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In Reply to: RE: Agreed! posted by Robert C. Lang on February 27, 2012 at 16:03:41
My favorite planets is Bolt's
Alan
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That stands to reason. Given that Boult was a close friend of Holst and asked by him to lead the premier I have no doubt that Boult had a special and personal affinity for the music.
Robert C. Lang
I find the music uninspiring?? maybe it is a good audiophile type of disc?
Lot's of contrasts and dynamics.
****maybe it is a good audiophile type of disc***
Holt's "The Planets" has been immensely popular with classical music lovers since it's debut more than 90 years ago long before the advent of the "audiophile". Heck it has shown far more endurance than even Pluto was able to muster as a "planet". That's staying power that's nothing short of celestial.
Robert C. Lang
I do not own one version any longer, I've just heard it too often, and I have absolutely no desire to hear it soon.
My real point was that there is so much more important music that
SACD does not serve well compared to "The planets" which they are already
many versions on SACD.
Edits: 02/28/12
You find yourself coming back to music you got tired of 25 or 30 years back, even longer. I have come to a new appreciation of Tchaikovsky, in particular, that way. (Late in my high school years I was a fan of Schoenberg. Webern, etc. and looked down my nose at "Romantic" music, esp. Tchaikovsky.) Same for the Beethoven symphonies. The Brahms symphonies, however, which I listened to way too much back when I was a teenager, remain pretty much a closed chapter. Can't stand 'em. I quit listening to "The Planets" about the year 1980, but with the EMI SACD on its way from Japan I am committed to giving it another chance. I had all the Boult versions on Lp that were available, and still recall buying one of them at the downtown Detroit J. L. Hudson department store. I was maybe 12 years old at the time. Funny the things you remember.
Ha!
Hey Jazz1 I didn't know that the unregistered "jazz1j" was, in fact, you and not Jazz1 Jr.-:), especially this time of day.
I know (and appreciate) very well about how you feel about "The Planets"
Robert C. Lang
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