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CDs and DVDs featuring the composer Gustav Holst

CATALOGUE NR: 5615972  (barcode: 0724356159723)
RECORD LABEL: Virgin
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 13-Sep-1999

TITLE: Nocturne volume 2
TRACKS: includes:- The Planets - Venus, the bringer of peace (Holst). Concerto for 2 violins BWV1043 - Largo ma non tanta (JS Bach). Adagio for strings op.11 (Barber). Simple Symphony op.4 - Sentimental saraband (Britten).

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: almost two and a half hours of beautiful soothing music for the end of the day

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CATALOGUE NR: ING1003  (barcode: 5065001015021)
RECORD LABEL: IntegraRecordsUK
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 9.95
RELEASE DATE: 24-Nov-2008

TITLE: Midwinter
TRACKS: Veni emmanuel (Anon arr. Forshaw). Coventry Carol (Anon arr. Forshaw). Noel Nouvelet (Anon arr. Holland-Smith). Little Drummer Boy (Anon arr. Forshaw). In The Bleak Midwinter (Holst arr. Forshaw). This Is The Truth (Anon arr. Holland-Smith). I wonder as I wander (Anon arr. Holland-Smith). My dancing day (Anon / Holst arr. Forshaw). Es ist ein' ros' (Anon arr. Holland-Smith). Wexford carol (Anon arr. Forshaw).
ARTISTS: Christian Forshaw   Sanctuary Ensemble   Grace Davidson  

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CATALOGUE NR: COLCD127  (barcode: 0040888012726)
RECORD LABEL: Collegium
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 02-Oct-2000

TITLE: Blessed Spirit
TRACKS: At Our Departing: Requiem aeternam (Gregorian Chant) / Kontakion of the departed (Kiev Chant) / Selig sind die Toten (Schutz) / Blessed are they (Tchaikovsky) / Funeral Ikos (Tavener). Towards the gate of heaven: Domine Jesu Christe (Gregorian Chant) / O quam gloriosum (Victoria) / Psalm 121 (Walford Davies) / Requiem Aeternam (Walford Davies) / The Evening Watch (Holst) / Steal Away / There is an old belief (Parry) / A quanta qualia / Justorum animae (Byrd). Deep river. The Heavenly Kingdom: In paradisum (Gregorian Chant) / O felix anima (Bingen) / Audivi vocem de caelo (Sheppard) / Faire is the Heaven (Harris).
CONDUCTOR: Timothy Brown
ARTISTS: Clare College Cambridge Choir      

- Dec-2000 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: 5861662  (barcode: 0724358616620)
RECORD LABEL: EMI Classics for Pleasure
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 4.99
RELEASE DATE: 01-Nov-2004

TITLE: Once in Royal David's City
TRACKS: Once in royal David’s city. Adam lay ybounden (Ord). The Truth from Above (arr. Vaughan Williams). How far is it to Bethlehem? Personent hodie (arr. Holst). Myn Lyking (RR Terry). The Angels and the Shepherds (arr. Trevor). Of the Father's heart begotten. The Holly and the Ivy (arr. Walford Davies). Resonemus laudibus. Gabriel's Message. The Shepherds' Cradle Song (arr. Macpherson). Quem pastores laudavere (arr. Rutter). Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing? The Infant King. Sir Christemas (Mathias). O come O come Emmanuel. Alleluya a new work is come on hand (Wishart). Quittez pasteurs. Lully lulla thou little tiny child (Leighton). Remember O thou man (Ravenscroft). Sans Day Carol (arr. Rutter). A Hymn to the Virgin (Britten). O come all ye faithful. Hark! the herald angels sing?
CONDUCTOR: David Willcocks and Philip Ledger
ARTISTS: Choir of Kings College Cambridge      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: originally released on LP 1970 - first time on CD

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CATALOGUE NR: 25032  (barcode: 0809730503221)
RECORD LABEL: Divine Art
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.99
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RELEASE DATE: 04-Jul-2005

