Imogen Holst Conducts Gustav Holst

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Label
Lyrita
Release Date
November 1, 2006
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GUSTAV HOLST
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      English Chamber Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Imogen Holst
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 01, 2006
    • UPC
      5020926022325
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SRCD223
    • LABEL
      Lyrita
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Country Song

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    2. No. 2. Marching Song

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    3. I. Moderato

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: William Bennett, Peter Graeme

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    4. II. Adagio

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: William Bennett, Peter Graeme

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    5. III. Allegro

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: William Bennett, Peter Graeme

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    6. The Golden Goose, Op. 45, No. 1

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    7. A Moorside Suite: II. Nocturne (arr. for orchestra)

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    8. I. Scherzo

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Emanuel Hurwitz, Kenneth Sillito

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    9. II. Lament

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Emanuel Hurwitz, Kenneth Sillito

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    10. III. Variations on a Ground

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Emanuel Hurwitz, Kenneth Sillito

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    11. Lyric Movement

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Cecil Aronowitz

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    12. I. Prelude

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    13. II. Air

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    14. III. Dance

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    15. Capriccio (arr. I. Holst for orchestra)

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: Imogen Holst


Another splendid trawl through the treasurable Lyrita back-catalogue. Here's an uncommonly wide-ranging and generous selection of Holstian delights, encompassing music as stylistically diverse as the folk-song bumptiousness of the early Two songs without words (a VW dedication from 1906) to the ''tender austerity'' (to use the composer's own phrase) of the Lyric Movement for viola and chamber orchestra—a most haunting creation from his penultimate year. Elsewhere, we are offered such rarities as the colourful Golden Goose ballet music and Capriccio (both expertly reworked by Holst's daughter, Imogen), the gritty Double Concerto of 1929, as well as the composer's own string orchestra transcription of the tender ''Nocturne'' from A Moorside Suite—a marvellous work, scored originally for brass band (I do wish Decca would restore their superb Grimethorpe Colliery Band version to currency). The enchanting Brook Green Suite is here, too, but the outstanding account of the popular St Paul's Suite which came with it on that 1967 LP anthology will have to wait a little longer for its silver-disc debut.

Performances throughout possess unfailing insight, and the present remasterings are superb. An essential companion disc to Lyrita's classic Holst/Boult compilation from last year (7/92).

-- Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone [4/1993]