Czech Philharmonic / Seong-Jin Cho / Semyon Bychkov

Creative power and crisis – how closely these two states often lie together is shown exemplarily by works such as Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto and Smetana's 'Vltava'.

When the Czech Philharmonic, under its chief conductor Semyon Bychkov, devotes two evenings at the Elbphilharmonie to these…