COMPOSER: Adam Gorb  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Orientale
TRACKS: Yiddish Dances (Adam Gorb). Caprice Arabe op.96 (Camille Saint-Saens). In the Steppes of Central Asia (Alexander Borodin). Beni Mora - Oriental Suite op. 29 No.1 (Gustav Holst). Orientale op.38 No.17 (Gliere). Balinese Ceremonial Music (Colin McPhee). Sangit Alamkara Suite (John Mayer). Hebrew Melody (Joseph Achron arr Auer / Goldstone).
ARTISTS: Anthony Goldstone   Caroline Clemmow    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Music for piano duo inspired by the East

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CATALOGUE NR: 9498192  (barcode: 5099994981926)
RECORD LABEL: EMI
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 04-Apr-2011

COMPOSER: Arthur Sullivan  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: British Ballet Music
TRACKS: Royal Philharmonic - Pineapple Poll : Scene 1 Opening Dance / Poll's Solo & Pas de deux / Belaye's Solo / Pas de trois / Finale / Scene 2 Poll's Solo / Jasper's Solo / Scene 3 Belaye's Solo & Sailors' Drill / Poll's Solo / Entry of Belaye with Blanche as Bride / Reconciliation / Grand Finale (Sullivan). A Wedding Bouquet - Tango & Waltz (Berners). Vernon Handley - Checkmate Ballet Suite T57 : Prologue - The Players / Dance of the Four Knights / Entry of the Black Queen / The Red Knight's Mazurka / Ceremony of the Red Bishops / Finale: Checkmate (Bliss). Louis Fremaux - Facade - Two suites for orchestra : Fanfare - Vivo / Scotch Rhapsody / Swiss Jodelling Song - Lento / Polka / Old Sir Faulk - Tempo di Fox-trot / Valse / Popular Song - Grazioso / Country Dance - Allegretto piacevole / Tango-pasodoble - Lento / Tarantella-sevillana (Walton). Adrian Boult - Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' op.36 (Elgar). Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden - The Rake's Progress: Sarabande & Orgy (Gavin Gordon). Robert Irving - Horoscope : No.3 Valse for the Gemini (Constant Lambert). Andre Previn - The Perfect Fool H150 op.39 (Holst).

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CATALOGUE NR: ONYX4086  (barcode: 0880040408628)
RECORD LABEL: Onyx Classics
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50
RELEASE DATE: 06-Feb-2012

COMPOSER: Bela Bartok  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Music From The Machine Age
TRACKS: Miraculous Mandarin Suite (Bartok). Ballet music from The Perfect Fool (Holst). La Valse (Ravel). Scythian Suite (Prokofiev). Ogelala excerpts (Schulhoff).
ORCHESTRA: Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Sascha Goetzel

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CATALOGUE NR: 8550823  (barcode: 0730099582322)
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 5.75

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: English String Music
TRACKS: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge - string orchestra op.10 (Britten). St Paul's Suite - string orchestra H118 op.29 (Holst). 2 Aquarelles - strings (Delius). 5 Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus' - string orchestra and harp (Vaughan Williams). Capriol Suite - string orchestra (Warlock).
ORCHESTRA: Bournemouth Sinfonietta
CONDUCTOR: Richard Studt

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: CDH55050  (barcode: 0034571150505)
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion Helios
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 5.75
RELEASE DATE: 03-Sep-2001

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: English Choral Music
TRACKS: Choral Dances from Gloriana (Britten). Choral Hymns from Rig Veda (Holst). Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks' (Bliss).
ORCHESTRA: Holst Orchestra
ARTISTS: Holst Singers      

- Feb-2002 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: DUX0677  (barcode: 5902547006772)
RECORD LABEL: Dux
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 13.25
RELEASE DATE: 16-Feb-2009

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Little Big Music
TRACKS: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge (Benjamin Britten). St Paul's Suite H118 op.29 (Holst). 5 melodii ludowych (Lutos?awski). Orawa (Wojciech Kilar).
ORCHESTRA: Silesian Chamber Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Massimiliano Caldi

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CATALOGUE NR: RK9805  (barcode: 4018767098051)
RECORD LABEL: Raumklang
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77

