This summer, Semyon Bychkov returns to the 2017 BBC Proms for two performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra: on 6 August, he conducts Mussorgsky’s epic Khovanshchina, and at the end of the month on 31 August, music by Taneyev, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony. Decca are due to release Bychkov’s...

This Saturday, 1st July, BBC Radio 3’s Music Matters will broadcast Semyon Bychkov’s interview with Tom Service from 12:15pm in which he talked about working with the students of the Royal Academy of Music, his ongoing Tchaikovsky Project, as well as preparing for this year’s BBC Proms. Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wmz11