The background to this disc is a melancholy one, for it was during Chandos sessions to record Holst's Choral Symphony in Swansea in 2008 that the conductor Richard Hickox was taken ill; he died ...

Guest conductor Andrew Grams is excited about conducting Holst's “The Hymn of Jesus” at this weekend's San Antonio Symphony concerts, but he's also a tiny bit disappointed in one aspect of the staging ...

There's no particular Gustav Holst anniversary being celebrated at the moment, so perhaps it is just the current emphasis on all things British that has encouraged EMI to bring together such a ...

Holst’s neglected 1913 choral epic gets a new lease of life Written just before The Planets, Holst’s choral epic, The Cloud Messenger, Op 30, has been neglected since its dud premiere in 1913 (the ...

Ave Maria Gustav Holst, Composer Purcell Singers Imogen Holst, Conductor (12) Welsh Folk Songs, Movements: The Dove Gustav Holst, Composer Purcell Singers Imogen Holst, Conductor (12) Welsh Folk Songs ...

This is surely Holst’s greatest work. Andrew Davis is fast becoming the most incisive and authoritative interpreter of British music and this wonderful recording is testimony. The BBC SO and Chorus ...