This is a discography of The Planets, Op. 32, an orchestral suite by Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916, and first performed by the Queen's Hall Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult on 29 September 1918. It includes the composer's own recordings made in 1922-23 and 1926.
Orchestral version
| Year | Conductor | (Chorus and) Orchestra | Label | Recording notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | Gustav Holst | London Symphony Orchestra | Columbia | recorded 27 October 1922 (Jupiter only) at Petty France Studios; acoustic recording[1] |
| 1923 | Holst | London Symphony Orchestra | Columbia | recorded 23 August (Mercury, Venus), 24 August (Uranus), 30 October (Mars, Saturn), 6 November (Neptune) at Petty France Studios; acoustic recording[1] |
| 1925 | Holst | London Symphony Orchestra | Columbia | recorded 19 February (Saturn), 15 September (Jupiter) at Petty France Studios; acoustic recording[1] |
| 1926 | Holst | Women of the London Symphony Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra | Columbia | recorded complete on 22 June, 2 July, 14 Sept. and 22 Oct. at Petty France Studios; electrical recording; released in Dec. 1926;[1] re-issued on LP in 1972, on CD from 1991 onwards[2] |
| 1926 | Albert Coates | Symphony Orchestra | HMV | only Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus; reissued on CD in 1992 on Koch Historic |
| 1942 | Ernest MacMillan | Toronto Symphony Orchestra | RCA Victor | only Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter; released on CD in 2006 by Analekta, on Portrait: Sir Ernest MacMillan |
| 1943 | Leopold Stokowski | NBC Symphony Orchestra | Cala Records | from an NBC radio broadcast in Studio 8H, New York City, the earliest American performance on disc |
| 1945 | Sir Adrian Boult | BBC Symphony Orchestra | HMV | the first of Boult's five recordings of the work |
| 1954 | Boult | Members of the London Philharmonic Choir; Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra | Nixa | orchestra was the London Philharmonic under a pseudonym for contractual reasons |
| 1954 | Sir Malcolm Sargent | Chorus of Female Voices; London Symphony Orchestra | Decca | Kingsway Hall; engineer Kenneth Wilkinson |
| 1956 | Stokowski | Women's Voices of the Roger Wagner Chorale; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Capitol | the work's first stereo recording; issued on LP; reissued on CD by EMI |
| 1958 | Sargent | BBC Women's Chorus; BBC Symphony Orchestra | HMV | reissued on CD on Classics for Pleasure |
| 1959 | Boult | Vienna Academy Chorus; Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Whitehall 20033 | |
| 1961 | Herbert von Karajan | Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Decca | remastered and reissued in 2007 in 24-bit, 96-kbps sound |
| 1965 | Sargent | BBC Symphony Orchestra | IMP | Royal Festival Hall, London, February 3, 1965; issued on IMP CD in 1995 |
| 1966 | Boult | The Ambrosian Singers; New Philharmonia Orchestra | HMV | |
| 1970 | Bernard Haitink | John Alldis Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra | Philips | |
| 1970 | Bernard Herrmann | London Philharmonic Chorus; London Philharmonic Orchestra | Decca Phase 4 Stereo | |
| 1970 | William Steinberg | New England Conservatory Chorus; Boston Symphony Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon | recorded in Symphony Hall, Boston, in September and October 1970 |
| 1971 | Leonard Bernstein | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Columbia | recorded in Philharmonic Hall in early December 1971; released on LP in 1973; reissued on CD in 1985 and 1997; music was subject of Bernstein's final Young People's Concerts broadcast in March 1972 |
| 1971 | Zubin Mehta | Female Voices of the Los Angeles Master Chorale; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Decca | An extra tubist, Tommy Johnson (tubist), was hired during the recording sessions. |
| 1973 | André Previn | London Symphony Orchestra | EMI | recorded Sept. 28-29, 1973, in Kingsway Hall, London; engineer Christopher Parker |
| 1974 | George Hurst | Bournemouth Municipal Choir; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | Contour | recorded at Southampton Guildhall; producer Brian Culverhouse, engineer Brian Couzens |
