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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Sydney Symphony's Grand Finale to 2022 featuring Holst's much loved orchestral suite The Planets.

One hundred years ago, a symphonic blockbuster was born in London. The Planets, by Gustav Holst, premiered on this date in 1918. The seven-movement suite, depicting planets from our solar system, has ...

Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets was a formative experience of musical fusion for me. It showed me at an early age that the largely abstract classical music I'd grown up with could be ...

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Exclusively Sunday in the Houston Chronicle: Gustav Holst got the planets wrong when he composed his famous suite The Planets. Now the Houston Symphony has done something to fix the problem. Or at ...

Gustav Holst’s The Planets (1914–16) has inspired countless sci-fi film scores and has long been a favourite of audiences at the BBC Proms. Ahead of its return this year, here’s a quick orbit around ...

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and conductor Dalia Stasevska, joined by Farnham Youth Choir, perform Holst's ...

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The English composer's supernova hit continues to obscure his jaunty, folk inflected St. Paul's Suite. In The Shadow Of 'The Planets' Lies Gustav Holst's Sweet Little Suite Morning Edition's series ...