The Age of Anxiety

The London Symphony Orchestra performs Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 - "The Age of Anxiety", under the baton of the maestro himself. A very young yet seasoned Krystian Zimerman at the piano provides a broad range of subtle dynamics and tonal coloring. A truly special rendering of the work. Performed in 1986.

Since Bernstein's death there has been a tendency to ditch the symphonic tag and subtext of his Second Symphony (1949, rev. 1965) after W. H. Auden's "The Age of Anxiety" making it an eccentri...