Mark Elder, Hallé Orchestra – Gustav Holst: The Planets, Colin Matthews: Pluto (2002)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 / 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 1:57:06 minutes | Full Scans included | 1,98 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Hyperion SACDA67270
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 is the first recording of Holst’s ‘Planets’ with the additional planet, sumptuously recorded by Tony Faulkner in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.
The recording also includes Holst’s late Lyric Movement for viola and chamber orchestra, written in 1933, the year before Holst died.
Tracklist:
1 Mars – The Bringer of War 7:42
2 Venus – The Bringer of Peace (LAURENCE ROGERS horn) 7:25
3 Mercury – The Winged Messenger 4:05
4 Jupiter – The Bringer of Jollity 7:50
5 Saturn – The Bringer of Old Age 9:40
6 Uranus – The Magician 6:01
7 Neptune – The Mustic 6:45
8 Lyric Movement for viola and small orchestra, H191 11:49
Viola – Timothy Pooley
9 Mars – The Bringer of War 7:42
10 Venus – The Bringer of Peace 7:25
11 Mercury – The Winged Messenger 4:05
12 Jupiter – The Bringer of Jollity 7:50
13 Saturn – The Bringer of Old Age 9:40
14 Uranus – The Magician 6:01
15 Neptune – The Mustic (new ending) 6:41
16 Pluto – The Renewer 6:32
Note:
The SACD version of Mark Elder leading the Halle Orchestra in Holst’s The Planets, plus Colin Matthew’s new addition “Pluto” and Holst’s movement for Viola and small orchestra. The SACD has a different track order than the RBCD, with the planets presented in their entirety twice, in DST-compressed stereo SACD format.
Recorded in The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on 27-28 March 2001
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