Recordings Directory

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Boult conducts Holst

Lyrita | Lyrita – SRCD.222

Artists: Sir Adrian Boult, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra

Works: A Fugal Overture, A Somerset Rhapsody, Beni Mora, Hammersmith, Scherzo, Japanese Suite

Celebration (USAFB)

USAFB | USAFB BOL-9604

Artists: Lowell E. Graham, United States Air Force Band

Works: Hammersmith

Finzi / Britten / Holst: Choral Works

Chandos | Chandos – CHAN 8997

Artists: John Alley, John Mark Ainsley, Richard Hickox, Stephen Varcoe, City of London Sinfonia, The Britten Singers

Works: Two Psalms

Gustav Holst – ECO – Menuhin

EMI Eminence | CD-EMX 2227

Artists: David Theodore, Jonathan Snowden, Yehudi Menuhin, English Chamber Orchestra

Works: St Paul’s Suite, A Fugal Concerto, Brook Green Suite, A Somerset Rhapsody, The Perfect Fool

Gustav Holst Conducts The Planets

Pearl | Pearl GEMM CD 9417

Artists: Gustav Holst, London Symphony Orchestra, The String Orchestra

Works: The Planets World Premiere, St Paul’s Suite World Premiere, Beni Mora World Premiere, Two Songs without Words World Premiere

Gustav Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, etc.

Unicorn-Kanchana DKP(CD)9046

Artists: Osian Ellis, Sir David Willcocks, Royal College of Music Chamber Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Works: Hymn to Dionysus, Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda. Second Group, Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda. First Group, Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda. Third Group, Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda. Fourth Group, Two Eastern Pictures

Gustav Holst: Cotswold Symphony

Classico

Artists: Douglas Bostock, Munich Symphony Orchestra

Works: Symphony in F, The Cotswolds World Premiere, Walt Whitman World Premiere, Suite No.2 in F, The Perfect Fool, Scherzo

Gustav Holst: Duo Concertante

Classico | CLASSCD 122

Artists: Niels-Ole Bo Johansen, Ulrik Spang-Hanssen

Works: Duet for Organ and Trombone (Duo Concertante) World Premiere

Gustav Holst: Orchestral Music

Arte Nova 74321 34022 2

Artists: Edward Beckett, Malcolm Messiter, Michael Freyhan, Rachel Bolt, Ross Pople, London Festival Orchestra

Works: St Paul’s Suite, Lyric Movement, Brook Green Suite, A Fugal Concerto, Seven Scottish Airs, Morris Dance Tunes, In the Bleak Midwinter

Gustav Holst: Savitri (Phoenix)

Phoenix | Phoenix PHCD 145

Artists: Glen Barton Cortese, Ik-Hwan Bae, Jessica Miller, Kyu Won Han, Simon O’Neill, Manhattan Chamber Sinfonia, Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater

Works: Savitri

Gustav Holst: The Perfect Fool, The Planets

Arte Nova 74321 27785 2

Artists: Adrian Leaper, Orquesta Filamónica de Gran Canaria

Works: The Perfect Fool, The Planets

No Cover

Holst – The Planets – York2

Black Box

Artists: Fiona York, John York, York2

No Cover

Holst / Handel / Bach

Telarc

Artists: Frederick Fennell, The Cleveland Symphonic Winds

No Cover

Holst / Lambert: Works for Piano

Chandos

Artists: Anthony Goldstone, Caroline Clemmow

No Cover

Holst / Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics

Chandos

Artists: Timothy Reynish, Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra

No Cover

Holst / Vaughan Williams: Choral Music

Chandos

Artists: Paul Spicer, The Finzi Singers

Holst, Stanford, Bax: Piano Trios

ASV CD DCA 925

Artists: Pirasti Trio

Works: Short Trio in E World Premiere

Holst: A Choral Fantasia / First Choral Symphony

Hyperion | CDA66660

Artists: Hilary Davan Wetton, John Birch, Lynne Dawson, Guildford Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Works: A Choral Fantasia, First Choral Symphony

No Cover

Holst: A Winter Idyll etc.

Lyrita

Artists: Alexander Baillie, David Atherton, Lorraine McAslan, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra

Holst: At the Boar’s Head / The Wandering Scholar

EMI

Artists: David Atherton, David Wilson-Johnson, Elise Ross, Felicity Palmer, John Tomlinson, Michael George, Michael Langdon, Michael Rippon, Norma Burrowes, Peter Hall, Philip Langridge, Richard Suart, Robert Tear, Steuart Bedford, English Chamber Orchestra, English Opera Group, Men’s Voices of the Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Works: The Wandering Scholar, At the Boar’s Head World Premiere