Gustav Holst
‘A nonconformist with a conservative’s regard for tradition’: Ralph Vaughan Williams at 150
He has long been the nation’s favourite composer, but there’s more to him than The Lark. As he turns 150, it’s time to listen afresh to this radical traditionalist
Hugh Morris
09, Sep, 2022 @10:00 AM
Britten Sinfonia/Elder review – Holst’s Indian gem takes centre stage
Savitri was given a rare outing in a concert that framed Holst’s Indian opera with works by Grace Williams and Britten, and closed with a boundary-crossing fusion that Holst would have relished
Andrew Clements
05, May, 2022 @2:29 PM
Tory levelling up and razing costs | Brief letters
Brief letters: Levelling up | Marble Arch mound | Flatulence | Spelling mistakes | Afghanistan
Letters
16, Aug, 2021 @5:19 PM
The Planets 2018/Ligeti Quartet review – Holst orbits into the modern age
Holst’s Planets suite is reimagined with the benefit of today’s scientific knowledge in a dizzying and smartly staged show
John Lewis
01, Oct, 2018 @10:10 AM
Various: Echoes of Land & Sea CD review – a fine selection
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Stephen Pritchard
24, Sep, 2017 @6:59 AM
Original Gustav Holst scores discovered in New Zealand library
Experts believe one of the works, Folk Songs from Somerset, has not been played or heard in more than a century
Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin
19, Jul, 2017 @2:55 AM
CBSO/Collon review – frisson of theatricality for Holst's quiet masterpiece
Yvonne Howard and James Rutherford brought steely power to the mystical chamber opera Sāvitri, though a fierce Planets suite lacked depth
Andrew Clements
09, Feb, 2017 @2:35 PM
Jonas Kaufmann and Sāvitri: this week’s best UK classical concerts
The world’s leading tenor comes to London, while Holst’s finest opera gets a rare run out. Plus: Martyn Brabbins and Jonathan Cohen
Andrew Clements
03, Feb, 2017 @11:30 AM
At the Boar's Head; Riders to the Sea review – sympathetic take on Holst and Vaughan Williams
Erica Jeal
22, Dec, 2016 @3:45 PM
How orchestras are riding the wave of change
From cannabis concerts to blindfolded audiences, orchestras are engaging audiences in exciting new ways
Bob Riley
28, Aug, 2014 @11:10 AM
Holst: First Choral Symphony; The Mystic Trumpeter – review
It's not the symphony that makes the big impression here, but Holst's assured setting of a Whitman poem, writes Andrew Clements
Andrew Clements
17, Oct, 2013 @10:00 PM
Rewind radio: TS Eliot's India; Twenty Minutes – The Planets; In Search of Nic Jones; Book of the Week – The Sea Inside – review
The roots of TS Eliot's quintessentially English masterpiece, The Waste Land, lie far from home, in India, writes Sean O'Hagan
Sean O'Hagan
10, Aug, 2013 @5:01 PM
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