BaL 27.09.14 - Holst: The Planets

[MickyD]

I regret not getting this one, now only as mp3 sadly.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004872RGG/ref=dm_cd_album_lnk

I tried to find it a few days ago but misremembered the conductor as Barry Wordsworth. The NQHO website doesn't seem to exist any longer - does the orchestra still give concerts?

I have no idea...it would be a shame if they had disbanded. I liked their set of Wagner recordings and they could have gone on to do other things too, such as Elgar.

[cloughie]

I have no idea...it would be a shame if they had disbanded. I liked their set of Wagner recordings and they could have gone on to do other things too, such as Elgar.

I don't know either but it appears they were around in 2010!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/8038171/The-sweet-sound-of-a-self-sustaining-orchestra.html

and maybe still!

http://woodville.co.uk/s141.php

[Beef Oven!]

I've just ordered the CD for £1.50 (used inc pp)for the Jochum Enigma http://www.amazon.co.uk/Holst-Planet...olst+steinberg

Me too - thanks Rob.

At thirty-bob, it hardly matters that the last thing I need, is a another CD of The Planets!

P.S. I thought I had the Steinberg, but it seems I haven't, or it's disappeared in the mists of time.

[Hornspieler]

I think I must be the odd man out here.

I enjoy "The Perfect Fool", the short opera "Savitri", the recently aired "Beni Mora" and some of the lighter music pieces but, for some reason, "The Planets" leaves me cold. Maybe it's due to over exposure in my student days - confusion with Arthur Bliss' "Things to Come" and some of the works of Arnold Bax.

Sorry folks.

HS

[ardcarp]

Not Dunstable?

..ok, since Dunstable.

[vinteuil]

..ok, since Dunstable.

... what happened to Dunstaple???

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... what happened to Dunstaple???

Isn't that the retirement cottage of a office stationery supplier?



(Or even one that moves?)

[vinteuil]

ferney - you're a naughty boy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dunstaple

[seabright]

Stokowski's NBCSO broadcast of 1943 is the earliest non-British performance on disc and is still available (Cala Records) so should be on the list. Andrew Achenbach's 'Gramophone' review (May 2000) was very enthusiastic: "A 'Planets' crammed full of interpretative incident, superbly played by a legendary orchestra ... Stokowski's performance evinces a giant theatricality and abundant zeal that prove hypnotically compelling" ... though he does add "Purists should perhaps steer well clear"! However, he does sum up by saying that it's "a performance connoisseurs should investigate all the same" though of course the restricted sonics of a wartime radio broadcast won't put it in the running for any BAL.

Incidentally, does this on-line "Planets" Discography show a complete list of all the recordings of the work ever made? ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets_discography

[Suffolkcoastal]

Wasn't the Halle/Loughran recording highly regarded at one time, I can remember hearing the LP in the late 70's. Anyone heard Svetlanov's recording?

[Pabmusic]

Stokowski's NBCSO broadcast of 1943 is the earliest non-British performance on disc…

But Ernest Macmillan (Canadian) and the Toronto SO had recorded four movements the year before, so perhaps there's just enough room to swing an anorak.

[seabright]

But Ernest Macmillan (Canadian) and the Toronto SO had recorded four movements the year before, so perhaps there's just enough room to swing an anorak.

Indeed ... I should have said "first complete"! ... Incidentally, there are two Ormandy / Philadelphia performances available: a studio recording for BMG made in 1975 and then two years later a "live" performance that was issued on VHS and DVD. Curiously, there's a German DVD edition of the Philadelphian's "Die Planeten" that can be seen on You Tube, introduced by Ormandy himself in that very language ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtphY-4xjQw

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Incidentally, does this on-line "Planets" Discography show a complete list of all the recordings of the work ever made? ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets_discography

It's pretty comprehensive. Sometimes the "complete" Wiki lists can be anything but complete. At the risk of being boring, the Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie Wikipedia "comprehensive" list has approximately one third of all recordings missing. However, this Planets list seems pretty good to me.

[seabright]

It's pretty comprehensive. Sometimes the "complete" Wiki lists can be anything but complete. At the risk of being boring, the Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie Wikipedia "comprehensive" list has approximately one third of all recordings missing. However, this Planets list seems pretty good to me.

Interesting to note too, from that Discography, that of the 'foreign' orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic has recorded 'The Planets' three times: Karajan, Colin Davis and Rattle. I wonder whose is the best?

[Beef Oven!]

Anyone know if the Bournemouth SO, version conducted by George Hurst, produced by Brian Culverhouse on the Contour label is available?