SEMYON BYCHKOV

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Success at the BBC Proms as reported by the Financial Times:

'For his farewell Bychkov took the orchestra on a last climb up the Alps, relishing the view from the summit in glowing colours and playing the closing epilogue with an expansive, valedictory eloquence... This was the conductor/orchestra relationship heard at its peak.'

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"Spiritual affirmation" at the BBC Proms!

"Bychkov is a remarkable conductor. His account of the Prelude to Wagner’s Lohengrin was simply ethereal... Bychkov’s podium manner is always elegant and unflappable, even in the face of torrential Alpine downpours. But the secret of his success is that he also captures the element of spiritual affirmation that underpins Strauss’s depiction of natural phenomena." (Evening Standard)

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Bychkov at the Berlin Phil: 'one simply had to revel along in its joy'

'Bychkov offered such a pleasurable dip into this wondrous bag of Ravel's magical sound that one simply had to revel along in its joy.'

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Semyon at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra: 'blazing, insightful and firmly controlled'

The Chicago Tribune described Semyon's concert with the CSO as a'blazing, insightful and firmly controlled performance led by Bychkov proved you can teach a warhorse new tricks, even one that has been a CSO signature work for the last 40 years'.

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