October marks a busy month of US engagements for Semyon Bychkov who will conduct four different orchestras within the space of four weeks. On 8 October, Bychkov gives the US première of Detlev Glanert’s Brahms-Fantasie with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra which will be performed alongside Brahms’s First Symphony and Violin Concerto in D with soloist Renaud Capuçon. In between repeat performances on 9, 10 and 13 October, Bychkov presents an all-Tchaikovsky programme on 12 October featuring the composer’s Third Symphony and Francesca da Rimini with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. He returns to both works later in the week for his Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra debut for which he will also conduct the Orchestra in Strauss’s Burlesque with soloist Bertrand Chamayou (16-17 October).
Glanert’s Brahms-Fantasie and Brahms’s First Symphony also make repeat appearances in Bychkov’s programming when, a week later, he conducts the New York Philharmonic for four performances between 21-24 October. Both pieces will this time be presented alongside another of Brahms’s concertos: his Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with soloists Lisa Batiashvili and Gautier Capuçon.
Bychkov ends the month with the LA Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he’ll give 3 performances (29-31 October) of Strauss’s Alpine Symphony and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, also with Renaud Capuçon.