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		HOLST, G.: Planets (The) / BRITTEN, B.: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rozhdestvensky)			1:07:56

The Planets, Op. 32

I. Mars, the Bringer of War

7:46

1.99

II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace

8:34

1.99

III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger

3:50

0.99

IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

8:16

1.99

V. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age

9:05

1.99

VI. Uranus, the Magician

5:54

1.99

VII. Neptune, the Mystic

7:59

1.99

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Henry Purcell, Op. 34

16:32

3.99

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By Dave Saemann
Fanfare
01-Jul-2012

This CD is a valuable souvenir of [Holst] at his best.

Rozhdestvensky begins The Planets with a Mars that is warlike and menacing, including superb contributions from the BBC brass.

In sum, Rozhdestvensky’s Planets is unique in my experience and grows on you with repeated hearings.

For Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide, the orchestra’s textures are marvelously clear, with well-judged balances. Tempos from one variation to the next are flexible, emphasizing the originality of the harmony and orchestration. The harp’s variation is particularly lovely. Rozhdestvensky’s superb technique brings out all the details in the variation for percussion. He takes the fugue rather quickly, seeming to find a

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By Gary Lemco
Audiophile Audition
19-Jun-2012

The ability of Russian-born musicians to transform their styles, like chameleons, into the national personae of others remains a pure example of artistic alchemy…Rozhdestvensky had made spectacular points with the British audience with British repertory, as is the case of the Holst The Planets Suite…

In both scores, the Holst and the Britten…the emphasis lies in non-sentimental readings of explicitly virtuoso vehicles for the extraordinary wind and brass players of the BBC. The extroverted colors of The Planets, especially its “Jupiter” sequence with its own grand hymn theme, assumes a hearty resonance, a full-blooded Technicolor spectacle that neither pines nor languishes in nostalgia. Rozhdesvensky’s

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