The Planets discography

This is a discography of The Planets, Op. 32, an orchestral suite by Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916, and first performed by the Queen's Hall Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult on 29 September 1918. It includes the composer's own recordings made in 1922–23 and 1926.

Orchestral version

Year	Conductor	Orchestra	Label	Recording notes
1922	Gustav Holst	London Symphony Orchestra	Columbia	Recorded 27 October 1922 (Jupiter only) at Petty France Studios. Acoustic recording.[1]
1923	Gustav Holst	London Symphony Orchestra	Columbia	Recorded 23 August (Mercury, Venus), 24 August (Uranus), 30 October (Mars, Saturn), 6 November (Neptune) at Petty France Studios. Acoustic recording.[1]
1925	Gustav Holst	London Symphony Orchestra	Columbia	Recorded 19 February (Saturn), 15 September (Jupiter) at Petty France Studios. Acoustic recording.[1]
1926	Gustav Holst	London Symphony Orchestra, Women's Chorus	Columbia	Complete work recorded on 22 June, 2 July, 14 September and 22 October at Petty France Studios. Electrical recording. Released in December 1926;[1] re-issued on LP in 1972 and on CD from 1991 onwards.[2]
1926	Albert Coates	Symphony Orchestra	HMV	Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus only. Reissued on CD in 1992 on Koch Historic.
1942	Sir Ernest MacMillan	Toronto Symphony Orchestra	RCA Victor	Never officially released on CD by Sony; however was released on CD by Analekta in 2006 on Portrait: Sir Ernest MacMillan. Only four movements were recorded (Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter).
1943	Leopold Stokowski	NBC Symphony Orchestra	Cala Records	From an NBC radio broadcast in Studio 8H, New York City, the earliest American performance on disc.
1945	Sir Adrian Boult	BBC Symphony Orchestra	HMV	The first of Boult's five recordings of the work.
1954	Sir Adrian Boult	Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra	Nixa	The orchestra was the London Philharmonic Orchestra recording pseudonymously for contractual reasons.
1954	Sir Malcolm Sargent	London Symphony Orchestra	Decca	Kingsway Hall. Engineer Kenneth Wilkinson
1956	Leopold Stokowski	Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra	Capitol	The work's first stereo recording, originally issued as an LP and reissued on CD by EMI.
1958	Sir Malcolm Sargent	BBC Symphony Orchestra	HMV	Reissued on CD on the EMI Classics for Pleasure label.
1960	Sir Adrian Boult	Vienna State Opera Orchestra	Whitehall
1961	Herbert von Karajan	Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra	Decca	Reissued in 2007 in a 24-bit, 96kbit/s remastered edition.
1965	Sir Malcolm Sargent	BBC Symphony Orchestra	IMP	Royal Festival Hall, London, February 3rd 1965. Issued on IMP CD in 1995.
1967	Sir Adrian Boult	New Philharmonia Orchestra	HMV
1970	Bernard Haitink	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Philips
1970	Bernard Herrmann	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Decca	Released on Phase 4 Stereo in 1970.
1970	William Steinberg	Boston Symphony Orchestra	Deutsche Grammophon	Recorded in Symphony Hall, Boston, September and October 1970.
1971	Leonard Bernstein	New York Philharmonic Orchestra	CBS	Released on LP in 1973 and reissued on CD in 1985 and 1997. Bernstein's final Young People's Concerts broadcast featured this work.
1971	Zubin Mehta	Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra	Decca
1973	André Previn	London Symphony Orchestra	EMI	Kingsway Hall. Engineer Christopher Parker.
1974	George Hurst	Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra	Contour	Recorded at Southampton Guildhall. Producer Brian Culverhouse, engineer Brian Couzens.
1975	James Loughran	Hallé Orchestra	CfP/EMI	This recording won a Gold Disc for EMI and came eighth in the top 30 most played classical recordings over the past three quarters of a century on the BBC (December 2009).
1975	Walter Susskind	Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra	VOX	Reissued in 2004 by MFSL as a hybrid multichannel SACD.
1975	Eugene Ormandy	Philadelphia Orchestra	RCA	Reissued in 1993.
1978	Sir Adrian Boult	London Philharmonic Orchestra	EMI	Recorded May–July 1978 and released for Boult's 90th birthday.
1978	Neville Marriner	Concertgebouw Orchestra	Philips
1979	Sir Georg Solti	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Decca
1979	Alexander Gibson	Scottish National Orchestra	Chandos	Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, 2 and 3 July 1979.
1979	Seiji Ozawa	Boston Symphony Orchestra	Philips	Recorded in December, 1979. Reissued in 1992, 2005 and 2010.
1980	Lorin Maazel	Orchestre National de France	CBS Records	Released in 1981. Notable for the use of a children's choir in Neptune.
1981	Herbert von Karajan	Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra	Deutsche Grammophon
1981	Sir Simon Rattle	Philharmonia Orchestra	EMI
1986	Sir Andrew Davis	Toronto Symphony Orchestra	HMV	Recorded in The Centre in The Square, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada on 20 January 1986.
1986	André Previn	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra	Telarc Digital	Recorded in Watford Town Hall, London on 14 and 15 April 1986.
1986	John Williams	Boston Pops Orchestra	Philips	Boston Symphony Hall
