2/5. Donald Macleod investigates two very different influences on Holst's music - Henry Purcell and Hindu mythology - and introduces his choral and orchestral piece The Cloud Messenger, which is based on Sanskrit poetry. Hoist was a trombonist, and he wrote some of the first significant works for wind band. His First Suite, of 1909, begins, Purcell-like, with a chaconne. Suite No 1, Op 28 No 1
The Central Band of the Royal Air Force, conductor Wg Cdr Eric Banks The Cloud Messenger Op 30
Della Jones (mezzo), London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight