This page lists all recordings of Pluto, the Renewer, by Colin Matthews (b.1946) on CD, DVD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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Shirley Apthorp reviewed the premieres in the Financial Times (21st March 2006): "Rattle conducts the [Planets] suite with uncritical gusto, letting the orchestra’s lush sheen show... This audacious project is carried by Rattle’s flair, and nurtured with the optimal conditions needed to give new works a wider orbit. Watch the musical skies near you for further sightings of these rocky bodies" “…a magisterial performance, closely attentive to detail, in which the continental influences are highlighted as never before… The climax of 'Uranus' is a thriller: a massive build-up, with the famous organ glissando not spotlighted but spreading a great cloud of atmospherics in its wake. Rattle also makes the best case yet for Colin Matthews's 'extra' planet 'Pluto'.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2006 *****  BBC Music Magazine
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This lavish visualisation of Gustav Holst's orchestral masterpiece The Planets and Colin Matthews' additional movement Pluto, the Renewer features spectacular images which enhance the symbolic meaning attributed to each planet by the composer. PICTURE FORMAT: 16:9
LENGTH: 59 MINS
SOUND: LPCM STEREO
SUBTITLES: N/A
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When Gustav Holst composed his celebrated suite 'The Planets' during the First World War, the solar system was bounded by the orbit of Neptune ('The Mystic' in Holst's astrological subtitle)—which Holst naturally placed at the end of his masterpiece. It was not until fifteen years later that American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, trying to find the reason for peculiarities in Neptune's orbit, realised that there was another planet further out whose gravitational pull was influencing it. And so was discovered the dark, remote and mysterious world of Pluto, named after the king of the Underworld. The discovery was made but three years before Holst's death, but he never expressed any intention of adding it to his by-then famous work. Sixty years later, invited to do so by The Hallé Orchestra, the challenge was taken up by Colin Matthews whose 'Pluto—The Renewer' emerges eerily from the disappearing final bars of 'Neptune'. This was the first recording of Holst's 'Planets' with the additional planet, sumptuously recorded by Tony Faulkner in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. The CD also includes Holst's late Lyric Movement for viola and chamber orchestra, written in 1933, the year before the composer died. Originally issued on CDA67270 “Wonderfully imaginative [Pluto] – a lightning-fast scherzo that grows out of the dying moments of a preceding Neptune and finally evaporates as mysteriously as it started” The Guardian “Holstians will be grateful for a beautiful account of the melancholy Lyric Movement, but for those mainly interested in The Planets this has few rivals as a performance” International Record Review “Colin Matthews has finally completed the picture with Pluto, and hearing it on this fine recording alongside Holst’s original, the scale of his achievement becomes clear. Fast, pacy and light like the solar winds of the planet itself, Colin Matthews has enhanced our enjoyment and appreciation of Holst’s original work, beautifully and movingly played here by the Hallé Orchestra under Mark Elder” Classic FM Magazine “Pluto is an exhilaratingly fleet essay, laced with Holstian allusions. Elder also presides over a perceptive account of the haunting 1933 Lyric Movement … Here’s to more high-quality productions from this new partnership” Gramophone Magazine “[Matthews] succeeds miraculously in evoking Holst’s spirit while remaining genuine Matthews. This disc is a highly desirable addition to anyone’s collection” BBC Music Magazine | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Adès: | Asyla | Arnold: | Guitar Concerto, Op. 67 Julian Bream (guitar) | Debussy: | Estampe No. 1 - Pagodes (arr. Grainger) | Elgar: | Enigma Variations, Op. 36 Grania and Diarmid, Op. 42 - Incidental Music Falstaff - Symphonic Study in C minor, Op. 68 Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 Nigel Kennedy (violin) The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38 Dame Janet Baker (mezzo), John Mitchinson (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone) CBSO Chorus Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G major, Op. 39 No. 4 | Grainger: | In a Nutshell, suite Train Music Country Gardens Lincolnshire Posy The Warriors Malcolm Wilson, Roderick Elms and Wayne Marshall (pianos) | Holst: | The Planets, Op. 32 | Knussen: | Flourish with Fireworks | Matthews, C: | Pluto, the Renewer | Maw, N: | Odyssey | Ravel: | La Vallee des Cloches (Miroirs No. 5) (arr. Grainger) | Turnage: | Drowned Out Kai Ulrich Heinen (cello) Three Screaming Popes Momentum Ceres | Vaughan Williams: | The Lark Ascending Nigel Kennedy (violin) On Wenlock Edge Robert Tear (tenor) Songs of Travel Thomas Allen (baritone) | Walton: | Cello Concerto Lynn Harrell (cello) Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor Belshazzar's Feast Thomas Hampson (baritone) |
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