Mars (Planets Suite) Holst BBCSO Sir Adrian Boult + Avro Vulcan

This performance of Mars was recorded in 1945 and is released on BEULAH 2PD12 "Boult's Planets"

"The performance has an indefinable rightness about it, a supreme authority that makes it difficult to imagine the score being interpreted any other way. Has Mars ever resounded with more terrifying ferocity since? I very much doubt it. In Venus the playing of the BBC SO has a translucent beauty, while the impish Mercury really sparkles. Jupiter has marvelous exuberance and sparkle, its big tune lent enormous dignity and humanity. Saturn, too, is paced to perfection, and Uranus goes about his mischievous antics with terrific swagger. In Neptune one notes again the exquisite poise of the orchestral response ." Gramophone Dec. 1996.

2PD12 also contains the benchmark performance of Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
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This track can also be downloaded at iTunes
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Images photographed at RAF Waddington on July 3rd 2008 includes Avro Vulcan XH588

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[madpilotmad]

wow

[HunterstonB]

The video would of worked much better with WW2 gun camera film.

[icgriffin]

It just goes to show how different people are! Colin Davis with the BPO makes that great orchestra sound like an amature school band. Has Khagarbalugrak heard the much later recording of Boult with the LPO or the best of all Sir Charles Groves with the RPO I think once youve heard these recordings you will never listen to davis again

[KhagarBalugrak]

Boult brings many interesting ideas to this piece. Ultimately, though, this rendition simply isn't very moving at all. It's overly formal and doesn't let emotions shine through, and doesn't really go deeply into the piece itself.

Try Colin Davis and the Berlin Philharmonic if you want to hear something really spectacular.

[TheLeonardoSaez]

Fantastic !!!