Browse: SACD, Holst (composer)

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…

In Enigma, Andrew Litton is close-focused in detail compared to the familiar sweep of Boult’s recording, with very precise yet lively orchestral playing – notably in the swirling strings in ‘Troyte’…In... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) 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…

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…

It is quite a satisfying range: Karl Jenkins’s Chums!, the sole 21st-century piece, is a lively and inventive romp, while Susan Spain-Dunk’s Rhapsody Quintet of 1920 is mostly marked ‘espressivo’... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 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…