| 1974 | Walter Susskind | Ronald Arnatt Chorale and Missouri Singers; Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | Turnabout and VOX | recorded in Powell Hall in Sept. 1974; issued in 1975; reissued in 2004 by MFSL as a hybrid multichannel SACD |
| 1975 | James Loughran | Hallé Orchestra | CfP/EMI | won a Gold Disc; in Dec. 2009 came 8th in BBC's Top 30 Most Played classical recordings over three-quarters of a century |
| 1975 | Eugene Ormandy | Philadelphia Orchestra | RCA Red Seal | reissued in 1993 |
| 1978 | Boult | Geoffrey Mitchell Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra | EMI | recorded 60 years after the same conductor led the work's premiere; on May 12 and 30, June 4 and July 31, 1978, in Kingsway Hall and at Abbey Road; released for Boult's 90th birthday |
| 1978 | Neville Marriner | Ambrosian Singers; Concertgebouw Orchestra | Philips | |
| 1978 | Sir Georg Solti | Ladies of the London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra | Decca | Kingsway Hall, Feb. 1978 |
| 1979 | Sir Alexander Gibson | Scottish National Orchestra | Chandos | recorded in Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, 2–3 July 1979 |
| 1979 | Seiji Ozawa | New England Conservatory Chorus; Boston Symphony Orchestra | Philips | recorded in Dec. 1979; reissued in 1992, 2005 and 2010 |
| 1980 | Lorin Maazel | Maîtrise de Radio France; Orchestre National de France | CBS Masterworks | Children's choir used in "Neptune". Digital recording; released in 1981 |
| 1980 | Simon Rattle | Ambrosian Singers; Philharmonia Orchestra | EMI | digital recording; Kingsway Hall, London, 29-30 Dec. 1980 |
| 1981 | Karajan | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon | recorded in the Philharmonie, Berlin, in Jan. 1981; digital recording |
| 1986 | Andrew Davis | Toronto Symphony Orchestra | HMV | recorded in The Centre in The Square, Kitchener, Ontario, on 20 Jan. 1986. Children's choir used in "Neptune". |
| 1986 | Previn | Women of the Brighton Festival Chorus; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Telarc Digital | Watford Town Hall, London, 14–15 April 1986 |
| 1986 | John Williams | Women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus; Boston Pops Orchestra | Philips | Boston Symphony Hall |
| 1986 | Charles Dutoit | Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Decca / Penguin Classics | recorded by Decca; reissued in 1998 by Penguin Classics; used for a multi-disciplinary (skating, ballet/dance, music) version;[3] awarded the 1987 Gramophone Award for Engineering |
| 1987 | Eduardo Mata | Dallas Symphony Orchestra | Proarte | |
| 1987 | Sir Charles Groves | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Sanctuary Classics | recorded in July 1987 in Watford Town Hall |
| 1987 | Richard Hickox | London Symphony Orchestra | IMP Classics | recorded in Abbey Road Studio 1 on 8–9 July 1987 |
| 1987 | Geoffrey Simon | London Symphony Orchestra | Delta Entertainment | recorded at All Saints, Tooting; reissued in 1998 |
| 1988 | William Boughton | Philharmonia Orchestra | Nimbus | recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London, 11-12 Jan. 1988 |
| 1988 | Adrian Leaper | Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra | Naxos | recorded 26-30 Nov. 1988 in Bratislava; released in 1989, including Holst's Suite de Ballet, Op. 10 |
| 1988 | Sir Charles Mackerras | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Virgin Classics | recorded in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, in June 1988; released on CD 1989 |
| 1989 | James Levine | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon | released in 1991 |
| 1989 | Hilary Davan Wetton | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Collins Classics | |
| 1989 | Sir Colin Davis | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Philips | |
| 1990 | Mehta | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Teldec | |
| 1991 | James Judd | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Denon | recorded in Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London, on 1-2 Dec. 1991; released on CD 1992. Boys' choir used in "Neptune". |
