On Thursday 4 February, the Czech Philharmonic will present the first of its own live-streamed concerts on Facebook. Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov conducts music by Mendelssohn and Bryce Dessner with soloists Katia et Marielle Labèque. In addition...

Replacing the originally planned concerts at the end of January in Prague, this week (25-29 January) Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic will start their recording sessions of Smetana’s Má vlast. Bychkov first conducted the Orchestra in the iconic work in October 2019...

Recorded on 12 December in Munich, Semyon Bychkov’s performance with the Munich Philharmonic will be streamed via their website on 19 December at 7pm CET. The programme includes Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with Elisabeth Kulman as soloist and Dvořák‘s Symphony No. 8....

Despite lockdown restrictions across Europe, this monthy sees Semyon Bychkov return to Italy where on 4 and 5 December he can be heard with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. They play Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony No. 3 and Mozart’s Piano...

Semyon Bychkov returns to Prague this weekend to start rehearsing for the launch of the Czech Philharmonic’s new concert series commemorating the Velvet Revolution each year on 17 November. On Tuesday 17 November 2020, their performance of Smetana’s Má vlast will be...

This October, the French television company Mezzo TV will cast a spotlight on Czech Philharmonic past performances with Semyon Bychkov. Broadcasting in 80 countries with a community of over 57 million subscribers, Mezzo TV will repeat broadcasts of three concerts...

El País’s Jesús Ruiz Mantilla recently caught up with Maestro Bychkov while he was in Spain preparing to perform works by Beethoven with the Euskadiko Orkestra. Read the full interview here via The Semyon Sessions section of this website:...

On 23 and 24 September, Semyon Bychkov and Czech Philharmonic launch the orchestra’s 125th season with music by Shostakovich and Dvořák. The second performance will be broadcast and streamed live on Czech TV, Mezzo Live HD and medici.tv. Following the two concerts in...

Semyon Bychkov returns to the podium this month for concerts in Spain and the Czech Republic. On Saturday 8 and Tuesday 11 August, Bychkov conducts the Euskadiko Orkestra in San Sebastián and Santander in Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and Symphony No. 3. Just over a...

The Czech Philharmonic has now posted photographs from the rehearsals and concert at Sychrov Castle at the end of June which saw Semyon Bychkov return to conduct the Orchestra for the first time since January and celebrated the re-opening of culture in the Czech...

Semyon Bychkov returns to conduct the Czech Philharmonic for the first time since the start of the pandemic this Wednesday 24 June in the beautiful grounds of the neo-gothic Sychrov Castle. Celebrating the re-opening of culture in the Czech Republic, music by...

This Friday 19 June, Semyon Bychkov returns to Amsterdam to conduct the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Starting at 8.15pm CET, the concert will be livestreamed on the Orchestra’s website, Facebook and YouTube channels – find out...

The Semyon Bychkov & WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln boxset released last month consists of 9 CDs documenting the Maestro’s tenure as the orchestra’s Principal Conductor between 1997-2010. Featuring works by Rachmaninov (The Bells, Symphonic Dances), Strauss...

On Wednedsay 27 and Friday 29 May, Semyon Bychkov’s performances with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven Symphony Nos. 2 and 7 will be live broadcast on hr2-Kultur and streamed on Arte Concert. Click here and here to find out more. Other streams this...

Catch opera streams conducted by Semyon Bychkov from Vienna’s Wiener Staatsoper this April: Sunday 5 April Wiener Staatsoper – Strauss’s Elektra recorded in February 2020 Cast: Waltraud Meier (Klytämnestra), Christine Goerke (Elektra), Simone Schneider (Chrysothemis),...

February 2020 sees Maestro Bychkov return to Vienna for performances of Strauss’s Elektra at the Wiener Staatsoper. He is joined by Christne Goerke once again who took up the title role under Bychkov at the 2014 BBC Proms and 2011 production at Madrid’s Teatro Real....

Semyon Bychkov today helped launch the Czech Philharmonic’s 125th Season Announcement with a special video message filmed from his home in France. You can watch the full video below and find out about the full season here:

We are traversing a very strange and unfamiliar moment in life. Suddenly most of us can’t do what we have always done. While those in the medical profession fight at great risk to save human lives, often lacking the basic tools we, as musicians, are unable to share in...