Browse: Holst Orchestral Works (series)

This latest instalment of Chandos’s survey of Holst’s orchestral works is far more than a predictable beachcomber’s delight. The quality of the performances is a feast in itself, the BBC Philharmonic... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018 More…

The only other recording of these ballets [The Golden Goose, The Morning of the Year] apart from ones of Imogen Holst's collations - is Hilary Davan Wetton's for Hyperion (1995), coupled with... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the chief asset...is soprano Susan Gritton's unaffected engagement with Holst's bright-eyed and full-hearted response to Whitman. Andrew Davis conducts a warm and idiomatic account. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Davis's new performance takes off with 'Saturn': this may not match the sense of weariness Boult conveys, but its inexorable progress is highly effective, and the bells for once sound as if they've... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…