• The Gramophone Choice – Brahms´s Piano Sonatas

    Gramophone Choice: Brahms´s Piano Sonatas Libor´s Brahms recording compared to the greatest artists…. Libor Novacek shows himself deeply sensitive to the interior light burning beneath the surface of Brahms’s often dark-hued later masterpieces. What unfaltering poise and tonal translucence he achieves throughout Opp 76 and 117. Less ebullient than, say, Rubinstein or Perahia in the second Capriccio [...]

  • Fono Forum

    Balance Spätestens mit dieser zweiten Liszt-CD von Libor Novacek wird sehr deutlich, dass die Zukunft des jungen Tschechen in großen romantischen Virtuosenrepertoire liegt. Und dies nicht nur, weil er über eine sichere Technik verfügt und einen kompakten, voluminös-runden Ton zu erzeugen versteht, sondern weil er all seine reichen Mittel ganz in den Dienst einer poetischen [...]

  • PIZZICATO – Supersonic Award 10/2010

    Introspective Liszt Der tschechische Pianist Libor Novacek hat sich als Liszt-Interpret einen guten Namen gemacht. Mit ‚Suisse‘ aus den ‚Années de Pèlerinage‘ macht er diesem Etikett alle Ehre, und das nicht, weil er als Virtuose nur so glänzen würde, sondern weil er in Liszt Musik eine Sensibilität bringt, die in dieser Qualität nicht viel Konkurrenz [...]

  • BBC Music Magazine Review

    BBC Music Magazine Review – September 2010 Landor Records LAN 290 Libor Novacek already has a reputation as a fine and sensitive artist. He makes a lovely sound – rounded, mellow, powerful where needed, and never for a moment ugly. This recording of the first book of Années de pèlerinage begins with a superb account [...]

  • Czech Music Quarterly Review

    Libor Novacek’s play is distinguished by constant qualities; poeticism, transparency, a high culture of touches and light technique. From this point of view the first volume of Lizst’s Annees de Pelerinage and Consolations seem „tailor-made“ for him. In the first volume of his Annees de Pelerinage Liszt placed pieces inspired by his travels in Switzerland. [...]

  • New terrific review at International Record Review

    INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW by Patrick Rucker ….One very significant clue to Novacek’s particular success is discernible in the first piece of the set, Chapelle de Guillaume Tell. …As one listens to ‘Chapelle de Guillaume Tell’ played by Berman, Brendel or Ciccolini, the mind wanders and the rhetorical gesture, inaccurately rendered, sounds vapid. As Novacek delivers [...]

  • 5 * * * * * Guardian review

    Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage – Suisse; Consolations THE GUARDIAN – Thursday 11 March 2010 by Tim Ashley The young Czech pianist Libor Novacek’s recording of the second, Italian book of Liszt’s Années de Pèlerinage brought him to everyone’s attention when it appeared four years ago, and the release of his version of its earlier, more [...]

  • Norman Lebrecht’s CD’s of the Week

    Liszt Suisse (Landor) **** Liszt is red meat for the big beasts of the piano. What makes this recital so arresting is the low-key approach that Libor Novacek takes to the Swiss episodes of Liszt’s travel diaries, as well the later, lesser known Consolations. The meditative, priestly aspect of Liszt is often eclipsed by virtuosic [...]

  • Piano News – Interpretation ******

    PIANO NEWS 06/ 2009 by Robert Nemecek Libor Novacek hat schon vor einem Jahr den Italien-Teil aus Liszts Années de Pèlerinage eingespielt, und das war ihm so gut gelungen, dass man sich insgeheim eine Fortsetzung des Années-Projekts wünschte. Der Wunsch ist nun in Erfüllung gegangen, und das Resultat bestätigt einmal mehr Novaceks Rang als einem [...]

  • The Independent

    THE INDEPENDENT 03/01/ 2009 by Kevin Harley ‚If Brahms himself had been recorded playing his own music, this, I believe, is how it might have sounded: the young Czech pianist Libor Novacek gives these majestic pieces a dazzling sweep and splendour. His formidable technique gives him the assurance he needs to let the music sing, [...]

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