Review | Czech Philharmonic: A Rare Treat of Czech Music in Canada
2024 is the Year of Czech Music. Inaugurated in 1924 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Bedřich Smetana, this tradition occurs every decade…
Browsing: Semyon Bychkov
Review | Czech Philharmonic Triumphs with Celebratory Program at Toronto’s Koerner Hall
The Czech Philharmonic’s guest appearance at Toronto’s Koerner Hall on Dec. 7 is part of a year-long series of concerts they are presenting the world-over…
Lebrecht Weekly | Lebrecht Album of the Year for 2024
2024 has been a flat year for major labels and an unsettled one for minors. Four independent outfits sold out – Hyperion to Universal, Bis…
Lebrecht Weekly | Dvorak’s Symphonies by Two Orchestras (Warner/Pentatone)
Comparisons in music are unfair. An ephemeral art cannot be measured and pinned, like a butterfly, to the page without risking mortal damage. Nevertheless, human…
Lebrecht Weekly | Album of the Year (2023)
Album of the Year? There’s quite a few, from Vikingur Olaffson’s Goldberg Variations to Yuja Wang’s Rachmaninov concertos, to Semyon Bychkov Resurrection Symphony.
Lebrecht Weekly | Gustav Mahler: 2nd symphony ‘Resurrection’ (Pentatone)
If ever you want to know why records are going out of business, look no further than the small print at the back of the…
Seong-Jin Cho: Beyond Chopin
Seong-Jin Cho shot to fame after winning first prize at the 17th Chopin International Piano Competition in 2015. Since then, Cho has played the Chopin…
Lebrecht Weekly | Album of the Year
No-one knew what to expect of 2022. In January, masked or locked down, we gazed into crystal balls of mortality. The chamber music of Harrison…
Lebrecht Weekly | Gustav Mahler: 5th symphony (Pentatone)
The opening of this performanced is triply reassuring. The naked trumpet solo is delivered with insolent ease; the sound is distinctively Bohemian; and the phrasing…
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Royal rebel Amid the avalanche of COVID-19-related cancellations, a few concert presenters persist in believing that the show can, and should, go on. The Royal…
