Gustav Holsts The Planets by the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis with video from the History Channels series The Universe

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The Planets Op. 32 is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the British composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. The Planets is the most-performed composition by an English composer. Its first complete public performance occurred during World War I on 10 October 1918 in Birmingham, with Appleby Matthews conducting.

The elaborate score of The Planets produces unusual, complex sounds by using some out-of-the-ordinary instruments in the large orchestra, such as a bass oboe, two timpani players, celesta, xylophone, tubular bells, and organ. Holst had been influenced by Igor Stravinsky, who used four oboes and four bassoons in his The Rite of Spring (which Carl Sagan used in the soundtrack to Cosmos), and by Schoenberg's 1909 composition Five Pieces for Orchestra.

The video:
Fragments from Season 1 of the History Channels series, The Universe. Currently in its fourth season, The Universe is an excellent series; the minisite can be found here: http://www.history.com/minisite.do?mini_id=54036

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