If you're only ever going to get one disc of the music of Gustav Holst, one of them should be a recording of The Planets. Brilliantly scored, wonderfully evocative, and wholly memorable, The Planets is justly Holst's most popular work and there have been dozens of great recordings of the work from the first Boult to the last. But if you're looking to try a second disc of the music of Gustav Holst, try this one from 1994 by Richard Hickox conducting the London Symphony Orchestra on Chandos. The Lyrita recordings were swell ...
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If you're only ever going to get one disc of the music of Gustav Holst, one of them should be a recording of The Planets. Brilliantly scored, wonderfully evocative, and wholly memorable, The Planets is justly Holst's most popular work and there have been dozens of great recordings of the work from the first Boult to the last. But if you're looking to try a second disc of the music of Gustav Holst, try this one from 1994 by Richard Hickox conducting the London Symphony Orchestra on Chandos. The Lyrita recordings were swell in their day, but for a modern recording of convincing performances of Holst's best orchestral works that aren't The Planets, this disc has got the goods. The London Symphony Orchestra plays as well as it ever has, which is to say, superbly. Hickox conducts with sympathy and strength and he holds the L.S.O. in the palm of his hand. Together, Hickox and the L.S.O. play Holst's A Fugal Overture with panache and élan, his A Somerset Rhapsody with pastoral intensity, and his Scherzo with...
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