1986	Charles Dutoit	Montreal Symphony Orchestra	Decca / Penguin Classics	Recording by Decca and reissued in 1998 by Penguin Classics. Later used for a multi-disciplinary (skating, ballet/dance, music) vision.[3] This recording was awarded the 1987 Gramophone Award for Engineering .
1987	Eduardo Mata	Dallas Symphony Orchestra	Proarte
1987	Sir Charles Groves	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra	Sanctuary Classics	Recorded in July, 1987 at Watford Town Hall.
1987	Richard Hickox	London Symphony Orchestra	IMP Classics	Recorded at EMI Studios, Abbey Road Studio 1 on 8 and 9 July 1987.
1987	Geoffrey Simon	London Symphony Orchestra	Delta Entertainment	Recorded at All Saints, Tooting. reissued in 1998.
1988	William Boughton	Philharmonia Orchestra	Nimbus	Recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London, 11 and 12 January 1988.
1988	Adrian Leaper	Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra	Naxos	Recorded from 26–30 November 1988 in Bratislava and released in 1989. Includes Suite de Ballet, Op. 10 by Holst.
1988	Sir Charles Mackerras	Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra	Virgin Classics	Recorded at The Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool in June 1988. Released on CD 1989.
1989	James Levine	Chicago Symphony Orchestra	Deutsche Grammophon	Released in 1991.
1989	Hilary Davan Wetton	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Collins Classics
1989	Sir Colin Davis	Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra	Philips
1990	Zubin Mehta	New York Philharmonic Orchestra	Teldec
1991	James Judd	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra	Denon	Recorded at Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London on 1-2 December 1991. Released on CD 1992.
1992	Ross Pople	London Festival Orchestra	ASV
1992	Evgeny Svetlanov	Philharmonia Orchestra	Collins Classics	Reissued 1995 by Edgestone Classics (EC029). The Svetlanov website indicates another recording by him with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra.
1993	Vernon Handley	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra	Tring	Recorded October 1993, released 1994.
1993	Sir Andrew Davis	BBC Symphony Orchestra	Teldec	Recorded at St Augustine's Church, London in December 1993.
1994	José Serebrier	Melbourne Symphony Orchestra	ASV
1994	John Eliot Gardiner	Philharmonia Orchestra	Deutsche Grammophon	Released in 1995.
1995	Adrian Leaper	Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria	Arte Nova Classics	Live recording 25 January 1995 at the Teatro Pérez Galdós, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
1996	Leonard Slatkin	Philharmonia Orchestra	BMG Classics	Released in 1997 on CD.
1996	Yan Pascal Tortelier	BBC Philharmonic	BBC Music Magazine	Recorded July 13, 1996 in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
1997	Roy Goodman	New Queens Hall Orchestra	Carlton Classics
1997	Yoel Levi	Atlanta Symphony Orchestra	Telarc Digital	Recorded in Symphony Hall, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia, April 3–4, 1997.
1998	Andrew Litton	Dallas Symphony Orchestra	Delos
1998	Djong Victorin Yu	Philharmonia Orchestra	Exton / Octavia Records Inc.
2001	David Lloyd-Jones	Royal Scottish National Orchestra	Naxos	Recorded February 17 and 18, 2001 in Glasgow and released in 2002 on CD and 5.1 surround sound (Dolby+DTS) DVD. Includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews and The Mystic Trumpeter by Holst.
2001	Mark Elder	Hallé Orchestra	Hyperion	Recorded in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on 27 and 28 March 2001. Includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews, commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society and first performed by the Hallé under Kent Nagano on 11 May 2000. This recording also includes both the original and modified ending versions of Neptune.
2002	Dennis Russell Davies	Bruckner Orchester Linz	Chesky Records	Recorded October 2–4, 2001 in the Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria. Released on SACD in 2002, and later as a digital download via Chesky's HDtracks site.
2002	Sir Roger Norrington	Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra	Hänssler	Live recording, Liederhalle, Stuttgart, 27, 28 and 29 June 2001.
2003	Vernon Handley	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra	RPO	Released in 2004.
2003	Sir Colin Davis	London Symphony Orchestra	LSO Live	Live recording for the orchestra's own label in 2003.
2004	Owain Arwel Hughes	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra	Warner Classics	Recorded 26 and 27 April 2004, Watford Colosseum. Released on CD 2005. Includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews.
2005	Yutaka Sado	NHK Symphony Orchestra	Avex
2005	Rico Saccani	Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra	BPO Live
2006	Sir Simon Rattle	Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra	EMI	Includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews (see 2001 Mark Elder recording, above).
		Skidmore College Orchestra	Musopen	Jupiter (8:28): Mars (8:18):
2009	Paavo Järvi	Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra	Telarc
2009	Vladimir Jurowski	London Philharmonic Orchestra	LPO	Recorded live at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, London on 22 May 2009. Released on CD 2010.
2011	Sir Andrew Davis	BBC Philharmonic	Chandos
2012	André Previn	London Symphony Orchestra	Cobra Entertainment LLC

