Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 & The Mystic Trumpeter, Op. 18

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
April 1, 2002
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HOLST
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus
    • PERFORMER
      Fem, David, Lloyd-Jones
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 01, 2002
    • UPC
      747313577620
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8555776
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Mars, the Bringer of War

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones

    2. II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones

    3. III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones

    4. IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones

    5. V. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones

    6. VI. Uranus, the Magician

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones

    7. VII. Neptune, the Mystic

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Female members Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones

    8. Pluto, the Renewer

      Composer: Colin Matthews

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones

    9. The Mystic Trumpeter, Op. 18

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

      Performer: Claire Rutter

      Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones


Holst's The Planets received it's 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 various planets of the solar system. The new eighth movement, Pluto, was commissioned from Colin Matthews, as an 'appendix' to the Suite, the planet Pluto having been discovered on a few years before Holst's death. 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.