Semyon’s recording of Lohengrin with WDR is one of three recordings nominated in the Opera category for the BBC Music Magazine 2010 Awards. The nomination is a great accolade from the music industry and voting is easy and quick. All you have to do is go to www.bbcmusicmagazine.com/awards2010, find the opera category, and enter your vote for Lohengrin.
Voting is open from now until Sunday 28 February 2010, and as a voter you will be automatically entered into the prize draw which boasts three award-winning Yamaha MCS-1330 hi-fi systems, as well as all 18 nominated discs. The winners will be announced at the BBC Music Magazine Awards on Tuesday 13 April.
...as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle after Semyon's concerts with the San Francisco Symphony. The article continued 'Rachmaninoff didn't always think big, but when he did, the results can be electrifying in the right hands - such as those of guest conductor Semyon Bychkov, who led the San Francisco Symphony over the weekend in superb performances of not one but two of the composer's large orchestral works'
cd details"Bychkov and his Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra prove themselves top-rank Straussians, showcasing the Alpine ascent with gleaming strings, majestic brass and a wonderful sense of spaciousness."
Financial Times, April 2009
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Click here to see a clip of Semyon Bychkov conducting Strauss' Alpine Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic (Recorded in the orchestra's digital concert hall)
Semyon discusses Schostakovich with the leader of the Berlin Philharmonic...