NPR MUSIC INTERVIEW

Prior to conducting the LA Philharmonic last week in Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie, Semyon Bychkov talked to NPR Music’s All Things Considered about the piece on the day of its 100th anniversary:...

OCTOBER NEWS

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...

2015/16 SEASON BEGINS

Opening the new season with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Salzburg, September has so far seen Semyon Bychkov make further appearances with the Orchestra at the Grafenegg Festival, BBC Proms and Lucerne Festival. The latter half of Bychkov’s European tour with...

Opening the new season with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Salzburg, September has so far seen Semyon Bychkov make further appearances with the Orchestra at the Grafenegg Festival, BBC Proms and Lucerne Festival. The latter half of Bychkov’s European tour with the Orchestra takes him to the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest, the Musikverein in Vienna for the opening concert of the Vienna Philharmonic’s 2015-16 subscription concert series as well as the Wiener Konzerthaus and Brucknerhaus Linz. Prior to three performances of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony with the Munich Philharmonic at the end of the month, Semyon Bychkov pairs Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony with Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique for two performances with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the latter of which will be presented as part of the Dvořák Prague International Music Festival.

Prior to his performance of Shostakovich’s epic Seventh Symphony – the “Leningrad” – at the BBC Proms, Semyon Bychkov took some time to speak with John Wilson at BBC Front Row and to BBC World Service about the work, which is so connected to his birthplace. You can...

SUMMER HAS ARRIVED

With the start of the summer, Semyon Bychkov is in Tokyo for two concerts with the Kioi Sinfonietta on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 July, before returning to Europe for the first of two concerts at the BBC Proms at the end of the month.  In Japan, he will conduct Mozart’s...