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:
New Philharmonia [conducted by Adrian Boult, who also conducted the first private performance (in the Queen's Hall in London, 1918); Grammy nominated]
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]
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]
King Crimson [Mars as The Devil's Triangle]
Portsmouth Sinfonia [as Jupiter]
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]
Emerson, Lake & Powell [as Mars, The Bringer Of War]
Kiri Te Kanawa [the Jupiter part as World In Union; Top 5 UK]
Laibach [as NATO, their arrangement of Mars]
Ladysmith Black Mambazo [as World In Union '95]
Baz Luhrmann [as Jupiter]
Shirley Bassey [as World In Union]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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