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Imogen Holst Conducts Gustav Holst
Lyrita

Imogen Holst Conducts Gustav Holst

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Composer
GUSTAV HOLST
Artist
Imogen Holst
Format
CD
Label
Lyrita
Released
Nov 01, 2006
Catalog #
SRCD223
UPC
5020926022325

About

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]

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Country Song 04:26
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Country Song
    Duration
    04:26
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  2. 2 No. 2. Marching Song 03:37
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Marching Song
    Duration
    03:37
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  3. 3 I. Moderato 02:13
    Track
    3
    Title
    I. Moderato
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Performer
    William Bennett, Peter Graeme
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  4. 4 II. Adagio 02:50
    Track
    4
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Performer
    William Bennett, Peter Graeme
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  5. 5 III. Allegro 03:01
    Track
    5
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Performer
    William Bennett, Peter Graeme
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  6. 6 The Golden Goose, Op. 45, No. 1 14:51
    Track
    6
    Title
    The Golden Goose, Op. 45, No. 1
    Duration
    14:51
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  7. 7 A Moorside Suite: II. Nocturne (arr. for orchestra) 06:36
    Track
    7
    Title
    A Moorside Suite: II. Nocturne (arr. for orchestra)
    Duration
    06:36
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  8. 8 I. Scherzo 04:57
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. Scherzo
    Duration
    04:57
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Performer
    Emanuel Hurwitz, Kenneth Sillito
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  9. 9 II. Lament 04:07
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Lament
    Duration
    04:07
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Performer
    Emanuel Hurwitz, Kenneth Sillito
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  10. 10 III. Variations on a Ground 05:19
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Variations on a Ground
    Duration
    05:19
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Performer
    Emanuel Hurwitz, Kenneth Sillito
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  11. 11 Lyric Movement 09:57
    Track
    11
    Title
    Lyric Movement
    Duration
    09:57
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Performer
    Cecil Aronowitz
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  12. 12 I. Prelude 01:52
    Track
    12
    Title
    I. Prelude
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  13. 13 II. Air 02:34
    Track
    13
    Title
    II. Air
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  14. 14 III. Dance 02:46
    Track
    14
    Title
    III. Dance
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst
  15. 15 Capriccio (arr. I. Holst for orchestra) 06:02
    Track
    15
    Title
    Capriccio (arr. I. Holst for orchestra)
    Duration
    06:02
    Composer
    Gustav Holst
    Ensemble
    English Chamber Orchestra
    Conductor
    Imogen Holst