The Planets
Posted by: Morri on 30 April 2005
Does anyone have a view on which CD provides the best recording of this piece of music? There are so many versions out there I don't know where to start.
Posted on: 30 April 2005 by Cosmoliu
Hi Morri,
There's a brief discussion of The Planets here. A couple of the contributors like the Von Karajan version. I have Andre Previn and the Royal Philharmonic Orch on Telarc CD-80133, which is very good, particularly the sonics. I bought an interesting CD of Stokowski and the NBC Orchestra recorded in a live performance for broadcast. Great performance but horrible sonics: during quiet passages you can hear by the repeating scratches that the CD was dubbed from 78s!
Norman
There's a brief discussion of The Planets here. A couple of the contributors like the Von Karajan version. I have Andre Previn and the Royal Philharmonic Orch on Telarc CD-80133, which is very good, particularly the sonics. I bought an interesting CD of Stokowski and the NBC Orchestra recorded in a live performance for broadcast. Great performance but horrible sonics: during quiet passages you can hear by the repeating scratches that the CD was dubbed from 78s!
Norman
Posted on: 30 April 2005 by graham55
To repeat myself, I'd go for Karajan's earlier VPO performance on Decca 452 303 (not to be confused with his Berlin remake for DGG). It comes with Monteux's superb LSO account of the Enigma Variations.
Graham
Graham
Posted on: 30 April 2005 by Morri
Thanks for your help.
Posted on: 03 May 2005 by kevj
Or you could try Charles Dutoit/Montreal.....this is also pretty good. A friend of mine listened to a lot of these (Planets recordings) before he bought and this is the one he chose.
Kevin
Kevin
Posted on: 10 June 2005 by andrew sutton
The combination of dutoit/montreal/holst's planets blew my stack(soot out of). Is there a better version?
Posted on: 16 June 2005 by Michael
The Dutoit/Montreal version on Decca/London is stunning.. one of the few versions where the weight of the organ pedals really comes through... and that "crash" after the opening bars of Mars sends shivers down the spine... CDS3/552/500/NBLs... always near the top of my demo disc list!