Leonard Bernstein Bernstein Candide

This is the historic concert performance of the final operatic version of Bernsteins Candide It was recorded on December 13 1989 at the Barbican Centre with Leonard Bernstein conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with a stellar cast of operatic stars gracing the solo parts The programme lasts a full 2hrs 27 mins It marks the end of a long and tortured journey for the musicaloperetta that spent much of its first 35 years as an orphan in the musical wilderness