Since Pluto has been deprived of planetary status by the International Astronomical Union and designated with the asteroid number 134340, there is no longer any need to append Gustav Holst's The Planets with Colin Matthews' Pluto, the Renewer. Never mind that Holst's conception was based more on astrology than astronomy, or that his out-of ...
Gustav Holst composed The Planets (1914-1916) well before the discovery of Pluto in 1930; though he lived until 1934, he felt no desire to extend his seven-movement suite to include a new piece devoted to it. However, at the urging of conductor Kent Nagano, composer and Holst scholar Colin Matthews has created an optional eighth movement -- Pluto, ...
This disc committed to chamber music of Colin Matthews is an entry in NMC's Ancora series, a worthy venture devoted to bringing back into print recordings of contemporary music by British composers that have been deleted. Some of these pieces go back to the LP era, and even had to be transferred from vinyl as the original masters have gone astray. ...
This is a reasonable performance of Holst's extremely popular orchestral suite The Planets, including a recording of the original version of the last movement of the same suite, Holst's much less well-known Lyric Movement, and a rare recording of Pluto, composer Colin Matthews' addendum to Holst's Planets. Though Mark Elder coaxes a brightly ...
For Oliver Knussen's 50th birthday, the London Sinfonietta collected 13 musical tributes to the composer/conductor from among the many composers with whom he had worked. The results are these brief pieces, all between one and five minutes long, scored for solo instrument, small ensemble, or full orchestra by some of the world's most famous ...
As the big-budget classical marketing and manufacturing apparatus necessary to support the release of albums by the major symphony orchestras of Europe and the United States has shriveled, several of those orchestras have taken the natural step of issuing recordings of their own live performances. The idea is a good one, inasmuch as it promotes an ...
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