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- Date Released: January 1, 2003
- Genre: Classical
- Label: LSO Live / IODA
Everyone has a favourite planet. What's yours?
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We Say...
Everyone has a favourite planet — is it the big, oh-so-English tune at the heart of "Jupiter" ("I vow to thee my country" for all you British hymn-singers!); or it is the dreamy measures of "Venus"; or maybe the last, "Neptune," which involves the first fade-out in classical music — a wordless women’s chorus blending with the orchestra before slipping away into nothingness. Holst’s seven-movement The Planets, first heard in 1918, takes its cue not from the individual planets' astronomical significance but rather from their astrological roles. This gives Holst a palette from which to draw some of his most visionary imaginings — and in crafting his individual visions of the heavenly bodies, he gave the film industry a vocabulary that it still employs. The LSO knows this work inside out — Holst himself recorded The Planets with them in 1926 — and under Sir Colin Davis gives an elegant performance that prizes beauty over drama.
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The Planets, Op. 32: I. Mars, the Bringer of War |
7:11 |
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The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace |
8:21 |
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The Planets, Op. 32: III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger |
4:16 |
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The Planets, Op. 32: IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity |
8:06 |
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The Planets, Op. 32: V. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age |
9:40 |
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The Planets, Op. 32: VI. Uranus, the Magician |
5:57 |
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The Planets, Op. 32: VII. Neptune, the Mystic |
6:48 |
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07 Total Tracks, 50:19 Total Length
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