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Holst - Orchestral Works

Label: Naxos
Released: 30 Apr 1998
RRP: £5.99
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Don't think about it - just buy it - By: Kamakiriad, 17 Aug 2008
..honestly you just can't go wrong at the price.
Demo quality sound & great music.
A must if you have got The Planets & are looking further into the music of Holst.
Other bargain CDs from British composers are:
Delius - Orchestral Works
Elgar - Orchestral Works
You must buy this recording! - By: B. Knibbs, 03 Jun 2005
This is a gorgeous recording & one of Naxos' amazing bargains - excelling quality for hardly any money. The "Somerset Rhapsody" is tremendously evocative - full of rousing melodies & brilliantly orchestrated, superbly performed too. The real revelation for me, though, is the "Invocation for Cello & Orchestra", which I would thoroughly recommend to anyone - an absolute gem of a piece - I can't understand how I had never heard it before as it is truly beautiful. The cello performance by Tim Hugh is perfect - very moving. The orchestra reaches inspiring heights too. You should buy this - you can't go wrong!
Explore Life beyond The Planets - By: Bernard Davis, 02 Jan 2003
If ever there was a one hit wonder of the Classical World it is Gustav Holst. Don't miss out on his other music, especiallly when it is as well played & such a bargain as here.

David Lloyd Jones & the Royal Scottish National Orchestra give us a varied selection of the composers shorter orchestral works. They appear to have a natural affinity for the composer's sound world which manages to be both rich & restrained at the same time.

Holst went on trips with Vaughan Williams collecting folk tunes & his Somerset Rhapsody makesan interesting comparison with Vaughan Williams folk influenced works.

Ben Mora mixes full blooded late nineteenth century romanticism with more modern ideas.It & the bold brassy Fugal Overture are the nearest things here to The Planets Suite.

The Invocation for Cello & Orchestral is given a wonderfully searching rendition by Tim Hugh on the Cello. It is grounded in the late romantics but also seems to reach forward in time sounding not so far from Gorecki or John Tavener's The Protecting Veil.

A sense of Holst as an early 'Holy Minimalist' composer is even stronger in Edgon Heath as a simple musical figure is slowly developed, graduallly appearing from the mists to achieve a beautiful resolution

I was initiallly disappointed to find that Hammersmith appearsin its original wind instrument version rather than the full orchestral one. But only until I heard it. Rarely has a wind band produced such a rich sound. This evocation of London near the River Thames callls to be heard next to Vaughan Williams' London Symphony.

Well, with something for lovers of the Late Romantics, Vaughan Williams,and the likes of Gorecki & John Tavener this is a disc that deserves wide attention. In fact it should appeal to anyone who enjoys the melodic side of twentieth century classical music. Don't let Holst be a one hit wonder any longer.