by Robert Johnson

‘…Novacek invokes the spirits of such keyboard giants as Julius Katchen, Sviatoslav Richter and Claudio Arrau in committing his interpretation to disc. In the first of the Opus 117 Intermezzi, which Brahms described as „three lullabies of my grief“, Novacek almost suspends time, such is his concentration and his ability to maintain a steady pulse at an extraordinarily slow tempo. Novacek shows himself to be a matchless interpreter of Brahms.’