Holst: The Planets
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Composer: Gustav HolstConductor: Charles Dutoit
Orchestra: Montr?al Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Mars, the Bringer Of War
- Venus, the Bringer Of Peace
- Mercury, the Winged Messenger
- Jupiter, the Bringer Of Jollity
- Saturn, the Bringer Of Old Age
- Uranus, The Magician
- Neptune, the Mystic
Free Music Notes for Holst: The Planets
Free Music Review: The best of the 5 that I have
Hit: 5 Stars
I actually played my five different-orchestra copies of this CD and this one out-shone all the rest. Two of the others include these renderings:
Holst: The Planets
Gustav Holst: The Planets
They are very good, but not up to Dutoit's art.
This was Holst's Magnum opus and what a wonderful slate of music it is! I think I like it especially BECAUSE it's easy to compare one orchestra against another with this music.
I won't be so foolish as to try to describe, in a blow-by-blow detail, this spectacular, mostly beautiful music via mere words, other than to say that this is "modern" (not "contemporary") classical music. But it may be helpful if you know this: If you like the following pieces/CDs, you'll clearly love "The Planets," and especially Dutoit's rendition.
Elgar: Violin Concerto / Lark Ascending
Dvor?k: Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'; Slavonic Dances (Second Movement of "New World" Symphony)
Respighi: Pini di Roma; Fontane de Roma; Feste Romane
Hovhaness: Symphonies Nos. 4, 20 & 53; The Prayer of St. Gregory
For a quick check, (against other renditions), go directly to Track 4 and listen to that very moving late, middle-portion 2 minutes of "Jupiter" (up until they hit that Major 9th chord). That magnificent segment seals the deal on them all!
Don't pass this great CD by -- brilliantly conveyed.
Holst: The Planets Poster
Charles Dutoit often sounds better on disc than he does live. The reason for this is simple: he loves to play to the audience, and the result is all kinds of wild gesticulating that the orchestra knows perfectly well to ignore. Sometimes they ignore him completely, to the peril of the performance at hand. In the studio, however, there is no audience and the conductor is free to focus on the music. Dutoit has a real affection for The Planets and his performance is vital, insightful, and recorded in resplendent digital sound. The Montreal Symphony has a particularly powerful trombone section, which adds just that extra drop of energy to "Mars,"Jupiter," and "Saturn." A fine disc. --David HurwitzClassical Music CDs
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