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Holst: A Winter Idyll - Elegy - Indra - A Song of the Night - Sita Interlude - Invocation - The Lure - Morning of the Year Dances

11/1/2006, 8 Tracks, 1:15:56

Featuring

  • David Atherton
  • Lorraine McAslan
  • Alexander Baillie
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • London Symphony Orchestra
  • Gustav Holst

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Composer Biography

Gustav Holst, the composer, was a student at the Royal College of Music for five years, starting in 1893.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Holst's opera "Sita," based on Indian mythology, only came joint second in a competition organized by the publisher Ricordi.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

In "Invocation," Holst used a texture generated from varied superimposed blocks of orchestral patterning, a technique possibly derived from Ravel or early Stravinsky.

Source: Booklet

Interpretation

This recording of "Dances from The Morning of the Year" is a concert version edited by Imogen Holst and Colin Matthews, with added percussion to suggest stage performance sounds.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Holst's ballet music for "The Lure" was commissioned for Chicago, with a scenario by Alice Barney about a flame and moths.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Holst had an "Indian" period, with his interest sparked by Robert Watson Frazer's 1895 book of Indian mythology stories, "Silent Gods and Sun-steeped Lands."

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Holst's choral ballet "The Morning of the Year" was the first score ever commissioned by the BBC Music Department.

Source: Booklet

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