Our solar system is the subject of composer Gustav Holst's The Planets, which premiered 100 years ago on Sept. 29, 1918. To mark the anniversary, we've enlisted two experts to guide us on an ...

A visualisation for Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite "The Planets" by Polish graphic artists Natalia Oliwiak and Michał Kata ...

100 years after Gustav Holst’s The Planets was premiered, we hear the work performed on the very Broadwood piano it was written on. On 15 November 1919, three movements of Holst’s The Planets were ...

Some composers are fated to be known by just one piece. Gustav Holst is one. His Planets suite is one of the great orchestral hits, endlessly pillaged for film and advertising soundtracks. And yet The ...

Gustav Holst’s The Planets (1914–16) has inspired countless sci-fi film scores and has long been a favourite of audiences at the BBC Proms. Ahead of its return this year, here’s a quick orbit around ...

Bruno Lima is "a great cheerleader" for Gustav Holst and the composer's international fanbase A student from Brazil who is studying Gustav Holst says visiting his birthplace will allow him to "be ...

One hundred years ago, a symphonic blockbuster was born in London. The Planets, by Gustav Holst, premiered on this date in 1918. The seven-movement suite, depicting planets from our solar system, has ...

Gustav Holst's Planets don't exactly line up like the real ones — he skips Earth and Pluto, which wouldn't be discovered until a dozen years after The Planets premiered. So after "Mercury" we skip on ...