| 1992 | Ross Pople | London Festival Orchestra | ASV | |
| 1992 | Yevgeny Svetlanov | Philharmonia Orchestra | Collins Classics | reissued 1995 by Edgestone Classics (EC029); Svetlanov website indicates another recording by him with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra |
| 1993 | Mike Batt | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Ladies from the John McCarthy Chorus | Guild | recorded at Watford Town Hall, 25 August 1993; released in 2018 |
| 1993 | Vernon Handley | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Tring | recorded Oct. 1993; released 1994 |
| 1993 | A. Davis | BBC Symphony Chorus; BBC Symphony Orchestra | Teldec | recorded at St Augustine's Church, London, in Dec. 1993 |
| 1994 | José Serebrier | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | ASV | |
| 1994 | John Eliot Gardiner | Philharmonia Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon | released in 1995 |
| 1995 | Adrian Leaper | Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria | Arte Nova Classics | live recording 25 January 1995 in the Teatro Pérez Galdós, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
| 1996 | Leonard Slatkin | Philharmonia Orchestra | BMG Classics | released in 1997 on CD |
| 1996 | Yan Pascal Tortelier | BBC Philharmonic | BBC Music Magazine | recorded July 13, 1996, in Bridgewater Hall, Manchester |
| 1997 | Roy Goodman | New Queens Hall Orchestra | Carlton Classics | Historically informed performance |
| 1997 | Yoel Levi | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Telarc Digital | recorded at Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, April 3–4, 1997 |
| 1998 | Andrew Litton | Dallas Symphony Orchestra | Delos | |
| 1998 | Djong Victorin Yu | Philharmonia Orchestra | Exton / Octavia Records Inc. | |
| 2001 | David Lloyd-Jones | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Naxos | recorded February 17–18, 2001, in Glasgow; released in 2002 on CD; issued also on DVD in 5.1 surround sound (Dolby+DTS); includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews as well as Holst's The Mystic Trumpeter |
| 2001 | Mark Elder | Hallé Orchestra | Hyperion | recorded in Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on 27–28 March 2001; includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews (commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society and first performed by the Hallé under Kent Nagano in 2000); also includes the original and modified-ending versions of Neptune |
| 2002 | Dennis Russell Davies | Bruckner Orchester Linz | Chesky Records | recorded October 2–4, 2001, in the Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria; released on SACD in 2002 and later as a digital download on Chesky's HDtracks site |
| 2002 | Sir Roger Norrington | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Hänssler | live recording made in the Liederhalle, Stuttgart, 27–29 June 2001 |
| 2002 | Paul Freeman | Czech National Symphony Orchestra | CNSO | recorded in the Rudolfinum, Prague, 2002; includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews[4] |
| 2003 | Handley | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | RPO | released in 2004 |
| 2003 | C. Davis | London Symphony Orchestra | LSO Live | live recording for the orchestra's own label in 2003 |
| 2004 | Owain Arwel Hughes | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Warner Classics | recorded 26–27 April 2004 at Watford Colosseum; released on CD 2005; includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews |
| 2005 | Yutaka Sado | NHK Symphony Orchestra | Avex | |
| 2005 | Rico Saccani | Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra | BPO Live | |
| 2006 | Rattle | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | EMI | includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews |
| 2009 | Paavo Järvi | Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | Telarc | |
| 2009 | Vladimir Jurowski | London Philharmonic Orchestra | LPO | recorded live in the Royal Festival Hall on 22 May 2009; released on CD in 2010 |
| 2011 | A. Davis | BBC Philharmonic | Chandos | |