COMPOSER: Carl August Fischer  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Sonntagsposaunenstuck
TRACKS: Fantasie op.21 (Fischer). Rezitativ und Arioso op.24 (Bartmuss). Gebet op.65b (Muller). Aria - Cujus animam from Stabat mater (Rossini / Liszt). Duet for Trombone and Organ (Holst). Ave Maria - organ solo (Liszt after Arcadelt). Fantasia op.58 (Belcke). Via crucis - Die vierzehn Stationen des Kreuzweges - organ (Liszt). Hosannah Ein Sonntagsposaunenstuck - Choral Heilig ist Gott der Vater Hosannah (Liszt). Orpheus - organ (Liszt). Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetan Choralvariation op.16 (Schneider).
ARTISTS: Sebastian Krause   Gabriele Wadewitz    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: romantic music for trombone and organ

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CATALOGUE NR: 5677482  (barcode: 0724356774827)
RECORD LABEL: EMI Great Recordings
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 5.75
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RELEASE DATE: 11-Mar-2002
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COMPOSER: Edward Elgar  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Enigma Variations (Elgar). The Planets (Holst).
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Adrian Boult

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: This magnificent performance of The Planets, recorded with an opulent realism, brings to a final culmination Boult’s supreme understanding of this work. This account of the Enigma Variations is also a classic; a performance by a great conductor who has lived a lifetime with this music.’ Gramophone - Penguin Guide 3 star 'the reading shows this conductor's long experience of the work, with each variation growing naturally and seamlessly out of the music that has gone before'

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CATALOGUE NR: 8505154
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: 5 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 22.21
RELEASE DATE: 31-Aug-1999

COMPOSER: Edward Elgar  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: British Orchestral Masterpieces
TRACKS: CD1:- Falstaff-Symphonic Study op.68. The Sanguine Fan-Ballet op.8. Elergy op.58 (Elgar). CD2:- Somerset Rhapsody. Beni Mora. Invocation for Cello and Orchestra. Fugal Overture. Egdon Heath. Hammersmith (Holst). CD3:- Symphony No.1. In the Faery Hills. The Garden of Fand (Bax). CD4:- Cello Concerto op.120. Music for strings op.54. Two Studies op.16 No.2 & No.3 (Bliss). CD5:- Symphony No.1. Partita (Walton).
ORCHESTRA: English Northern Philharmonia and English Northern Philharmonia
CONDUCTOR: David Lloyd-Jones and Paul Daniel

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CATALOGUE NR: CDRSN3049  (barcode: 0743625304923)
RECORD LABEL: Resonance
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 4.99
RELEASE DATE: 04-Jul-2005

COMPOSER: Edward Elgar  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: This England
TRACKS: Serenade for Strings in E minor op.20 (Elgar). Irmelin Prelude. 2 Pieces for Small Orchestra : On hearing the first cuckoo in Spring RTVI/19 / Summer Night on the River RTVI/19 (Delius). St Paul's Suite op.29 No.2 / Brook Green Suite (Holst). Capriol Suite (Warlock).
ORCHESTRA: Royal Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Alan Barlow

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: an attractive collection of English orchestral favourites

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CATALOGUE NR: 6317832  (barcode: 5099963178326)
RECORD LABEL: EMI Masters
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 6.25
RELEASE DATE: 06-Sep-2010

COMPOSER: Edward Elgar  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' - orchestra op.36 (Elgar). The Planets - suite H125 op.32 (Holst).
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Adrian Boult
ARTISTS: Geoffrey Mitchell Choir      

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CATALOGUE NR: CRD2415
RECORD LABEL: CRD
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.53
RELEASE DATE: 07-Nov-2005

COMPOSER: Edward Elgar  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: English Music for Brass
TRACKS: Severn Suite (Elgar). Overture Henry V (Vaughan Williams). Moorside Suite (Holst). Comedy Overture (Ireland). The First Shoot (Walton). Festal Brass with Blues (Tippett). Russian Funeral (Britten). Downland Suite (Ireland).
CONDUCTOR: James Stobart
ARTISTS: London Collegiate Brass      

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CATALOGUE NR: 4481702  (barcode: 0028944817027)
RECORD LABEL: Double Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 9.19

