Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season - Prom 4 - World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev
Performance Date20 July 2014
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:35
Orchestra or BandWorld Orchestra for Peace
ConductorsValery Gergiev
Set List'Three Paths to Peace', R Panufnik,
'Die Frau ohne Schatten – Symphonic Fantasia', R Strauss
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.6 in A Minor', Mahler
Performance NotesThe World Orchestra for Peace returns with its conductor Valery Gergiev for its fourth Proms appearance and its only UK appearance this year, the first of three UNESCO 2014 Concerts for Peace in Europe.

This classical supergroup celebrates Strauss's 150th anniversary with the colourful, fairy-tale soundscapes of his operatic masterpiece Die Frau ohne Schatten. Fantasy gives way to reality in the prescient tragedy of Mahler's Sixth Symphony, the glorious agony of its final movement foreshadowing the composer's own personal heartbreaks.

Roxanna Panufnik's Three Paths to Peace, commissioned by tonight's orchestra, meshes Christian, Jewish and Islamic musical traditions to tell the story of Abraham and Isaac.

European premiere of 'Three Paths to Peace', Roxanna Panufnik.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
The concert was recorded and broadcast on BBC Four on 14 August 2014.
The event was later released on Blu-Ray and DVD by C Major Entertainment and Select Music & Video Disribution Ltd.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/57),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide,
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£5-£38
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2014/57BBC Proms 2014 - Prom 420 July 2014
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work9894BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
DS/UK/1213Gergiev; Valery Abisalovich (2 May 1953); Russian conductor and opera company director
DS/UK/19199World Orchestra for Peace; 1995-; International orchestra
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