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…
Browsing: Semyon Bychkov
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…
Industry News
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…
Lebrecht Weekly – Tchaikovsky: 6th symphony, Romeo & Juliet overture (Decca)
For a troubled London teenager in the 1960s there were three available sources of relief. One was illegal, one was immoral and the third was…
Video of the Day – Bychkov Conducts Shostakovich
This is some of the most terrifying music ever written; the scherzo from the Symphony No. 8 by Shostakovich. Here is a performance that is…
