24 Jun 2017

BERNSTEIN: Candide Overture

From Music Alive, 7:00 pm on 24 June 2017
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

 

The American composer Leonard Bernstein first shot to fame when he was appointed Musical Director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958.

But he was also a considerable composer and the exuberant overture to his post-war comic operetta Candide has become something of a hit in its own right

 

Recorded 8 July 2016, Air Force Museum, Wigram by RNZ Concert.

Engineer: Darryl Stack