The Planets Gustav Holst / Arr. Christiaan Janssen

Titel / Title: The Planets
Untertitel / Subtitle: Suite for Large Orchestra
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: concert band
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Serie / Series: Baton Music orchestral series

'The Planets' by English composer Gustav Holst is a seven-movement orchestral suite in which each movement is named after a planet of the Solar System and its corresponding astrological character. The orchestration is very imaginative and colourful, showing the influence of such contemporary composers as Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as such late Russian romantics as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov.
From its premiere to the present day, the suite has been enduringly popular, influential, widely performed and frequently recorded.