The Planets
Album by Gustav Holst & Philharmonia Orchestra & Simon Rattle
The Planets is an orchestral suite by English composer Gustav Holst, completed in 1916. The work employs a large-scale post-Romantic orchestral palette with vivid orchestration, modal harmonies and varied rhythms to evoke distinct planetary characters, and it occupies a pivotal place in Holst's output and in early 20th-century British music for its expansion of orchestral colour and programme-led composition.
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- 1.Mars, the Bringer of War7:14
- 2.Venus, the Bringer of Peace8:58
- 3.Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity8:04
