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Holst: The Planets - Lloyd-Jones
Naxos 6.110004
Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid
Classical - Orchestral
Holst: The Planets, The Mystic Trumpeter Op. 18
Claire Rutter (soprano)
Ladies of RSNO Chorus
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
Holst's The Planets received its first public performance in 1919, and with it Holst achieved the first real success of his career. It is a remarkably effective work, very varied and brilliantly scored for the orchestra, with the character of each of the seven movements suggested by the astrological properties given to the planets of the solar system. The Mystic Trumpeter is one of the most neglected of Holst's major works. The several influences on the work, notably that of Wagner, are welded by Holst's passionate feeling for Whitman's words into an integrated and convincing whole whose vitality and exuberance have few parallels in British music of the period.
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