HOLST ORCHESTRAL WORKS VOL 1

摘要

This trilogy of lesser-known Hoist works, plus the better-exposed ballet from The Perfect Fool, will thrill listeners willing to undertake. Voyager-like, a journey beyond The Planets. Landmarks are familiar, with The Perfect Fool's blending of bold brass with Venusian cadences and silences, and a surprising Saturnian uncertainty underlying what should be a shaggadelic flourish of fertility for nature ballet The Morning of the Year (restraint perhaps exercised for its BBC commissioners). Between these substantial bookends sit the ten-minute The Lure, and a curious choral ballet of Grimm's The Colden Coose, supposedly written for amateurs to perform: they must have been fine amateurs! All tracks are taken from the 2009 Chandos SACD, which included a multichannel mix; the stereo versions here are offered by HDtracks.com as three 'bundles' or a job lot.