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...
Following an extraordinary performance of Britten’s War Requiem in London, Semyon Bychkov is now in California where he will conduct Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, before reprising the War Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony...
Chicago Tribune, John von Rhein “Especially now, with all the hoopla surrounding the centennial of Benjamin Britten, his contemporary and fellow Englishman, William Walton, has been shoved to the margins of our concert life. But Walton, who died in 1983, seven years...
Martin Kettle gives Semyon Bychkov four stars in The Guardian for his Remembrance Day Sunday performance of Britten’s War Requiem with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Kettle writes, “Bychkov’s conducting has a wonderful sense of line and...
