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[email protected] SEMYON BYCHKOV TO RETURN TO THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC BRAHMS’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with Violinist LISA BATIASHVILI and Cellist GAUTIER CAPUÇON BRAHMS’s Symphony No. 1 NEW YORK PREMIERE of Detlev GLANERT’s Brahms-Fantasie October 21–24, 2015 Semyon Bychkov will return to the New York Philharmonic to conduct works composed or inspired by Brahms: Brahms’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, with violinist Lisa Batiashvili and cellist Gautier Capuçon; the New York Premiere of Detlev Glanert’s Brahms- Fantasie; and Brahms’s Symphony No. 1. The performances take place Wednesday, October 21, 2015, at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, October 22, 2015, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, October 23, 2015, at 11:00 a.m.; and Saturday, October 24, 2015, at 8:00 p.m. “The music of Brahms is always intimate, no matter how loudly it’s talking. For me, this is the great paradox: the monumentality of Brahms is in its intimacy,” said Semyon Bychkov. “He was able to integrate everything that there is to life — action and reaction, objective and subjective — juxtaposing conflict and struggle with harmony and resolution.” In its review of Semyon Bychkov’s 2004 recording of Brahms’s complete symphonies, The Observer said: “Brahms is here accorded due respect and affection by the brilliant Russian conductor Semyon Bychkov. ... Bychkov [is] at his most magisterial in the stately first. Brahmsians will find it hard to find a more resonant collection in the catalogue.” Semyon Bychkov will again conduct the Philharmonic this season, leading Mahler’s Symphony No.