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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...

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...

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...

Watch as Semyon Bychkov conducts the UK’s brilliant National Youth Orchestra in a stunning rendition of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique

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...

Following acclaimed performances with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and with the students of London’s Royal Academy of Music, and Vienna’s University of Music and the Performing Arts (where he was awarded the Medal of Honour for his concerts with the Webern...

Quality is not negotiable: Semyon Bychkov – Principal conductor of the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln 1997-2010 Contributions from staff and players as printed in Semyon Bychkov’s final WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln concert programme, June 2010 “What really impressed me...

“As Semyon Bychkov takes his leave of the WDR Symphony Orchestra after nearly a decade and a half, he discusses his final project with the Cologne-based band whose fortunes he has transformed – an award-winning recording of Lohengrin. ‘The only reason to do it is...

Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, June 2010 “Nach 13 Jahren als Chefdirigent des WDR-Sinfonieorchesters verlässt Semyon Bychkov Köln. Es ist ein Abschied voller Stolz. Ein Gespräch über Jahre mit vielen Höhepunkten, neue Aufgaben und die Uniformität der Musik. Herr Bychkov, 13...

“The conductor Semyon Bychkov, 56, was born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) in the last months of Stalin’s rule and emigrated to the US in 1975. His appointments have included music director of the Orchestra de Paris, principal guest conductor of the Maggio Musicale...

Classical Source, Mansel Stimpson, September 2009 “As his website attests, Semyon Bychkov’s life is one rich in incident. To win a major conducting competition, the Rachmaninov, by the age of twenty one would be sufficient in itself to mark out his early life as...

Diapason, June 2007 “Comment est née votre affection pour la France? ‘C’est le pre-mier pays européen à m’avoir accueilli si chaleureusement. En 1983, j’ai dirigé Casse-Noisette de Tchaikovski à l’Opéra de Lyon ; l’année suivante, j’étais au Festival d’Aix-en-Provence...