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Libor Novacek to appear on Czech Radio 3 - Vltava
On Monday 14th July at 10:15 - 11:30,
Libor Novacek makes an appearance on 'Telefonoteka', the show dedicated to recordings, interviews and audience questions
on Czech Radio 3 - Vltava.
Phone to the transmission: +420 221 553 223
He is due to discuss with Marketa Vejvodova his last recital at Wigmore Hall and also his next release on Landor Records, a Brahms recital, which comes out on 15th September 2008.
You can listen the transmission on Internet
http://www.rozhlas.cz/audio/vysilani
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Libor Novacek ve vysilani CRo3 Vltava
V pondeli 14. cervence od 10:15 - 11:30
se Libor objevi ve vysilani 'Telefonoteky', poradu se zajimavymi nahravkami, rozhovorem a otazkami posluchacu.
Telefon do vysilani: 221 553 223
Libor bude diskutovat s Marketou Vejvodovou o svem poslednim recitalu ve Wigmore Hall, a o nove nahravce skladeb J. Brahmse,
ktera bude uvedena na trh vydavatelstvim Landor Records 15. zari 2008.
Porad muzete poslouchat take na Internetu -
http://www.rozhlas.cz/audio/vysilani
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Classic FM podcast
Thursday 5th June
Last night at the Wigmore Hall, the young Czech pianist Libor Novacek performed a programme of Haydn, Brahms and Liszt, and also took the opportunity to launch his latest CD - an ambitious approach to the work of Brahms. He talks to Arts Daily about his approach to his work, his relationship with the Young Concert Artists trust (YCAT) and Recording v. Concert Hall performance.
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LIBOR NOVACEK'S LATEST CD LAUNCHED
AT LANDOR/YCAT PIANO FESTIVAL,
WIGMORE HALL, JUNE 4th
The new recording is entirely devoted to works by Johannes Brahms.
It deliberately covers a wide chronological range, mapping Brahms's path from youthful brilliance to mellow maturity and
includes the comparatively rarely played early Second Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 2, as well as the
Klavierstucke, Op 76 and the three late Intermezzi, Op 117.
Novacek's next recording project for Landor is already planned for August, when he'll be recording more Liszt - this time the Annees de Pelerinage - Premiere Annee: Suisse and a selection of the composer's smaller pieces.
The launch of the new recording coincides with the end of the twenty-eight year old Novacek's association with YCAT,
the well-known charitable trust which promotes young artists at the beginning of their professional careers. Novacek
will now be managed by
Margaret Murphy Management.
This year's plans include recital and appearances in Cape Town, Johannesurg, Buenos Aires, Prague (where he'll record a recital for Czech television), Festival Brno,
as well as appearances at the King's Lynn Festival.
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On 23rd February 2008 Libor made his solo debut in the beautiful Dvorak Hall of the Rudolfinum in his native town of Prague. A superb performance of a hugely demanding programme (Brahms - Sonata No 2 in F sharp minor and Three Intermezzi op.117 plus Liszt - Annees de Pelerinage - Premiere Annee - Suisse) before a rapturous audience of over 1000 people. The day following his performance in Prague Libor was off to perform the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the RPO in Northampton, before a sold-out house of 1700!
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DIARIO DE BURGOS
3 de Marzo de 2008
T. Fernandez
Quienes asistieron al auditorio de caja de Ahoros del Circulo de C/Julio Saez de la Hoya el dia de aquel concierto
fueron testigos en directo
de la asombrosa maduracion artistica de este joven musico.
El recital, compuesto por obras de Scarlatti, Mozart, Brahms y Liszt, puso
de manifesto el magnifico control que
Novacek ejerce sobre el teclado,
la intensidad con la que interpreta las piezas,
su virtuosismo y, sobre todo,
su enorme registro de matices y la gran riqueza timbrica que sabe sacarle al piano.
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by Dave Robson
Darlington Arts Centre
In a very full evening of contrasting large-scale works, he played Janacek's In The Mists, which reflects on life from the viewpoint of old age, intense and resigned. Over the decades, I have heard the work performed many times by leading pianists of different nationalities and seniority, but never, I venture, recorded with such a deep emotional power and insight as by this young man.
'[Brahms' Piano Sonata in F sharp minor Opus 2]... Novacek played it with relish, with the ardour of burgeoning youth in the opening allegro and no less lively in the ensuing movements.
'[The first book of Liszt's Annees de pelerinage]... All were performed with
a sensitive touch,
never replacing power with stridency, by a performer of distinction, even in the hot colours and rhythms of Spain in an
deserved encore of Manuel de Falla's Fire Dance.
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HOSPODARSKE NOVINY
by Petr Veber
'Novacek enraptured himself in the music of Brahms's 3 Intermezzi,
thus making time stand still... '
'[Novacek]... showed fearless and flawless touch, phenomenal inspiration and imagination, well-pondered architecture of
the large passages and musical form, and often displayed his mastery
over extreme technical difficulties...'