Concert Band version

Year	Conductor	Orchestra	Label	Recording notes
1989	Eric Banks	London Symphonic Wind Orchestra	EMI Music Japan	Recorded at Abbey Road Studios on 11–12 April 1989. Wind orchestra version of the complete seven-movement suite transcribed by Cy Payne.
1994	Frederick Fennell	Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra	King Records, Japan	Recorded at Iruma Shimin Kaikan Hall (Saitama, Japan) on 3–4 November 1994. Released in 1995. Concert band version by Takuzo Inagaki.
1994	Daniel Sieber	« Belalp » Jubilee Wind Orchestra	Tonstudio AMOS	Recorded at Zentrum Missione, Naters on 26–27 November 1994. Concert band version by Pierre-Alain Bidaud, Jean-Pierre Hartmann and Daniel Sieber.
1996	James Watson	Black Dyke Mills Band	Doyen	Brass band version by Stephen Roberts.
1998	Eddie Green	University of Houston Wind Ensemble	Mark Custom	Concert band version by Merlin Patterson.
1998		United States Air Force Heritage of America Band		Mars (7:58): Venus (8:21): Mercury (4:23): Jupiter (8:00): Uranus (5:19):
2003	Commander Yoshiiku Aoki	Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Band, Tokyo	Universal Music Japan	Live recording at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall on 3 February 2003. Concert band version by Tatsuya Konishi.
2005	Ton van de Kieft	Noordenwind	Molenaar Edition	Live recording at Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam on 1 July 2005. Concert band version by Geert Schrijvers.

Two-piano transcription

Year	Conductor	Label	Recording notes
1984	Richard Markham, David Nettle	Psyche	Two-piano transcription.
1998	Len Vorster, Robert Chamberlain	Naxos	Two-piano transcription.
2000	Anthony Goldstone, Caroline Clemmow	Olympia	Two-piano transcription.
2001	John York, Fiona York	Black Box	One piano, four hands transcription. Reissued 2011 on Nimbus Records.
2004	Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Susan Bradshaw	Delos	Two-piano transcription.

Other versions

Year	Conductor	Orchestra	Label	Recording notes
1976	Isao Tomita		RCA	Released in 1976/1991. Free arrangement and abridgement for electronic synthesiser.
1985	Kevin Peek with Rick Wakeman and Jeff Wayne			Progressive rock version called Beyond the Planets.
1996	Peter Sykes		Raven	Version for organ.
2009	Hugh Banton		Fie	Organ transcription.
2010		Buzz Ensemble	Fidelio	Version for brass and organ.
2010	Stefan Moser		H and M	Version for organ.

References

1. Stuart, Philip. The LSO Discography. 2009. Available at CHARM website, accessed 28 March 2013.
2. All the music from The Planets conducted by the composer, including alternate takes and original couplings, was issued together for the first time in 2014: Sanders, A. Review of Explore Multimedia ExM008. Classical Recordings Quarterly. Autumn 2014, No 78, p59-60.
3. The Planets (Multi-disciplinary) version only reference was found here: at Amazon