LoginHolst: The Planets / Dutoit, Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Penguin Music Classics Series)
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In the CD's liner notes, novelist Ethan Canin's analysis of Holst's The Planets describes the composition to be the source material for most of the great cinema's scores. It's a fact he learned from his father--a violinist who left the San Francisco Symphony to pursue Hollywood studio work and kept referring back to The Planets as a source of inspiration. Holst's work--a composition for each planet in the solar system minus Earth and Pluto--was considered revolutionary in 1916 and it still sounds convincing today. Mars, the Bringer of War is a violent work that deserves a place in any sci-fi shoot out, while Mercury, the Winged
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Manufacturer: Decca
Release date: 29 September 1998
EAN: 0028946060629 UPC: 028946060629
Release date: 29 September 1998
EAN: 0028946060629 UPC: 028946060629
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