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World Orchestra for Peace 10th Anniversary Release

Composer
Rossini, Bartók, Beethoven

Artists
Andreas Kohn (Don Fernando)
Albert Dohmen (Don Pizzaro)
Evelyn Herlitzius (Leonore)
Stig Andersen (Florestan)
Hans Tschammer ((Rocco)
Ruth Ziesak (Marzelline)
Herbert Lippert (Jaquino)
World Orchestra for Peace
Valery Gergiev
Sir Georg Solti

Catalogue Number
475 6937 4 PX2

International Release Date
August 2005
Listen
Mendelssohn - Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream

TRACKLISTING

CD
1 Mendelssohn - Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream (recorded Baden-Baden 1998)
2-4 Debussy - La Mer (BBC Proms 2000)
5 Stravinsky - Petrushka (St.Petersburg, 2003)
First ever release

DVD
1 Titles
2 Sir Georg Solti in conversation & rehearsal (12.00)
3 Rossini : Guillaume Tell (overture)
Bartók : Concerto for Orchestra
4 I introductione
5 II Giuoco delle coppie
6 III Elegia
7 IV Intermezzo interrotto
8 V Finale
9 Beethoven : Fidelio (Finale Act III)
10 Closing credits

RECORDING INFORMATION

Celebrate the first 10 Years of The World Orchestra For Peace 1995 - 2005, with this CD and DVD, released to coincide with the orchestra's 10th Anniversary Tour.

The CD includes of Valery Gergiev conducting the Orchestra in their 10th Anniversary year and a bonus DVD of the orchestra conducted by their founder Sir Georg Solti.

Sir Georg Solti formed The World Orchestra for Peace by bringing together 79 outstanding players from 45 of the World's greatest orchestras

The DVD shows Solti conducting the orchestra in their first ever concert (in 1995) - to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations. The concert took place in Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland

The DVD opens with a 12 minute film in which Sir Georg Solti explains the background to the enterprise and rehearses some key moments of the programme.

The DVD includes an optional 5.1 DTS urround Soundtrack .

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