Holst "Mercury" ('The Planets') - Sir Ernest MacMillan / Toronto Symphony (1942)
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Channel: adam28xx · 2015 · Music
In 1942, Sir Ernest MacMillan and the Toronto Symphony recorded the first four movements of Holst's 'The Planets' Suite. It was the first time this music had been commercially recorded outside England. We hear now the third of them, as mercurial a "winged messenger" as anyone is likely to hear!
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