Gustav Holst
The Planets
InformationYear of arrangement: 2015
Composer: Gustav Holst (1874–1934) Instrumentation: 1[/pic] 1 1 1 – 2 1 1 0 – 1perc, pno, str (min. 1 1 1 1 1) Duration: 50mins Commission: Sheffield International DocFest/Latitude Music Festival Premiere: Rep Orchestra/George Morton, Latitude Music Festival, July 2015 Sample RecordingFurther recordings available on request
Sample Score/Part
Hire/License InformationVideosJohn Storgärds/Lapland Chamber Orchestra
Rehearsal, January 2020 Korundi Concert Hall, Rovaniemi Christopher Warren Green/London Chamber Orchestra
Recording Session, September 2020 Purcell School Chamber Orchestra/Paul Hoskins
Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival 2021 |
"George Morton’s brilliiant arrangement calls for just 4 woodwind, 4 brass, percussion, piano and 5 strings. Obviously the scale is more intimate, but it’s astonishing how much of the music’s colour, atmosphere and intensity remains."
Stephen Johnson, Writer and Broadcaster
Work IntroductionThis chamber edition of Holst’s The Planets was commissioned to be performed at Latitude Music Festival 2015 as part of the University of Sheffield’s Sounds of the Cosmos project. Since its publication with Universal Edition in 2016 this arrangement has received numerous performances across the world to great acclaim.
Written for individual woodwinds, a small brass section, one percussionist, pianist and a small string section, this new reduction of Holst's masterpiece enables ensembles to bring the work to concert halls of many sizes. • Strings: this arrangement can be performed with a quintet up to a full chamber orchestra section. • Percussion: sd, bd, crotales/bells, tamb, tri, susp cym, cym • Voices; this arrangement comes with parts for a reduced SSAA chorus (min. 6 voices), but can be performed with Holst's original choral score. An alternate ending without choir is available on request, although this will only be available in certain venues. | ||||||
