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Heavyweight Shostakovich from Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic
In the 50th anniversary year of Shostakovich's death, the Czech Philharmonic bring two of the composer's greatest works to ...
Making Mahler grotesque – in a good way, plus the best of March’s classical concerts
Since her retirement from the operatic stage was announced in 2017 the great American soprano Renée Fleming has had more ...
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Wynton Marsalis brings a baggy monster to the Barbican, plus the best of March’s classical concerts
Wonderful though the players were, the credit for the energising clarity of sound and sureness of pacing must go to the orchestra’s Music Director Semyon Bychkov. He observed Mahler’s ...
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Heavyweight Shostakovich from Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic
Before he left the Soviet Union fifty years ago, the year Shostakovich died, Bychkov had been a student of lIya Musin (a friend of the composer) at the Leningrad Conservatory and served as an ...
Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic bring their rich sound to London — review
Barbican concerts featured works by Mahler and Shostakovich, including the latter’s Cello Concerto played by Sheku Kanneh-Mason ...