Repertoire: The BEST Holst--The Planets

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How many recordings of the The Planets do we need? Here's a survey of the best dozen or so versions--a Planets for every occasion!

The Ultimate Classical Music Guide by Dave Hurwitz

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Great playing this Talk again, thx Dave

dsammut

BRAVO! Great presentation Sir! You are the right man for this job... LOVE IT!

MARRINER conducting the CONCERTGEBOUW from 1978 is my own TOP PICK! No version I have heard satisfies like this version - and I have heard most (not all).

Having this release on pristine original PHILIPS LP is a big advantage, I must say, but it still sounds great on CD or streaming. I'm a bit surprised that this version hardly gets a mention, but I'm okay if I am largely alone this choice. 🥰❤🙏

tonywainhouse

Surprisingly, John Williams also recorded the Planets with the Boston Pops (it's really telling how much of Mars he borrowed for the Star Wars theme music).

JaneSmith_

This is the review which cemented by admiration for your critiquing skill.

My "view" of Karajan's overall music interpretation is mixed; here with Holst's PLANETS Suite* he is stellar. (I'm not sorry.) Of all the Holst-Karajan Planets, despite the majesty of Jupiter, the playfulness of Mercury, and the utter conviction of Mars, due to Karajan's expansive color palette, and slow as it is (and should be) Saturn ends up my favorite. Karajan's most skillful highlighting of the low:high pitch "LARGO finale" (unusual and difficult enough in itself to convince one's aesthetic sufficiently), here is of unexpectedly greater dramatic contrast/effect than expected. Tingles my toes while at the same time an ocean-sized waterfall massages me to the marrow. Uberchills..! Sublime. Dare I say a "spiritual" or "religious" experience? (The contrast-consolation of the high strings seems a "little birth" at death.)

Much later than hearing this performance, I learned that Saturn was also Holst's favorite Planet. "Sweet" serendipity!

* I've always thought "The Planets" was a slight miss in titling and would have preferred "Dance of the Planets".

willsingourd

Dutoit/Montreal is by far my favorite. Wonderful overall but the trombones in particular are amazing on this recording, Mars is really scary! This was recorded during the one year Joseph Alessi played with Montreal before becoming principal trombone of the NY Philharmonic.

DanFlashes

That Karajan/Vienna recording is my fave too! The worst recordings for me are the ones sans Bass Oboe, which to me, is the signature instrument of the whole piece, replaced by bad Bass Clarinet or Bassoon playing!

The Pluto monstrosity can always be skipped, there is some fairly alright recordings with it tacked on the end as a bad stocking filler.

mogmason

I lived in Palo Alto from 1959 to 1981 . I did attend some concerts of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra. Were you playing Percussion then ?

richardwilliams