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[A re-post, in memoriam Libor Pešek, 1933-2022] These are excellent […]
[A re-post, in memoriam Libor Pešek, 1933-2022] This excellent disc fills a very useful repertoire gap and makes a fine budget-priced recommendation for some unusual
As these eight CDs reveal, there’s more Britten orchestral music
Czech composer František Vincenc Kramár-Krommer (1759-1831), along with contemporaries Mozart, Stamitz, Spohr, and Weber, wrote important works for clarinet and orchestra. Kramár-Krommer’s Clarinet Concerto neatly
Mikhail Pletnev and Libor Pešek’s 1988 Rachmaninov disc makes a welcome reappearance at mid-price. Pešek launches the concerto with a refreshing athleticism, resisting the temptation
Libor Pešek offers a fulsome selection of Romeo and Juliet excerpts–more than 71 minutes’ worth. Rather than the usual suites, Pešek’s selections follow the order
Although Takako Nishizaki’s accounts of two of Louis (Ludwig) Spohr’s violin concertos are little more than routine, conductor Libor Pešek at least manages to ensure
Dvorák’s Violin Concerto sits awkwardly with Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole on this Virgin “The Classics” reissue. In the former, violinist Christian Tetzlaff takes a powerfully robust
Libor Pešek’s Dvorák cycle, recorded by Virgin between 1987 and 1996, has now been re-packaged into an eight-CD budget box. Most of the competitive sets,
Libor Pešek demonstrates an uncanny flair for Britten’s complex and distinctive idiom. Take his reading of the Sinfonia da Requiem, for example, in which his
