London Symphony Orchestra
Humphrey Burton introduces a gala concert given at London's Barbican Hall, celebrating the music of Leonard Bernstein. With well-known favourites from West Side Story and Candide, and the Second Symphony, which is based on Auden's poem The Age of Anxiety. Kim Criswell (soprano), Jean Yves-Thibaudet (piano), Maida Vale Singers, London
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Marin Alsop Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs; Symphony No 2 (The Age of Anxiety):
Prologue (Symphonic Dances) (West Side Story); I Feel Pretty (West Side Story); Somewhere (West Side Story);
Overture: Candide; I Am Easily Assimilated (Candide); Lament (Candide);
Three Dances (On the Town); I Can Cook Too (On the Town);
Overture: Wonderful Town; One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man (Wonderful Town); A Little Bit in Love (Wonderful Town); Island Magic (Trouble in Tahiti)