Holst: The Planets - Britten: The Young Person's Guide to th

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Label
ICA Classics
Release Date
February 28, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HOLST BRITTEN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bbc Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Rozhdestvensky
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 28, 2012
    • UPC
      5060244550537
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ICAC5053
    • LABEL
      ICA Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Mars, the Bringer of War

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    2. II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    3. III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    4. IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    5. V. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    6. VI. Uranus, the Magician

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    7. VII. Neptune, the Mystic

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    8. The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Henry Purcell, Op. 34

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky


Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (b.1931) is the last living survivor of a great Russian quartet of conductors consisting of Mravinsky, Kondrashin and Svetlanov. He was the highly distinguished principal conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1978 to 1981, an exciting period in the orchestra’s history faithfully captured here. These recordings of Holst’s Planets and Britten’s Variations & Fugue on a Theme of Purcell have never been issued before on CD.