Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Pešek’s 8-disc budget Dvorák

Victor Carr Jr

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,

Britten orchestral works

ClassicsToday

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

Nielsen 3rd and Songs

Victor Carr Jr

Listening to Douglas Bostock conduct the opening of Nielsen’s Third Symphony is like watching a clumsy runner struggling to regain his footing. His hasty accelerando

Nielsen 2 and 5 Bostock C

David Hurwitz

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has made some outstanding recordings under Sir Charles Mackerras and Libor Pesek. Douglas Bostock is not a conductor of the same