ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE PLAYS STRAUSS AND WAGNER

You can listen to Semyon Bychkov’s concert from Thursday 12 June with the Orchestre National de France performing music by Wagner with Christianne Stotijn and Strauss until 12 July here from France Musique: http://bit.ly/1nfmA1q

BYCHKOV STANDS IN WITH BERLIN PHILHARMONIC

The Berliner Philharmoniker have asked Semyon Bychkov to replace the indisposed Lorin Maazel for 4 concerts. He will conduct the orchestra on 4, 5, 6 and 7 June in performances of Strauss’s ‘Don Quixote’ and Schubert’s ‘Great’ C major Symphony No. 9. The final...

BYCHKOV’S ‘DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN’ LIVE ON BBC RADIO 3

On Saturday, 29th March, The BBC will broadcast the opera live from 17:50 on Radio 3. Audiences around the world can listen on bbc.co.uk and hear why the critics have outdone themselves in reaching for the superlatives: “Richard Strauss’s big year won’t get any better...

A MEETING OF MAESTROS…

Bernard Haitink celebrated his 85th birthday yesterday at a performance of Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten conducted by Semyon Bychkov. Here’s a picture of the two maestros together post-performance.