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Background: This new DVD from director Tony Palmer telling the story of Gustav Holst is the first ever film about this extraordinary composer. The full-length film biography of Holst will be premiered on BBC 4 in April. It includes previously unseen material with his daughter Imogen, his pupils Michael Tippett, Herbert Howells, Edmund Rubbra and the 102 year-old Elliott Carter, as well as a dozen pupils from St Paul's Girls School in Hammersmith who remember him from the time he was Director of Music at the school.

Holst led an extraordinary life. He taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert and allied himself during the First World War with a ‘red priest’ who pinned on the door of his church “prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression”. He hated the words used to his most famous tune “I Vow to Thee My Country” because it was the opposite of what he believed and he distributed a newspaper called The Socialist Worker. Holst was a very great composer whose music - especially The Planets - owed little or nothing to anyone, least of all the ‘English folk song tradition’. He tragically died of cancer, broken and disillusioned, before he was 60.

“No-one makes better films about musicians than Tony Palmer.” - David Chater, The Times.

CATALOGUE NR: TPDVD173
RECORD LABEL: Tony Palmer Films
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: including VAT £ 13.49
RELEASE DATE: 22-Apr-2011

COMPOSER: Gustav Holst
TITLE: Holst - In the Bleak Midwinter
TRACKS: featuring: Katherine Jenkins / Kiri Te Kanawa / Russell Watson / Barbara Dickson & Troy Donockley / Mairead Nesbit & Celtic Woman / Gloucester Cathedral Choir / St Paul's Girls' School Orchestra & Yeo Yat-Soon / National Children's Choir Of Taipei / Savaria Symphony Orchestra & Tamas Vasary / Royal College Of Music Orchestra & Sian Edwards / BBC Symphony Chorus & Stephen Jackson / City of London Choir & Hilary Davan Wetton / Besses O' Th' Barn Band & James Holt / Royal Ballet School.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 16:9 / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 137 minutes / Recorded: Tony Palmer - Jul-2011 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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