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List Price: $23.98Price: $6.37 You Save: $17.61 (73%)as of 09/02/2010 11:52 EDT
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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: Matthews
Fabric Type: 0034571172705
Graphics Memory Size: Import
Manufacturer Labor Warranty Description: 20
Maximum Color Depth: Hyperion UK
Metal Type: Hyperion UK
Processor Count: 1
Total Firewire Ports: Hyperion UK
Total Parallel Ports: July 10, 2001
Hyperion UK
Disc 1:- Holst: The Planets: Mars The Bringer Of War
- Holst: The Planets: Venus The Bringer Of Peace
- Holst: The Planets: Mercury The Winged Messenger
- Holst: The Planets: Jupiter The Bringer Of Jollity
- Holst: The Planets: Saturn The Bringer Of Old Age
- Holst: The Planets: Uranus The Magician
- Holst: The Planets: Neptune The Mystic
- Matthews: Pluto The Renewer
- Holst: Lyric Movement For Viola And Small Orchestra
- Holst: The Planets: Neptune The Mystic (original ending)
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Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 10-JUL-2001
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The only genuine attraction for me here was to hear Colin Matthews' Pluto appendage. I suppose the musical planetoid has its peculiar modernist charms, but as has been pontificated ad nauseam elsewhere, it doesn't belong in the same solar system as Holst's classic suite (nor as science would now have it, in anyone's set of planets!). Matthews' Pluto is of an idiom far removed from Holst's veddy English brand of dramatic romanticism. In my opinion, it's best listened to in isolation...if at all. ... Read More
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Pluto was actually discovered when Holst was still alive, but Holst refused to be bothered with that entity. And he was right after all.
Now Pluto is no longer a planet, I doubt this recording will ever be re-released.
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I've always enjoyed recordings of Holst's "The Planets" - the quick intensity of "Mercury" - the lush romanticism of "Venus" - the battle frenzy of "Mars" - the majesty of "Jupiter" - and all the rest. And this is one of the better renditions of those numbers available.
But I've always wondered what Holst might have thought of "Pluto" - until this recording. Holst gave us classical interpretations of the planets as though they were gods - an interpretation that was held by those who gave ... Read More
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