PLANETS, THE

Created on 06/12/2005
Latest update on 10/04/2024

Artist: Gustav Holst
Author: Gustav Holst
Label: Columbia
Year: 1925

Suite in seven parts, one for every planet (written in 1916). Pluto wasn't yet considered. The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by the author.

Covers:

1967:

New Philharmonia [conducted by Adrian Boult, who also conducted the first private performance (in the Queen's Hall in London, 1918); Grammy nominated]

1967:

Mothers Of Invention [part Jupiter in Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin from Call Any Vegetable and in '72 in Brown Shoes Don't Make It]

1970:

Love Sculpture [Mars on the American pressing of second album Forms And Feelings; Holst's heirs objected against a UK release of Dave Edmunds' guitar solo]

1970:

King Crimson [Mars as The Devil's Triangle]

1973:

Portsmouth Sinfonia [as Jupiter]

1973:

Manfred Mann's Earth Band [elements of Jupiter in Joybringer; top 10 UK; also in Saturn (Lord Of The Ring) and Mercury (The Winged Messenger) on lp Solar Fire]

1986:

Emerson, Lake & Powell [as Mars, The Bringer Of War]

1991:

Kiri Te Kanawa [the Jupiter part as World In Union; Top 5 UK]

1994:

Laibach [as NATO, their arrangement of Mars]

1995:

Ladysmith Black Mambazo [as World In Union '95]

1999:

Baz Luhrmann [as Jupiter]

1999:

Shirley Bassey [as World In Union]

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