COMPOSERS: Holst
LABELS: Chandos
ALBUM TITLE: Holst
WORKS: A Somerset Rhapsody; A Fugal Overture; Egdon Heath; Hammersmith; Capriccio; Scherzo
PERFORMER: LSO/Richard Hickox
CATALOGUE NO: CHAN 10911 X (1996)
Punchy, in-your-face accounts, in turbocharged sound – convincing in A Fugal Overture and the Scherzo from Holst’s unfinished Symphony, less so in A Somerset Rhapsody and Egdon Heath.
Malcolm Hayes