Conductor Thomas Adès leads a voyage through the solar system with performances on February 26 and 27, as well as March 1 ...

Each movement describes in music the character of a planet ... But although astrology was Holst's starting point, he arranged the planets to suit his own musical plan.

Gustav Holst’s The Planets (1914–16 ... signalled by clattering tubular bells. The music dies down and the mood changes again with a fragile combination of extremes: gentle double basses ...

The Planets, written between 1914 and 1916 ... described how ‘he sank into a cold region of utter despair...a grey isolation’. Holst himself, summing it all up, pinpointed ‘Four chief reasons for ...

which include The Planets and, subsequently, Thaxted - the piece composed for Jupiter - to which the words of I Vow to Thee, My Country were later put. Mr Lima said he came across Holst's music ...

“It’s an inevitable comparison—and I am inspired and influenced by Holst's music—but not specifically The Planets,” said Dexter in an interview. “But I'm inspired by many composers ...