Gustav Holst

Morris dancing has been part of English culture and tradition for more than five centuries and still flourishes today in all parts of the UK. Douglas Wagner has made use of Holst's charismatic style i...

Gustav Holst's beautiful melody serves as the foundation from which Robert W. Smith fashions this remarkable work. From a haunting single voice, a stunning climax is reached before giving way to a sim...

In all of music literature, there is little that is more breathtaking in its raw musical power than this movement from Gustav Holst's The Planets. A thundering war theme introduces the work in a drama...

This glorious Holst carol, the first movement of Holst's Winter Suite for Band, has been magnificently scored to be performed independently as a regal and solemn hymn or as a prelude to 'In the Bleak...

This glorious Holst carol, the first movement of Holst's Winter Suite for Band, has been magnificently scored to be performed independently as a regal and solemn hymn or as a prelude to 'In the Bleak...

This glorious Holst carol, the first movement of Holst's Winter Suite for Band, has been magnificently scored to be performed independently as a regal and solemn hymn or as a prelude to ''In the Bleak...

This glorious Holst carol, the first movement of Holst's Winter Suite for Band, has been magnificently scored to be performed independently as a regal and solemn hymn or as a prelude to 'In the Bleak...

This tender Holst melody has been magnificently scored to be performed independently as a beautiful serence carol or in conjunction with the other movements of The Holst Winter Suite for Band. The fir...

Setting by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edited by Robert Grechesky. Grades 4-5.

Version for Concert Band (grades 4-5) by James Curnow.

Gustav Holst (Cheltenham, 1874 - London, 1934) was of the very first great British composers of classical music to write some valuable original compositions for symphonic band. Holst composed operas,...

A preview of Holst's intention to write a piano duet comes in his Four Organ Voluntaries (written in 1890-91 for the organ at All Saints Church, Cheltenham). At the end of the last of these (a Funeral...

From the composer of The Planets comes this beloved Christmas carol. Voted the best carol in a 2008 BBC Music Magazine poll of some of the world's leading music directors, this lesser-known carol is a...