Bernstein conducts Schuman: Symphony No. 1 in B Flat Major “Spring”

A ringing fanfare opens Robert Schumann’s “Spring” symphony; an exuberant outpouring of poetry, colour and pure creative joie de vivre, created by a composer in love. For Leonard Bernstein, Schumann’s first symphony was the gateway to a whole new world of the Romantic imagination, and this first instalment in his 1984 Schumann symphony cycle – captured live in the golden hall of Vienna’s Musikverein – has all the energy and generosity you’d expect from this most outgoing of maestros. But it has an unmistakable grandeur too, with playing of rare beauty and spontaneity from Bernstein’s beloved Vienna Philharmonic.

Ensemble: 

Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductor: 

Leonard Bernstein