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Holst - Savitri, The Planets, The Perfect Fool Ballet Suite, etc.
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Label: Somm
Cat No: ARIADNE5030
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Expected Release Date: 16th August 2024
Contents
Works
Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, op.26: 3rd Group, H99Hammersmith, op.52
Savitri
Songs (4), op.35
The Evening Watch, op.43 no.1
The Perfect Fool: Ballet Music, op.39
The Planets, op.32
Artists
Arda Mandikian (soprano)Honor Sheppard (soprano)
Pauline Stevens (mezzo-soprano)
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
Michael Jefferies (harp)
Nona Liddell (violin)
Purcell Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
English Opera Group Chorus and Orchestra
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra & Women’s Chorus
Conductors
Adrian BoultImogen Holst
Charles Mackerras
Norman Del Mar
Malcolm Sargent
Works
Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, op.26: 3rd Group, H99Hammersmith, op.52
Savitri
Songs (4), op.35
The Evening Watch, op.43 no.1
The Perfect Fool: Ballet Music, op.39
The Planets, op.32
Artists
Arda Mandikian (soprano)Honor Sheppard (soprano)
Pauline Stevens (mezzo-soprano)
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
Michael Jefferies (harp)
Nona Liddell (violin)
Purcell Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
English Opera Group Chorus and Orchestra
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra & Women’s Chorus
Conductors
Adrian BoultImogen Holst
Charles Mackerras
Norman Del Mar
Malcolm Sargent
About
Chronologically, the earliest recordings are those on Disc 2, curated by Producer Lani Spahr. The live performances of The Perfect Fool suite and The Planets were recorded from New York’s Radio City Studio in 1945 and Boston’s Symphony Hall in 1946, respectively, with British conductors leading orchestras from “across the pond”, where Holst had devoted much time in his later years conducting, lecturing and teaching.
The recordings on Disc 1 are in various ways the result of Imogen Holst’s championing of her father’s music. A composer in her own right, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist and festival administrator, it was in the last capacity, especially, that she came to work at Benjamin Britten’s side on his annual Aldeburgh Festival, becoming co-artistic director in the season of 1956. This recording of Gustav Holst’s chamber opera Sāvitri dates from that summer and comes from the collection of Music Preserved.
Nearly a decade later Imogen Holst, who by then was acclaimed for her founding and leadership of the Purcell Singers, a choir whose performances became a regular fixture at Aldeburgh, curated a series of broadcasts on BBC’s Third Programme to feature works by her father and other composers. Some of the Gustav Holst pieces, like the Third Group of Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda and Hammersmith: Prelude and Scherzo for orchestra, were broadcast live from public performances at the Cheltenham Music Festival in July of 1965, Cheltenham incidentally being Gustav’s birthplace. Others, like the 4 Songs for soprano and violin and The Evening-Watch for mixed chorus, must have been pre-recorded in closed sessions that summer for use later in Imogen’s series of programmes. These two recordings were aired on 31 October 1965. All of the Cheltenham ’65 recordings come from the collection of Stephen Crane of ARS Recorded Editions.
Disc 1 has been fastidiously polished by Restoration Engineer Paul Baily. His restoration of the recent Sir Adrian Boult Conducts (ARIADNE50242) was honoured with the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Records Critics’ Award) in the Historical Recordings category.
Restoration Engineer for Disc 2, Lani Spahr’s previous SOMM releases include the lauded four-volume sets Vaughan Williams Live (ARIADNE5016, 5018–20) and Elgar Remastered (SOMMCD2614), as well as two Gramophone Editor’s Choice picks: Elgar from America Vol.3 (ARIADNE50152) for “superb audio restorations [bringing] performances fully to life” and Bruckner from the Archives Vol.1 (ARIADNE50252) for the “high standards achieved here, where expert audio restoration and remastering is by Lani Spahr”.
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