Interview
Guy Braunstein and Semyon Bychkov in conversation with Terry Martin
Works by Dmitri Shostakovich and Arnold Schoenberg with Semyon Bychkov and Guy Braunstein
For regular concert goers to Berlin’s Philharmonie he was a well-known face for many years: Guy Braunstein, who was the orchestra’s 1st concertmaster from 2000 to 2013. Here he is the soloist in Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, a work characterised by Jewish folk music, with its shifts between cheerfulness and anguish. Semyon Bychkov also conducts Arnold Schoenberg’s expressive classic Verklärte Nacht.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Semyon Bychkov
Guy Braunstein
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