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Holst: Orchestral Works Volume 3

Susan Gritton (soprano), with BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis

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…
  • Release Date: 30th Sep 2013
  • Catalogue No: CHSA5127
  • Label: Chandos
  • Series: Holst Orchestral Works
  • Length: 69 minutes

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Contents

Holst: The Mystic Trumpeter, Op. 18, H. 71

Work length18:31
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  • Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Susan Gritton
  • Recorded: 6, 7 April 2013
  • Recording Venue: Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK

Hark! Some wild trumpeter

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Blow again, trumpeter - O, how the immortal phantoms crowd around me

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Blow again, trumpeter - O trumpeter

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Now trumpeter, for thy close

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Holst: First Choral Symphony, Op. 41, H. 155, Prelude

Work length3:38
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  • Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus
  • Recorded: 6, 7 April 2013
  • Recording Venue: Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK

Invocation to Pan "O Thou, whose mighty palace roof doth hang" (Chorus)

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Holst: First Choral Symphony, Op. 41, H. 155, I, Song and Bacchanal

Work length10:26
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  • Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Caroline Harrison, BBC Symphony Chorus, Susan Gritton
  • Recorded: 6, 7 April 2013
  • Recording Venue: Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK

Ia. Beneath my palm trees, by the river side (Soprano)

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Ib. And as I sat, over the light blue hills (Soprano)

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II - IV. Whence came ye, merry Damsels! whence came ye! (Chorus) - Within his car, aloft, young Bacchus stood (Soprano) - Whence came ye, jolly Satyrs (Chorus)

Track length2:09
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V & VI. Onward the tiger and the leopard pants (Soprano) - Bacchus, young Bacchus (Chorus)

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Holst: First Choral Symphony, Op. 41, H. 155, II, Ode on a Grecian Urn

Work length12:09
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  • Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus
  • Recorded: 6, 7 April 2013
  • Recording Venue: Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness (Chorus)

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those undeard (Chorus)

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Ah, happy boughs! that cannot shed (Chorus)

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Who are these coming to the sacrifice? (Chorus)

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O Attic shape! fair attitude! with brede (Chorus)

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Holst: First Choral Symphony, Op. 41, H. 155, III, Scherzo

Work length5:43
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  • Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus
  • Recorded: 6, 7 April 2013
  • Recording Venue: Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK

I. Fancy "Ever let the Fancy roam" (Chorus)

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II. Folly's Song "When wedding fiddles are a-playing" (Chorus)

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Holst: First Choral Symphony, Op. 41, H. 155, IV, Finale

Work length18:43
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  • Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Susan Gritton, BBC Symphony Chorus
  • Recorded: 6, 7 April 2013
  • Recording Venue: Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK

I & II. Spirit here that reignest! (Soprano) - God of the Golden bow (Chorus)

Track length3:15
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III & IV. Then, through thy Temple wide (Soprano) - Tis awful silence then again (Chorus)

Track length5:18
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V & VIa. Next thy Tasso's ardent numbers (Soprano) - But when Thou joinest with the Nine (Chorus)

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VIb. Bards of Passion and of Mirth (Chorus)

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VII. Spirit here that reignest! (Soprano) - Bards of Passion and of Mirth (Chorus)

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