Universal’s ‘Virtuoso’ series has just re-released Semyon Bychkov’s recording of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Recorded in Berlin in 1986, The Nutcracker was one of a series of recordings that Bychkov made with the Berliner...
Critic and audiences alike praised Semyon Bychkov conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a special Remembrance Day Sunday performance of Britten’s War Requiem at London’s Royal Albert Hall. “A performance of Britten’s War Requiem in the high spaces of the Albert...
Spotlight – Listen – See in Concert – Reviews ‘I was born later than Shostakovich, so I did not live through the years of mass terror in the Soviet Union as he did,’ says Semyon Bychkov. ‘But nevertheless I understand the way of life he experienced and identify with...
