French composers deported to the lagers, thus saving their music ", bringing to completion a "simply exceptional" work.

[16][17] In December 2014 he was awarded the title of Knight Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, conferred by President Sergio Mattarella.