ON the eve of its 127th season, the Czech Philharmonic has introduced that it’s to resume its current contract with chief conductor and music director Semyon Bychkov.
The conductor, who has been with the orchestra since 2018, has now signed a brand new contract which retains him within the function till 2028. The announcement was made forward of the Czech Phil’s season opener: a live performance that includes Beethoven’s Violin Concerto carried out by Lisa Batiashvili, and Strauss’s Alpine Symphony.
Semyon Bychkov’s tenure with the Czech Philharmonic started with a tour to have fun 100 years of Czechoslovak independence. The next yr noticed the discharge of The Tchaikovsky Venture. Launched by Decca Classics, this marked the end result of 4 years of Tchaikovsky efficiency by Bychkov and the orchestra.
Extra not too long ago, April 2022 noticed the beginning of a brand new Mahler symphonic cycle by Bychkov and the Czech Phil on Pentatone. The opening disc, that includes Symphony No.4, earned a five-star evaluate from us. That launch will probably be adopted, on 14 October, by the discharge of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony from the identical forces.
Persevering with the Mahler theme, the orchestra’s 2022-23 season can even characteristic performances of the composer’s Sixth and Seventh Symphonies, in Paris, Brussels, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna, Milan and the Gewandhaus Mahler Competition in Leipzig. Each symphonies can even be set down again house in Prague.
Initially of September, Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic celebrated the Czech Republic’s EU Council Presidency with a particular live performance held on a stage floating on the Vltava River. Just a few weeks later, conductor and orchestra introduced their first opera collectively: Dvořák’s Rusalka, with Asmik Grigorian within the title function.
Describing the primary of three live performance performances broadcast stay and introduced as a part of the 2022 Dvořák Prague Worldwide Music Competition, Czech Radio enthused that ‘Semyon Bychkov actually labored magic’.
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