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A Holst Evening

BBC Radio 3
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An interplanetary journey around the life and music of Gustav Hoist, guided by Piers Burton-Page.
Contributors include composer Colin Matthews , conductors Hilary Davan Wetton and Vernon Handley, Holst biographer Michael Short and Holst scholars Richard Greene, Raymond Head and Lowinger Maddison, friends, colleagues and pupils of the composer, and his daughter Imogen. Marking out the route from his birthplace in Cheltenham via India, Algeria, Hammersmith and Thaxted to Betelgeuse are Holst's own recordings of all seven Planets and a galaxy of his other music, from a masque for St Paul 's Girls' School to his visionary masterpiece Egdon Heath.
See also tomorrow 11.30pm Producer David Gallagher

Contributors

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Piers Burton-Page
Conductors:
Colin Matthews
Conductors:
Hilary Davan
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Michael Short
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Richard Greene
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Raymond Head
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Lowinger Maddison
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St Paul
Producer:
David Gallagher
Source: Radio Times

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