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Gustav Holst - The Collector's Edition (2012) (6 CDs Box Set)  Music

Posted by murena at Oct. 29, 2018
Gustav Holst - The Collector's Edition (2012) (6 CDs Box Set)

Gustav Holst - The Collector's Edition (2012) (6 CDs Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image+.cue, log) | 6 CDs, 07:25:05 min | 1,7 Gb | Covers ->23 mb
Genre: Classical / Label: EMI Classics

EMI Classics presents a magnificent collection that celebrates the life and career of English composer Gustav Holst. Containing an outside selection of Holst s greatest works including his most famous orchestral suite The Planets, the rare The Perfect Fool, as well as the Walt Whitman inspired Ode to Death. This 6-CD collector s edition provides a chance for all classical music aficionados to listen and experience his timeless compositions
Steven Isserlis, Paavo Jarvi, Philharmonia Orchestra - Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos (2016)

Steven Isserlis, Paavo Järvi, Philharmonia Orchestra - Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 279 Mb | Total time: 73:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68077 | Recorded: 2014, 2015

For this 2016 Hyperion release, cellist Steven Isserlis and the Philharmonia Orchestra under Paavo Järvi present a moving album of cello concertos by Edward Elgar and William Walton, along with Gustav Holst's Invocation and Imogen Holst's The Fall of the Leaf, a five-movement suite for solo cello. The program creates a profoundly pensive and even autumnal feeling, and Isserlis' tone is by turns reflective, lyrical, and poignantly elegiac, appropriate to the selections. The melancholy nostalgia of Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor colors the album's mood from the outset, and notwithstanding passages of intense virtuosity, the rich but subdued sonorities of his burnished orchestration contribute to its brooding quality.

David Lloyd-Jones - Holst Gustav The Planets (2004) [SACD-R][OF]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by Discograf_man at Jan. 9, 2017
David Lloyd-Jones - Holst Gustav The Planets (2004) [SACD-R][OF]

David Lloyd-Jones - Holst Gustav The Planets (2004) [SACD-R][OF]
Classical | SACD ISO: DSD 2.0/DST 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Artwork | 4.28 GB
Label: Naxos | Release Year: 2004

This version of Holst’s endearing masterpiece, “The Planets”, sounds very good in Naxos’ super audio 5.1 technology. I do not have the point one (subwoofer) hooked up in my house and assume, by listening to the recording in 5.0, that the timpani — which are already very powerful and forward placed — would be explosive if you listened in 5.1. The sound is very good otherwise, with wide ranging and natural orchestral body and timbre. It is not the best super audio sound I’ve heard but it is good and a big improvement over the stereo sound on the last version of “The Planets” I purchased, the one Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle released last year.

VA - Holst (2022)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 23, 2022
VA - Holst (2022)

VA - Holst (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.02 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 579 MB
4:12:47 | Classical | Label: UMG

Gustav Holst was among those few classical composers to exert a major influence on rock music and popular music in the mid- to late- 20th century – which is all rather ironic, since he passed away in 1934. Holst was part of the early- 20th century school of English composers usually referred to as post-Romantics – along with his friend Ralph Vaughan Williams, with whom he shared a common interest in English folksong, he helped advance the cause of distinctly English orchestral music far beyond the boundaries of England; but much of Holst's music, as distinct from that of his contemporaries, was also steeped in Eastern influences that made it unique. Born in Cheltenham in 1874, Holst survived a childhood blighted by poor health (including painful neuritis in his right hand), the death of his mother when he was eight years old, and an overly demanding father.

VA - British String Concertos (2014) 4CD Box Set  Music

Posted by Designol at Aug. 17, 2023
VA - British String Concertos (2014) 4CD Box Set

VA - British String Concertos (2014) 4CD Box Set
works by Coleridge-Taylor, Holst, Finzi, Hoddinott, Maconchy,
Busch, Fricker, Moeran, Gerhard, Banks, Rubbra, Morgan

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1.28 Gb | Scans ~ 47 Mb | 05:03:05
Genre: Classical | Label: Lyrita | # SRCD.2346

The release of this four-CD set of works for solo string instruments and orchestra pays tribute, as does the recently issued box-set of ‘British Piano Concertos’, to the imagination and vision of the late Richard Itter and his pioneering Lyrita label. For many, Lyrita was the British music label and was loyally supported by various ‘in house’ conductors, among them Adrian Boult, Nicholas Braithwaite, Norman Del Mar and Vernon Handley. Many of the recordings offered here are from the old Lyrita analogue and early digital catalogue but there are a few recordings made during the label’s short revival between 1993 and 1996 which were not issued until more than a decade after they were made. The set makes for fantastic value for money, each CD containing well over 70 minutes of music, and the performances are generally of tremendous vibrancy and quality.
Holst - The Collector's Edition (2012) (6CD Box Set) {EMI Classics} (REPOST)

