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.
Maestro Bychkov is now in his second week of rehearsals at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten. Directed by Claus Guth, the production runs for 7 performances with the opening night on Friday 14th March, and performances...
Semyon Bychkov has returned to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam this week. As part of the orchestras ‘Great Maestros’ series he will conduct Schubert’s ‘Great’ C major Symphony No. 9 in four performances at the legendary Concertgebouw Hall – at 20.15 on...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03pdh5l/Radio_3_Live_in_Concert_BBC_Symphony_Orchestra_Shostakovich_Martinu/ Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in performances of Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony and Martinu’s Concerto for Two Pianos &...
Shostakovich’s war-torn Seventh Symphony forms the centrepiece of Semyon Bychkov’s concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at London’s Barbican Hall on Thursday 16th January. In the Independent on Sunday he talks to Gavin Plumley about his conception of the piece, and...
Semyon Bychkov kicks off his 2014 calendar with a keenly-awaited return visit to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. His trio of subscription concerts on 10th, 11th and 12th January will see him conduct Shostakovich’s incendiary Symphony No. 11 ‘The Year 1905’, and...
