Maestro Bychkov conducts the NDR Sinfonieorchester this week for 3 performances of Strauss’s ‘Don Juan’, ‘Burleske’ with soloist Bertrand Chamayou and ‘Ein Heldenleben’. Performances take place in Hamburg on 19 and 22 June, and in Wismar, as part of the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, on 20 June. This latter concert will be broadcast live on NDR Kultur Radio from 6pm GMT.

You can listen to Semyon Bychkov’s concert from Thursday 12 June with the Orchestre National de France performing music by Wagner with Christianne Stotijn and Strauss until 12 July here from France Musique: http://bit.ly/1nfmA1q