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The innovative nature of Holst's music caused some initial hostility among a minority of critics, but the suite quickly became and has remained popular, influential and widely performed. The composer conducted two recordings of the work, and it has been recorded at least 80 times subsequently by conductors, choirs and orchestras from the UK and ...
Manfred Mann's Earth Band used "Jupiter, bringer of joy" for his song "Joybringer". [22] The 1985 album Beyond the Planets, by Jeff Wayne, Rick Wakeman and Kevin Peek (with narration by Patrick Allen), is a rock arrangement of the entire suite. [23] The song "Hammerheart" in Twilight of the Gods album by Bathory is based on the fourth movement ...
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"I Vow to Thee, My Country" is a British patriotic hymn, created in 1921 when music by Gustav Holst had a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice set to it. The music originated as a wordless melody, which Holst later named " Thaxted ", taken from the "Jupiter" movement of Holst's 1917 suite The Planets .
The Planets is a seven-movement orchestral suite by Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916.Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its corresponding astrological character as defined by Holst.
Holst was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the elder of the two children of Adolph von Holst, a professional musician, and his wife, Clara Cox, née Lediard. She was of mostly British descent, [n 1] daughter of a respected Cirencester solicitor; [2] the Holst side of the family was of mixed Swedish, Latvian and German ancestry, with at least one professional musician in each of the ...
The official album of the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand was launched on 9 August by New Zealand soprano Hayley Westenra.It was released by Universal Music on 26 August, [8] [9] and included 22 tracks recorded by classical artists.
Masque; music for the play by Frances Ralph Gray Incidental music: 102: 27b: 1909: Stepney Children's Pageant: for orchestra: Incidental music: 102a: 27b: 1909: A Song of London: for unison chorus and piano: from the incidental music for Stepney Children's Pageant; words by G.K. Menzies Incidental music: 114: 1910: The Praise of King Olaf