COMPOSER: Edward Elgar  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: The Dream of Gerontius op.38 (Elgar). The Hymn of Jesus op.37 (Holst). Sea Drift (Delius).
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: King's College Cambridge Choir   John Shirley-Quirk   Yvonne Minton   Peter Pears

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Elgar is a Penguin 2/3 star. - Penguin Guide 1994 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 222897  (barcode: 4011222228970)
RECORD LABEL: Membran
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.69
RELEASE DATE: 09-Jan-2006

COMPOSER: Edward Elgar  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: English String Music
TRACKS: Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and Orchestra op.47 (Elgar). Serenade for Strings in E minor op.20 (Elgar). Aquarelle No.1. Aquarelle No.2 (Delius). Capriol Suite (Warlock). Brook Green - Suite for String Orchestra H190 (Holst). Henry V excerpts : The Death of Falstaff / Touch her soft lips and part (Walton). Suite for String Orchestra : Rondeau / Slow Air / Air / Minuet / Allegro (Purcell arr. Coates).
ORCHESTRA: Royal Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Barry Wordsworth

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1994

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CATALOGUE NR: 6975882  (barcode: 5099969758829)
RECORD LABEL: EMI
FORMAT: 11 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 33.95
RELEASE DATE: 07-Sep-2009

COMPOSER: Edward Elgar  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Simon Rattle Edition - British Music
TRACKS: Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' op.36 (Elgar). Grania and Diarmid - Incidental Music op.42 (Elgar). Falstaff - Symphonic Study in C minor op. 68 (Elgar). Violin Concerto in B minor op.61 (Elgar). The Lark Ascending - Romance for violin and orchestra (Vaughan Williams). Cello Concerto (Walton). The Dream of Gerontius op.38 (Elgar). Symphony No.1 in B flat minor (Walton). Belshazzar's Feast (Walton). The Planets : Mars the Bringer of War / Venus the Bringer of Peace / Mercury the Winged Messenger / Jupiter the Bringer of Jollity / Saturn the Bringer of Old Age / Uranus the Magician / Neptune the Mystic (Holst). Pluto the Renewer (Colin Matthews). On Wenlock Edge : On Wenlock Edge / From far from eve and morning / Is my team ploughing? / Oh when I was in love with you / Bredon Hill / Clun (Vaughan Williams). Songs of Travel : The Vagabond / Let beauty awake / The Roadside Fire / Youth and Love / In Dreams / The infinite shining heavens / Whither must I wander / Bright is the ring of words / I have trod the upward and the downward slope (Vaughan Williams). Guitar Concerto (Arnold). Flourish with Fireworks (Oliver Knussen). In a nutshell: Suite : Arrival Platform Humlet / Gay but Wistful - Tune in a popular London style / Pastoral / The Gum-Suckers March. Train Music. County Gardens : English Morris Dance Tune (Grainger). La Vallee des cloches - Miroirs : Lisbon - Sailor's Song / Horkstow Grange - The Miser and His Man a local tragedy / Rufford Park Poachers - Poaching Song / The Brisk Young Sailor who returned to wed his True Love / Lord Melbourne - War Song / The Lost Lady Found - Dance Song (Ravel arr. Grainger). Pagodes - Estampes (Debussy arr. Grainger). The Warriors: Music to an imaginary ballet (Grainger). Asyla op.17 for orchestra (Ades). Odyssey (Maw). Drowned Out for large orchestra. Kai for solo cello and ensemble. Three Screaming Popes after Francis Bacon for large orchestra. Momentum for orchestra. Ceres (Mark-Anthony Turnage).
CONDUCTOR: Simon Rattle

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: clamshell style packaging

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CATALOGUE NR: KTC1374  (barcode: 8711801102122)
RECORD LABEL: Etcetera
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.77
RELEASE DATE: 12-Jan-2009

COMPOSER: Ernst Pauer  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: The British Connection
TRACKS: Quintet in F major op.44 (Ernst Pauer). Quintet in A flat major op.14 (Gustav Holst). Sextet (Gordon Jacob).
ARTISTS: Hexagon Ensemble      

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