Gustav Holst - The Golden Goose, Op. 45

[@tjulers]

Holst must be on the top 10 most underated composers.

[@TheProsaicCult]

Holst is not at all underrated. In fact, he is recognized as one of history's great composers.

[@missahsee]

I've been a Holst FAN since I played his "First Suite For Military Band" & Second Suite in F" back in the 1970s & 80s in HS & University. Also played Holst's "The Perfect Fool" when a new arrangement for wind band came out. I've played selections fro "The Planets" on the marching field with 360 members on the field. Was an amazing experience to lead that. My first band director played snippets of "The Planets" on our band room's Klipsch Horn speakers as we were learning "First Suite". That was so incredible, & thankful he did that for us. As a freshman in HS, I then went out to buy "The Planets" (Bernstein/NY) LP. the next afternoon. Been a FAN of Holst ever since.

[@LillianSteele-u9v]

You are the first person outside of my family that I have come across to play some of his music in both HS and College. Welcome.

[@annatabor7992]

Brilliant as ever, Holst! I didn't know about this piece but am a great Holst fan. Thanks for

[@notaire2]

Definitely a hidden treasure! Thanks for the upload with the highest sound quality!

[@Carl-lk8zn]

Telling my kids this is the national anthem

[@randallschultz3987]

Thanks for posting this unfamiliar and beautiful work.

[@rameyzamora1018]

"Galaxy Quest" composer was paying attention when somebody played this piece for him.

[@271250cl]

I think it would be useful if people who upload music to KZbin would give a little information about it. From Wiki: Choral Ballet; for chorus and orchestra; founded on the tale of the Brothers Grimm, adapted by Jane M. Joseph, written in 1926.

[@Crunkmastaflexx]

Sooooooooooooo good!

[@TheSecretmuseum]

Super. Thanks!!!

[@fionajohnston]

PS. A bit fed up when trying to listen with adverts interrupting. Quite unnecessary for you would not get that during a concert and even Classicfm would not stop the flow with an ad.

[@brillopad1392]

I found that using the Brave browser filters out all the commercials.

[@rameyzamora1018]

The investment in a good ad remover pays for itself in one listening.

[@citruscicero3130]

This isn't music. This is my lord and savior.

[@plusxz821]

Our lord and savior,complexity.

[@pierrefavereau4623]

Ca me fait un peu penser à Appalachian spring de Copland !

[@avzarathustra6164]

Oh.

[@TheTdw2000]

I can't seem to find lyrics for this online. Anyone know what they're saying?

[@Tom12090]

Same here, sadly I have no idea :D

[@jur2823]

Google "the golden goose IMSLP", all the lyrics are in the score :)

[@cetinmetin9193]

0:01 0:25 Battlestar Galactica

[@jacg016]

what they are singing about? :D

[@guentherlorre3514]

La mer

[@notaire2]

Bestimmt ein verborgener Schatz! Danke fürs Hochladen mit höchster Tonqualität!

[@TheMeanConservative]

I like 10:20

[@Belfreyite]

The words of the song "Tomorrow shall be my dancing day" are spoken by Jesus, so it's appropriate they might be a touch anti semitic

[@fairplayforchildren]

?! eh?

[@schaerffenberg]

Here's a stanza from the carol Holst set to music: "The Jews on me they made great suit, And with me made great variance, Because they loved darkness rather than light, To call my true love to my dance."

[@271250cl]

You are either an ignorant fool, or a wind-up mercant. Probably both. As you must know very well, this is a single verse from a folk-carol which Holst and many other composers (including Stravinsky) set to music. The text tells the story of Christ's life. The verse you so dishonestly quote merely recounts how the Jews took Jesus to court seeking to get him condemned for what they saw as his transgressions against the Jewish Law. 'They loved darkness rather than light' merely repeats the Christian view that the Jews were wrong not to accept Jesus as the Messiah. Holst was not an anti-semite.

[@ultonian63]

You might as well call the gospels anti-semitic then, since they refer to 'the Jews' crucifying Christ. Or are you just trolling?

[@TheTdw2000]

Sounds pretty based if you ask me.

[@doncourter8595]

A great composer, and a great socialist

[@l0lLorenzol0l]

Not everyone is perfect.

[@gregthompson5580]

Nice oxymoron.

[@TheTdw2000]

Before everyone found out socialism doesn't work

[@schaerffenberg]

Holst was also privately and publicly anti-Jewish. For example, in the authoritative "On Russian Music", musicologist Richard Taruskin tells how "Gustav Holst once set to music the same anti-Semitic carol, 'Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day' ..." So, Holst was anti-Jewish and "a great socialist". That makes him a ........

[@monophthalmos9633]

Putting music to a carol means supporting it's message? I don't think one can make this equation. So unless you have undeniable evidence, please don't bark out such grave accusaitions.

[@KeithOtisEdwards]

Other than the ancient English carol you quote -- a carol which was also arranged by David Wilcocks, Igor Stravinsky, Ronald Corp, and John Rutter (are they thus "anti-Jewish" too?) -- I defy you to provide any evidence that Holst was "privately and publicly anti-Jewish."

[@josephstein4534]

He Himself was Jewish-by-Blod, Like me.

[@brifox]

@@monophthalmos9633 The goal of the person you're responding to is pretending that Holst was a Nazi. Which of course makes zero sense, as despite the name of their party the Nazis were in no way socialists.

[@petrut.1224]

@marc roland, Please spare us with this nonsense! So what if he was antisemite?! Are you going to condemn him for a few words supposedly said in a moment?! Everywhere I look I see the same language: racist, antisemite, nazi, etc. Do you think only the jewish have suffered from the WWII? If someone says something outrageous about romanian (1,5 million deported in russia ), ukrainians (7 millions death by famine aka holodomor), chinese (35 million deaths) or countless others from other nations nothing happens and no one triggers. When someone says a single word about jewish people everyone is triggered. We all suffered from the atrocities of war (my great-granfather was deported and died in Siberia). War has destroyed everything in my own country. I don't want to recall what my grandma told me about every disease they encountered and every projectile flying above their heads! Again, my nation's people are bullied always about their est-european origins, they don't brag about it, but snowflakes like you are triggered by a composers words for a nation you probably being not a part of. Please shut up and enjoy the music!