Spotlight – Listen – Reviews Verdi has always been close to my heart,’ says Semyon Bychkov. ‘I grew up in Leningrad, where there are three opera houses, including the least-known one that is part of the Conservatory. All three had La Traviata in their repertoire, and...
Chicago Tribune, John von Rhein “Especially now, with all the hoopla surrounding the centennial of Benjamin Britten, his contemporary and fellow Englishman, William Walton, has been shoved to the margins of our concert life. But Walton, who died in 1983, seven years...
Spotlight – Listen – See in Concert – Reviews ‘Wagner’s operas are the closest music to Buddhism that I know,’ says Semyon Bychkov. He goes on to explain: ‘It is in a permanent state of unfolding. Yes, of course, there is a moment when it starts – but only because it...
In advance of conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a Remembrance Day Sunday concert of Britten’s War Requiem at London’s Royal Albert Hall, Semyon Bychkov speaks with Sinfini’s Amanda Holloway on the music and his own history with the work. Click here to read the...
Martin Kettle gives Semyon Bychkov four stars in The Guardian for his Remembrance Day Sunday performance of Britten’s War Requiem with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Kettle writes, “Bychkov’s conducting has a wonderful sense of line and...