Holst - The Collector's Edition (2012) (6CD Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Artwork | 1868 mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 1085 mb
Classical | Label: EMI Classics / 50999 4 40471 2 2

The reasons for Holst’s relative neglect, beyond The Planets and the Band Suites, aren’t hard to fathom. He wrote no large works in conventional forms, and never repeated himself. Even the Choral Symphony on poetry by Keats, here in its finest recorded performance to date (by Boult), owes very little to precedent–Mahler’s Eighth and Elgar’s The Black Knight, perhaps–and in any case features Holst’s personal combination of “spacey” orchestral color and rhythmic complexity (sample below). The music is both personal, technically virtuosic, and however beautiful somewhat cool emotionally. There is nothing else quite like it in the early 20th century.
Yue Yu, Anthony Hewitt & Jeffrey Armstrong - Bowen, Britten & I. Holst: Chamber Music (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Yue Yu, Anthony Hewitt & Jeffrey Armstrong - Bowen, Britten & I. Holst: Chamber Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 75:33 minutes | 1,35 GB
Classical | Label: Naxos Records, Official Digital Download

An accomplished horn and viola player, York Bowen is said to have preferred the tone of the viola to the violin. Inspired by the virtuosity and vibrato style of the distinguished violist, Lionel Tertis, Bowen wrote several works for him and became his accompanist. Bowen’s subtle shifts of key and heartfelt melodies are well in evidence here, including the powerful and poised Rhapsody, op.149, considered to be one of his most important works. Gustav Holst’s daughter Imogen is represented here by the open-air freshness of her Four Easy Pieces and the terse, laconic narrative of her Duo for Viola and Piano. Britten’s spiky Waltz is full of 1930s wit.
Yue Yu, Anthony Hewitt, Jeffrey Armstrong - Bowen, Britten & I. Holst: Chamber Music (2022)

Yue Yu, Anthony Hewitt, Jeffrey Armstrong - Bowen, Britten & I. Holst: Chamber Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:15:24 | 313 / 173 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

An accomplished horn and viola player, York Bowen is said to have preferred the tone of the viola to the violin. Inspired by the virtuosity and vibrato style of the distinguished violist, Lionel Tertis, Bowen wrote several works for him and became his accompanist. Bowen’s subtle shifts of key and heartfelt melodies are well in evidence here, including the powerful and poised Rhapsody, op.149, considered to be one of his most important works. Gustav Holst’s daughter Imogen is represented here by the open-air freshness of her Four Easy Pieces and the terse, laconic narrative of her Duo for Viola and Piano. Britten’s spiky Waltz is full of 1930s wit.A rising star in the music world of her native China and beyond, violist Yue Yu was awarded the Sonata Prize at the Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition in 2017, She later became the winner of 2019 Stockport International Young Musicians Competition (for all instruments), and at the 2021 Salzburg Paul Hindemith Viola Concorso. This album is her Naxos debut.

Pluto: Diary of an ex-planet  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Free butterfly at Aug. 6, 2021
Pluto: Diary of an ex-planet

Pluto: Diary of an ex-planet: From Clyde Tombaugh to New Horizons; ninth planet to dwarf planet; the icy world at the edge of the Solar System's Kuiper Belt by Christopher Seddon
English | September 6, 2014 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00NEGHE6A | 51 pages | EPUB | 0.26 Mb
Rosalind Ventris - Sola: Music for Viola by Women Composers (2023)

Rosalind Ventris - Sola: Music for Viola by Women Composers (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 64:30 | 298 / 146 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Delphian Records

Rosalind Ventris’s debut solo album features a selection of music for unacccompanied viola composed between 1930 (Imogen Holst’s impressive Suite for Viola) and the present day (a 2020 lockdown miniature by Thea Musgrave). The largely British and Irish programme allows Ventris to revive substantial works by important yet still often overlooked twentieth-century composers – not only Holst but also Lillian Fuchs, Elizabeth Maconchy, Elisabeth Lutyens and Gra_yna Bacewicz – alongside more recent additions to the repertoire from Musgrave, Sally Beamish and Amanda Feery. With several of the composers themselves professional string players, this is, in Ventris’s words, ‘wonderful music – that just happens to be by women composers’.