CD review: Gustav Holst – The Planets
(with Colin Matthews – Pluto, the Renewer; Kaija Saariaho – Asteroid 4179: Toutatis; Matthias Pintscher – towards Osiris; Mark-Anthony Turnage – Ceres; Brett Dean – Komarov’s Fall)
Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Simon Rattle
EMI Classics 69690; CD
The New York Times, November 12, 2006
(ArkivMusic, Barnes & Noble)

Playlist:

Ellery Eskelin – Quiet Music (Prime Source)

Richard Strauss – Don Juan; Death and Transfiguration; Salome: "Dance of the Seven Veils"; Der Rosenkavalier: Suite – New York Philharmonic/Lorin Maazel (Deutsche Grammophon)

Leoš Janáček – Kát’a Kabanová – Elisabeth Söderström, Naděžda Kniplová, Peter Dvorský, Vienna State Opera Choir, Vienna Philharmonic/Charles Mackerras (Decca)

George Frideric Handel – Opera Seria – Sandrine Piau, Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (Naïve)

George Frideric Handel – La Maga Abbandonata – Simone Kermes, Maite Beaumont, Il Complesso Barocco/Alan Curtis (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)

Ludwig van Beethoven – Complete Works for Cello and Piano – Pierre Fournier and Friedrich Gulda (Deutsche Grammophon)

eighth blackbird – Strange Imaginary Animals (Cedille)

Bill Frisell – Unspeakable (Nonesuch)

Various Artists – American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986 (Rhino)

Grateful Dead – Soldier Field, Chicago, IL, July 9, 1995 (MP3 stream via Archive.org)

Phil Kline – Unsilent Night and Zippo Songs (Cantaloupe)

Blind Willie Johnson – "John the Revelator" from Dark Was the Night (Sony Legacy)

The One AM Radio – "Lest I Forget" from This Too Will Pass (Dangerbird, due Jan. 30, via MySpace)

Stephen Sondheim – Company – Original Cast Recording (Columbia)

Nikolai Miaskovsky – Symphonies Nos. 6 & 10 – Ural Philharmonic Orchestra/Dmitri Liss (Warner Classics)

Riccardo Zandonai – Francesca da Rimini – Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo, Matteo Manguerra, Opera Orchestra of New York/Eve Queler (Opera d’Oro)

Philip Glass – Music in 12 Parts – Philip Glass Ensemble (Nonesuch)