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 [...]
Libor will perform his favourite piano concerto- the Brahms no 1 with South Jutland Orchestra in Denmark and Germany in October. Check diary for details!
Libor´s will travel and perform twice this autumn in Ireland- on the 24 & 25 September in New Ross as part of the New Ross Festival and on the 30 & 31 October in Ballymaloe House near Cork during the Vanburgh Quartet weekend of chamber music.
Libor will be performing with the LPO in Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre this coming Sunday the 16th May. Concert starts at 3pm and will include Liszt’s Piano Concerto no. 1. http://www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk/What%27s_On/show.asp?showID=1779
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. [...]
“Herausragende Liszt-interpretation. Spätestens mit dieser zweiten Liszt-CD von Libor Novacek wird sehr deutlich, dass die Zukunft des jungen Tschechen im großen romantischen Virtuosenrepertoire liegt…Eine exzellente Balance zwischen pianistischem Finish und intensiver Expression”
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 it, we understand, [...]
Margaret Murphy Managementis is delighted that Libor Novacek is featured artists in the Making Music CPN brochure
Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage – Suisse; Consolations 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 introverted Swiss companion [...]
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 [...]
