12 Nov, 2013
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...
12 Nov, 2013
Watch as Semyon Bychkov conducts the UK’s brilliant National Youth Orchestra in a stunning rendition of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
10 Nov, 2013
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...
24 Oct, 2013
Spotlight – Listen – Review Rachmaninov was one of Semyon Bychkov’s idols from childhood. ;I played his piano music, I read everything I could find on him, including his letters. It was an obsession. And then I found myself at the Leningrad Conservatory, the youngest...
19 Oct, 2013
Semyon Bychkov’s current performances with the the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Chicago Symphony have earned enthusiastic praise from US critics. The programme features Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, “The Year 1905”, coupled with...
