Help with Holst
Can anyone help with suggestions of recordings of Gustav Holst's setting of the Nunc Dimittis?
I just tried searching for it at emusic but can actually see no way of using emusic's search engine to find it - though I did find this recording by an apparently similar composer:
I actually suspect there is a typo in there and this opera should be titled "Gustav Halts the Planets".
If the recordings is available on emusic and/or if it lets me buy that piece without buying a whole album, so much the better.
I just tried searching for it at emusic but can actually see no way of using emusic's search engine to find it - though I did find this recording by an apparently similar composer:
I actually suspect there is a typo in there and this opera should be titled "Gustav Halts the Planets".
If the recordings is available on emusic and/or if it lets me buy that piece without buying a whole album, so much the better.
Comments
http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/city-of-london-choir/holst-the-coming-of-christ/13111464/:
"The Coming of Christ", the main work on the album, is Holst's contribution to a 1927 mystery play (no, not like "The Mousetrap"), with narration.
As for that recording of "The Planets", I recall pointing out to eMusic a couple of years ago that it was probably an illegal copy of Karajan's 1981 recording. I'm still waiting for a reply from their "content team".
http://us.7digital.com/artist/paul-mccreesh-gabrieli-consort-and-players/release/road-to-paradise?h=10
http://us.7digital.com/artist/christ-church-cathedral-choir-of-men-and-boys-indianapolis/release/into-the-light?h=20
Hope that's what you are looking for.
The reason for asking this, by the way, is a recent act of musical wisdom that made an impression on me. Just recently I had to attend our annual honors convocation, where students graduating with honors are congratulated and given certificates and there is a speech and much reading of names as people parade across the stage. It's not a bad event really, but sometimes a bit of a chore, and an evening obligation late in the semester is never entirely welcome. Well a new twist this year was that one of the college choral groups came onto the stage at the end and sang the above piece, and sang it very beautifully - it was one of those moments when live music transcends itself, and was really very touching. So I want to hear it again, with at least the memory of that occasion to add resonance to the recording.