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In 2014 the World Orchestra for Peace and conductor Valery Gergiev returned for its fourth appearance to the BBC Proms stage to commemorate the centennial of the outbreak of WW1.The concert featured Roxanna Panufnik’s Three Paths to Peace, an orchestra commission, Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, and the Symphonic Fantasia from Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten.Founded in 1995 by Sir Georg Solti, The World Orchestra for Peace is made up of leading players from the world’s finest orchestras.Includes a documentary honoring the orchestra’s 20th anniversary, Charles Kaye’s From War To Peace.

THE UNESCO CONCERT FOR PEACE

Richard Strauss: Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten, TrV 234a

Roxanna Panufnik: Three Paths to Peace

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A Minor, “Tragic”

World Orchestra for Peace
Valery Gergiev, conductor

Recorded at the BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, 20 July 2014

FROM WAR TO PEACE

A documentary by Charles Kaye

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Language: German, English
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish
Running time: 114 mins (concert) + 37 mins (documentary)
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