Bernstein: A Quiet Place CD review – an intensely personal opera about loss

A two-CD chamber reduction of Leonard Bernstein’s 1986 opera, with Kent Nagano conducting the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, brings its seriousness into focus
Leonard Bernstein composed one of the greatest of all musicals in West Side Story, as well as, in Candide, one of the few 20th-century comic operas that is likely to persist in the repertory. But until the end of his life he kept trying to write the great American opera – something that would hold up a truthful mirror to American