PIANISTIC FIREWORKS Our dear old Bechstein is well into her eighties but she’s up for a challenge whenever it is made. So it was when Czech pianist Libor Novacek sent Beethoven, Brahms and Liszt rattling through her parts. These were big romantic works and none as much as the Lizst B-minor sonata. The grand one movement sweep [...]
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL ORFIM Las notas del violoncello y del piano enamoran a Orpesa Los amantes de la música clásica disfrutaron anoche de una magnífica velada con la segunda actuación del Festival Internacional de Música Orfim. Los mejores sonidos se crearon en un ambiente mágico bajo la luz de la luna, en el que únicamente [...]
Thundering octaves, fleet fingerwork and beautiful playing in lyrical passages. Several excellent pianists have played in Durban in recent weeks, and the latest is well up to the standard set by the others. He is Libor Novacek, a 34-year-old Czech who is building a big reputation in many parts of the world and is on [...]
Libor’s Brahms is legendary Last Saturday Music Nairn had the pleasure of welcoming back Libor Nováček for his second performance at the Community Centre. He bravely chose to start with Janáček’s challenging masterpiece „On the Overgrown Path“, a work whose fleeting glimpses of the composer’s pain following the death of his daughter, cast in his [...]
El brillante pianista deleita con su clase al animado público del clásico Orfim Libor Novacek volvió envuelto de aplausos a la plaza de la Iglesia de Orpesa, esta vez, muy bien acompañado. El joven cuarteto Carducci, uno de los grupos de cámara jóvenes más aclamados del Reino Unido, envolvió de los mejores sonidos de cuerda [...]
El enorme pianista checo llenó la plaza de la Iglesia de Orpesa en la primera jornada del festival internacionál ‚La Sonata en Do Mayor‘ (Hob. XVI. 50), de J. Haydn; ‚las Siete fantasías‘ (Op. 116 Intervalo), de J. Brahms; los ‚Preludios‘ (Vol. II -selección-), de C. Debussy; y la ‚Sonata en Si Menor’, de F. [...]
Atemberaubender Klavierabend Libor Novacek begeisterte in der Reihe „Aqua Piano“ das Publikum Diesmal setzte Libor Novacek mit seinem Programm „Brahms versus Liszt“ ein neues Glanzlicht in der Reihe. Janacek entdeckte in der Wortmelodik Fenster, die in die Menschliche Seele führen. Töne und Akkorde waren für ihn belebte Wesen. Diesen Zusamenhängen war Libor Novacek so genau [...]
July 2011 issue of the BBC Music Magazine - Musical Destinations article Daniel Jaffé is writing about the piano festival in New Ross (P.52) and comments as follows: In 2010 there were striking performances by the Chinese pianist Sa Chen and the Czech Libor Nováček (who gave a spine-tingling and in my experience unsurpassed performance of Mussorgsky’s [...]
Libor Novacek joined forces with the marvellous Carducci Quartet for a performance this afternoon of Dvorak’s Piano Quintet. It was a sensational performance full of nuance, insight and verve. Our dear old Bechstein, an elderly lady in her eighties, was handled with great sensitivity by the dashing Czech and the music rang out with passion [...]
At the age of 13 Libor Novacek staged first time in Dahlbruch – now he celebrated a come-back in the Wilhelm Bush Theatre with Master Chamber Music Series Powerful programme – phenomenal execution by Knut Lohmann Pianist Libor Novacek had prepared an extraordinarily powerful programme for his audience in Dahlburch where he performed 6th time. [...]
