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The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1917. In the last movement the orchestra is joined by a wordless female chorus. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its supposed astrological character.
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Keith Emerson Band used "Jupiter, the Bringer of Joy" for their song "Marche Train". Manfred Mann's Earth Band used "Jupiter, bringer of joy" for his song "Joybringer". [22] The 1985 album Beyond the Planets, by Jeff Wayne, Rick Wakeman and Kevin Peek (with narration by Patrick Allen), is a rock arrangement of the entire suite. [23]
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.
Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat major, op. 9; Johann Pachelbel – Canon in D Major; Carl Orff – Carmina Burana: O fortuna; Johann Sebastian Bach – Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: Air; Gustav Holst – The Planets, op. 32: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity; Claude Debussy – Suite bergamasque, L 75: Clair de lune
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32: 1914–1916: The Planets. Mars, the Bringer of War ... also for mixed chorus a cappella, Op. 9a ... based on the theme from the middle section of the Jupiter ...
The Manse in Thaxted, where Gustav Holst lived from 1917 to 1925 "Thaxted" is a hymn tune by the English composer Gustav Holst, based on the stately theme from the middle section of the Jupiter movement of his orchestral suite The Planets and named after Thaxted, the English village where he lived much of his life.