Libor Pešek

Libor Pesek ( born June 22, 1933, Prague ) is a Czech conductor.

He studied conducting, piano, cello and trombone at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, among others, Vaclav Smetacek, Karel Ancerl and Vaclav Neumann. At first he played jazz trombone and led a swing orchestra. After working at the opera houses in Pilsen and Prague from 1958 to 1964, he founded a chamber orchestra in Prague. In the 70 years he led the orchestra in Pardubice, Leeuwarden and Enschede. 1981 to 1982 he was chief conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic and from 1982 to 1990 " Conductor in Residence" of the Czech Philharmonic. From 1987 to 1997 he was chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Pesek believes as a conductor of an orchestra to the spirit in the sense of a particular sound or a particular variety that is heard when you respect the musicians and leaves them some creative freedom. In fact Pesek achieved with the orchestras he regularly conducts, an extraordinary sense of sound. Brio drama and contrast were missing occasionally from vinyl critics. Pešeks major concern for vinyl recordings applies to the Czech music. So he submitted a recording of the complete Dvorak symphonies with Virgin Records, and also a wide range of works of Josef Suk, sometimes several times with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Supraphon early 80s and again with the Liverpool Orchestra in the early 1990s at Virgin. Even lesser-known composers such as Vítězslav Novák he has made known with a series of recordings.