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Catalogue Number: CLASSCD 284 | |
| Price: £13.50 | ||
British Symphonic Collection Volume 5 GUSTAV HOLST COTSWOLDS SYMPHONY ~ FIRST COMPLETE RECORDING Munich Symphony Orchestra Douglas Bostock, conductor |
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REVIEWS ***rating in the Penguin Guide “Bostock attacks and propels this strongly rhythmic music with gusto, while his ‘Elegy’ has great passion and conviction....An excellent production” Ian Lace BBC Music Mag August 1999 ***** Performance / Sound “...valuable disc, conducted by Douglas Bostock...” Michael Kennedy, Sunday Telegraph July 1999 |
For many years Gustav Holst was known for a very small corpus of music - The Planets, of course, possibly the most popular work ever written by an English composer. Add that to the St. Paul's Suite for strings, and the choral setting The Hymn of Jesus, and possibly the Perfect Fool Ballet Music, and we have all of Holst's music that would be known to most music lovers. Holst's Cotswold Symphony was written in 1899 and 1900, when he was an orchestral trombone player both in the Scottish Orchestra and the Carl Rosa Opera Company. It was completed on 24th July 1900 in the seaside resort of Skegness where he was on tour. When it received its only performance at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth conducted by the indefatigable Dan Godfrey, it was the first time he had heard one of his own orchestral works. |
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