| 2012 | Previn | London Symphony Orchestra | Cobra Entertainment LLC | |
| 2014 | David Robertson | Sydney Philharmonia Chorus; Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Sydney Symphony Orchestra | |
| 2015 | Michael Francis | NYO Canada | NYO Canada | recorded 1-3 Aug. 2015 in the McGill Multimedia Room, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal[5] |
| 2016 | Edward Gardner | National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain | Chandos | recorded 8-9 Aug. 2016 in Symphony Hall, Birmingham; released on CD in Feb. 2017[6] |
| Skidmore College Orchestra | Musopen | Jupiter (8:28):
Mars (8:18): | ||
Concert Band version
| Year | Conductor | Orchestra | Label | Recording notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Eric Banks | London Symphonic Wind Orchestra | EMI Music Japan | Recorded at Abbey Road Studios on 11–12 April 1989. Wind orchestra version of the complete seven-movement suite transcribed by Cy Payne. |
| 1994 | Frederick Fennell | Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra | King Records, Japan | Recorded at Iruma Shimin Kaikan Hall (Saitama, Japan) on 3-4 Nov. 1994. Released in 1995. Concert band version by Takuzo Inagaki. |
| 1994 | Daniel Sieber | « Belalp » Jubilee Wind Orchestra | Tonstudio AMOS | Recorded at Zentrum Missione, Naters on 26-27 Nov. 1994. Concert band version by Pierre-Alain Bidaud, Jean-Pierre Hartmann and Daniel Sieber. |
| 1996 | James Watson | Black Dyke Mills Band | Doyen | Brass band version by Stephen Roberts. |
| 1998 | Eddie Green | University of Houston Wind Ensemble | Mark Custom | Concert band version by Merlin Patterson. |
| 1998 | United States Air Force Heritage of America Band | Mars (7:58): Venus (8:21): Mercury (4:23): Jupiter (8:00): Uranus (5:19): | ||
| 2003 | Commander Yoshiiku Aoki | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Band, Tokyo | Universal Music Japan | Live recording at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall on 3 February 2003. Concert band version by Tatsuya Konishi. |
| 2005 | Ton van de Kieft | Noordenwind | Molenaar Edition | Live recording at Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam on 1 July 2005. Concert band version by Geert Schrijvers. |
Two-piano transcription
| Year | Artists | Label | Recording notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Richard Markham, David Nettle | Psyche | Two-piano transcription. |
| 1998 | Len Vorster, Robert Chamberlain | Naxos | Two-piano transcription. |
| 2000 | Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow | Olympia | Two-piano transcription. |
| 2001 | John York, Fiona York | Black Box | One piano, four hands transcription. Reissued 2011 on Nimbus Records. |
| 2004 | Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Susan Bradshaw | Delos | Two-piano transcription. |
Other versions
| Year | Conductor | Orchestra | Label | Recording notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Isao Tomita | RCA | Released in 1976/1991. Free arrangement and abridgement for electronic synthesiser. | |
| 1985 | Kevin Peek with Rick Wakeman and Jeff Wayne | Progressive rock version called Beyond the Planets. | ||
| 1996 | Peter Sykes | Raven | Version for organ. | |
| 2009 | Hugh Banton | Fie | Organ transcription. | |
| 2010 | Buzz Ensemble | Fidelio | Version for brass and organ. | |
| 2010 | Stefan Moser | H and M | Version for organ. | |
| 2020 | Jeremy Levy | Jeremy Levy Jazz Orchestra | OA2 Records | Big Band version called The Planets: Reimagined. |
References
- 1 2 3 4 Stuart, Philip. The LSO Discography. 2009. Available at CHARM website, accessed 28 March 2013.
- ↑ All the music from The Planets conducted by the composer, including alternate takes and original couplings, was issued together for the first time in 2014: Sanders, A. Review of Explore Multimedia ExM008. Classical Recordings Quarterly. Autumn 2014, No 78, p59-60.
- ↑ The Planets (Multi-disciplinary) version only reference was found here: at Amazon
- ↑ Available at CNSO website, accessed 4 July 2018.
- ↑ Available at NYO Canada website, accessed 8 August 2018.
- ↑ Available at Chandos website, accessed 9 June 2017.
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