Prom 26 World Orchestra for Peace/Gergiev | Classical review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonMahler 5 with a side order of Mahler 4: this might sound like the overegging of an already fabulously rich pudding.Particularly for those who had heard the Third Symphony here only the night before. But the Albert Hall was packed for a rare appearance by Valery Gergiev's orchestral supergroup.In a sense, the World Orchestra for Peace is more a symbol than an ensemble. First assembled by Georg Solti for the UN's half-century, it has given barely more than a dozen concer...

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