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...
Universal’s ‘Virtuoso’ series has just re-released Semyon Bychkov’s recording of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Recorded in Berlin in 1986, The Nutcracker was one of a series of recordings that Bychkov made with the Berliner...
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...
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...
