Warner Music Vision: 5144284672Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 |
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BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Symphony Chorus, Andrew Davis This highly-acclaimed performance on CD by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor, Andrew Davis, is accompanied by a stunning visualisation of Gustav Holst’s suite on DVD. The audio recording and film were both made in 1994. The accompanying film on DVD makes a powerful statement of Holst’s vision for The Planets. Three elements are combined – Holst’s music, stunning photography of the planets, and eloquent visual images of Holst’s own interpretation of the astrological significance of each planet, as revealed in his subtitles. The wealth of images used include a huge range of archive and historic newsreel footage, from sources such as the BBC, and NASA images from space: “The high spot of Andrew Davis's reading is undoubtedly ''Saturn'', whose remorseless tread has rarely in my experience seemed more implacable. Aided by orchestral playing that is both memorably concentrated and rapt, Holst's textures in the closing section acquire a breathtaking translucency, and how memorably the BBC SO brass thrust home the terrifying central climax………''Neptune'', too, is exceptionally successful: ethereally delicate tremolando harps set the scene for a tone-picture of exquisite beauty, graced by choral work of notable purity from the women of the BBC Symphony Chorus…... The spectacularly ample sound certainly makes the mischievous antics of ''Uranus'' a feast for the ears, and Davis handles the coda superbly, plunging the listener into a world which is truly unnerving in its bleakness” Gramophone Magazine (Original Gramophone review of The Planets on Teldec CD) | 
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