Gustav Holst - Egdon Heath, "A Homage to Thomas Hardy" (1927)

[@valerieheinderyckx4506]

Superbe et sous évalué , comme Beni Mora entre autres oeuvres de Holst. Merci infiniment. ❤

[@gracewenzel]

Absolutely gorgeous. My collection of his works to send to people to prove he wasn’t just “the Planets guy” grows.

[@moviemaestro800]

I can see why Holst was most proud of this composition. It is beautifully haunting, and sounds very much like a maturation of his orchestral writing style.

[@davidcrook5511]

I've just joined a book club at the over-60s complex where I live and I'm reading "The Return Of The Native" which I believe inspired this piece especially the opening chapter and shame on me for not discovering this music before!! Vintage folksy-modal English love it! I wonder if Sir Andrew Davis was remembering his legendary performance of the Organ Lesson by Tallis when he was Organ Scholar at King's....

[@leopoldcat5548]

I’m revisiting this piece after a long absence. It’s even more beautiful than I remember; so haunting and atmospheric.Thank you for posting it with the score.

[@hucbald37]

For me this very good piece seems to be dear Gustav's late answer to his planets and also a comment to "tunes". As if to say: "There's so much more to say." - Wish he could have telled us so much more after May of 1934... I'll never stop begging all my german mates "please, love Holst for so much more than the (really wonderful) planets!"

[@steveegallo3384]

Sensational! New to me.....BRAVO from Acapulco!

[@hippolytabaker9559]

Egdon Heath is mandatory Holst listening for me. Just like I say that Vaughan Williams's 9th is mandatory listening for him. I've said this for a decade of my quarter century long life and will continue to say it through the ages.

[@davidcrook5511]

I love the 9th by RVW that too has connections with Hardy particularly with "Tess Of The D'Urbevilles" so I understand (I've also been told that "Tess" is unspeakably tragic whereas RVW's 9th isn't...)

[@rogerbrown9833]

This could be the "Earth" movement of the Planets.

[@MrRbjunior83]

“Alien” 1-2-3-4… Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Elliott Goldenthall, John Frizzel… What similarities 😮

[@malthuswasright]

John Williams, ahem, "references" Holst frequently, particularly in the Star Wars films.

[@hucbald37]

Yes, what would be Film music without Holst and his pals (Vaughan-Williams, Debussy, Mahler, Stravinsky)...

[@lukas_koe]

That guy from mad max: fury road is pretty spooky

[@jaehyeokchoi1968]

As expected, holst!

[@oscargill423]

Rautavaara is that you?

[@betweenlakes]

Yes! Good call

[@Maxime_Grisé]

Have to ask: What fonts did you use for the video thumbnail? Looks really nice!

[@Cmaj7]

It's just the text from the score. I don't know the font

[@kell_0741]

Its sad that in every comments section of a Holst piece I see others still managing to tie Holst (singularly) to the planets even if only saying he: "wasn't just the planets." Enjoy the planets suite when listening to it, but it doesn't need to constantly be brought up elsewhere. Ironically I am doing this thing right now.

[@hucbald37]

You do mate, just like me... - It's like to tell everybody for a thousand times that the recorder is a real instrument. Cheers from Duisburg GE!

[@eklipsoverda]

One of my most favorite pieces ever ... but I had to laugh a bit when I saw the score. I would never have guessed that it was (technically) written in C major.

[@eklipsoverda]

Or perhaps that it has no fixed key signature at all.

[@txxs.]

3:33

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

Who said modernistic classical music can't be harmonious and beatiful?

[@malthuswasright]

This is 100 years old - it's not "modernistic"

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

Compare to what? Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Shostakovich and Bartok were all modernistic and were composing 100 years ago and continued wring untill the 50's/70's. The term "modernism" in classical music refers to the post-modern era of classical composition that emerged through the 20th century. This style was innovative and broke most tonal misconceptions of the classical/romantic music of the past, creating post-tonal/a-tonal music. Most of this music is over 50-100 years. Specifically Holst was living in the 20ths century but was mostly being described as late romanticist. It's true mostly, and yet to my opinion in such rare pieces he did used a pretty open tonal language in addition to romantic music. If for you modernism is only new music to theoretically Dua Lipa is modern music 😂 But she is not classical music, that's for sure... ​@@malthuswasright

[@regpharvey]

@@malthuswasright Modernism in music occurred around the turn of the 20th Century. This is modernist. Modernist =/= contemporary or "right now."

[@malthuswasright]

@@regpharvey I'm well aware of that. But even in his day Holst would not have been considered a "modernist", even by English standards (and certainly not on the continent).

[@hucbald37]

@@malthuswasright That's true. But he gave us most wonderful music "between the worlds"...

[@jamesbarlow6423]

No doubt influenced Gorecki....