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This is a discography of commercial recordings of The Planets, Op. 32, an orchestral suite by Gustav Holst, composed 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 1922–1923 and 1926.
He made a famous recording of Holst's The Planets with the Boston Symphony for Deutsche Grammophon, after learning the piece at the age of 70. Unusual for a conductor born in Europe, Steinberg was a sympathetic conductor of George Gershwin's music (he made Gershwin recordings for three different labels).
There have been at least 80 commercial recordings of The Planets. [64] Holst conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in the first two recorded performances: the first was an acoustic recording made in sessions between September 1922 and November 1923; [ 65 ] the second was made in 1926 using the new electrical recording process. [ 66 ]
He worked with Herbie Hancock in the early 1970s on two albums (Crossings and Sextant) and subsequent tours, pioneering synthesizers as a live instrument. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Hancock initially hired Gleeson as a synthesizer technician and instructor, but ended up asking him to become a full-time band member, expanding the ensemble from six to seven ...
Isao Tomita (冨田 勲, Tomita Isao, 22 April 1932 – 5 May 2016), [1] often known simply as Tomita, was a Japanese composer, regarded [2] as one of the pioneers of electronic music [3] [4] [5] and space music, [6] and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements. [7]
Sent to space aboard NASA’s twin Voyager probes, the records were designed as the first recorded interstellar message from humankind to potential intelligent life in the cosmos.
HOLST the planets York2 "World Premiere Recording 4 hands one piano" publisher Black Box. and GUSTAV HOLST THE PLANETS "A World Premiere The Composer's own TWO PIANO VERSION" publisher FACET. Frankk74 09:49, 23 February 2009 (UTC) Note there is also an Organ version which was transcribed from the Orchestral version by Peter Sykes publisher Raven.
[10] [11] In 1975 a second LP was released, and in 1987 Payne collaborated with musician Paul Winter in combining whalesong with human music. [12] [13] Whale recordings by Frank Watlington (with commentary by Payne) were released on a flexi disc soundsheet inside the January 1979 National Geographic magazine. This issue, at 10.5 million copies ...