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Semyon Bychkov: I played 8 years Soviet volleyball

Semyon Bychkov: I played 8 years Soviet volleyball

The Russian-born conductor of the Czech Philharmonic tells David Krauss in Speaking Soundly that he learned to manage pre-concert tension by playing volleyball from age 10 to 18 with Dynamo Leningrad.

‘My piano teacher was furious,’ he says. ‘Somehow I never injured my fingers.’

On his very first day in New York, he met two nieces of Rachmaninov, one of them Tchaikovsky’s god-daughter….

Listen here.

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