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Holst - The Planets (2018) #1116
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1 hour. BBC. 13th July 2018. Prom 1. Holst’s ever-popular suite premiered in 1918, composed as a response to The First World War. With the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo. Orchestra - BBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor - Sakari Oramo Choir - National Youth Choir of Great Britain Composer - Gustav Holst |
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Holst: The Planets - BBC Proms 2015 (2015) #658
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54 mins. Susanna Mälkki conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. |
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Ten Pieces (2014) #842
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BBC. John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (1st movement) Britten: 'Storm' Interlude from 'Peter Grimes' Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King from 'Peer Gynt' Handel: Zadok the Priest Holst: Mars from 'The Planets' Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 (3rd movement) Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain Stravinsky: The Firebird - suite (1911) (Finale) Anna Meredith: Connect It |
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Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter (2011) #643
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Directed by Tony Palmer. With Tony Palmer, Gustav Holst, Imogen Holst, Michael Tippett. 2 hours 20mins. BBC. The first ever full-length film about Gustav Holst, composer and revolutionary - a man who taught himself Sanskrit; lived in a street of brothels in Algiers; cycled into the Sahara Desert; allied himself during the First World War with a 'red priest' who pinned on the door of his church 'prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression'; hated the words used to his most famous tune, I Vow to Thee My Country, because it was the opposite of what he believed; and distributed a newspaper called the Socialist Worker. Holst's music - especially the Planets - owed little or nothing to anyone, least of all the English folk song tradition, but he was a great composer who died of cancer, broken and disillusioned, before he was 60. |
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Holst - The Planets (2004) #608
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This visualisation of Gustav Holst's orchestral masterpiece 'The Planets' and Colin Matthews' additional movement 'Pluto, the Renewer' features images which enhance the symbolic meaning attributed to each planet by the composer. Directed by Rhodri Huw, this audiovisual experience enthralled a massive TV audience with a blend of images filmed in many locations around the world (including New Mexico, Arizona and Scandinavia), computer graphics, animatronics and an atmospheric performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. |
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The Planets (1983) #605
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Directed by Ken Russell. Based on the famous Gustav Holst musical suite, this musical film takes watchers on a magnificent journey of the planets of the Solar System. |