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Holst Double Concerto St Pauls Suite Photo

Holst Double Concerto St Pauls Suite Photo

Holst Double Concerto St Pauls Suite Photo

Holst Double Concerto St Pauls Suite Photo

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Extraplanetary Holst
By J Scott Morrison
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)is best known, outside England anyway, for his sensationally popular orchestral suite ‘The Planets.’ Few casual music-lovers know any of his other works and certainly there is nothing else that resembles ‘The Planets’ in his oeuvre. But he wrote a good deal of music that is neatly made and ultra-English in character. He studied English folksong assiduously, as did his great friend Ralph Vaughan Williams, and much of his music quotes folksong or contains folksong-like melodies that Holst himself invented. That is very much the case in much of the music presented on this CD.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Lyrical delights
By Timothy A. Berg
There is a lot more to Holst than “The Planets”. Wonderful string writing that soothes the ear without being overly sentimental. I bought this for a daughter-in-law who plays that thankless instrument the viola when I heard the “Lyric Movement for Viola and Chamber Orchestra”. Hauntingly beautiful.

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