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Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Catriona Morison, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Pueri gaudentes, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov)

A Mahler Three persuasively cast as a slow-turning kaleidoscope.

March 10, 2025
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Opera, Orchestral, Vocal & Choral
features

On the Record: November 2024

This month features a Kurt Weill trifecta, idiomatic Dvořák symphonies from the Czech Phil, a major Joshua Bell rediscovery and a radical take on Mozart’s Requiem.

October 21, 2024
Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 ,9 (Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov)

Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic revel in tilling Bohemian soil and soul.

October 16, 2024
Classical Music, Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Dvořák: Rusalka (Asmik Grigorian, David Butt Philip, Aleksei Isaev, Sarah Connolly, Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus, Semyon Bychkov)

Conductor and cast lend musical weight as Dvořák’s fairytale goes green.

August 26, 2024
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Opera, Orchestral, Vocal & Choral
features

On the Record: May 2024

A Frenchwoman’s resurrected Faust is Recording of the Month alongside an opera-fest that includes Kaufmann’s Parsifal. Smetana, Stravinsky, Debussy and Rózsa also feature.

April 22, 2024
Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Smetana: Ma Vlast (Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov)

Bychkov embraces his inner Czech with a magisterial national masterpiece.

April 17, 2024
Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov)

Another outstanding release in Bychkov's complete survey of Mahler's symphonies.

November 13, 2023
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Opera, Orchestral
news

Voting closes Sunday for Limelight’s 2023 Artists of the Year

There's one week left to vote for your favourite Artist of the Year – and the race is neck and neck.

October 10, 2023
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Opera, Orchestral, Vocal & Choral
news

Who will be Limelight’s 2023 Artists of the Year? Help us decide

It’s time to vote for the Australian and international artists you’d most like to see honoured in this year’s Limelight Awards.

September 1, 2023
Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Semyon Bychkov)

Bychkov’s dramatic instincts craft a Resurrection full of light and shade.

July 14, 2023
Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Mahler: Symphony No 5 (Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov)

Bychkov's new Mahler Five puts all the others in the shade.

November 27, 2022
Classical Music
features

Semyon Bychkov on Mahler’s harmony and contradictions

The Russian conductor talks to Clive Paget about how he fell in love with the music of Mahler as a schoolboy back in Leningrad in the 1950s.

May 24, 2022
Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Mahler: Symphony No 4 (Chen Reiss, Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov)

A wondrous start to Bychkov and the Czech Phil’s Mahler symphony cycle.

May 23, 2022

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