The Planets - VII. Neptune, the Mystic - Gustav Holst

Wonderful, transformative, a journey through space...

Where are the singers located in the hall?

The whole suite from the adrenaline filled dark angry Mars, to the very royal sounding Jupiter to the absolutely superb and out of this world finale of Neptune is an amazing performance. Mars draws you in and keeps you firmly in your place lusting after more and then at the end of Neptune you are left hanging wanting more… and more…

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Mr Robot

The coughing 😭

I'm only here for replay at five minutes fourty five

I was listening to abc classic fm and i thought i heard a gustaf song the planets and then 4 days later it actually was this song

dang can everyone stop coughing so damn much

i think this piece kinda inspires harry potter's music

Bernard Herrmanns Twilight Zone theme

Not a single shot of the choir! WTF!!!! Or worse still, it was prerecorded! OMFG!

Siren's Voices

Where is the choir??

Gustav Holst(1874-1934) is my Favourite composer for Symphony Orchestra. Amazing music!

Not Only Is The Planets about the planets themselves and astrology but Gustav Holst also wrote this suite with the idea of life from the beginning of a huge moment till the end of a chapter with the Choir ending Neptune as you pass on to the next life.

I love how they put a bust of the composer on display at the RAH.

Literally transports you to another world

Can you imagine being in the RAH after that. How could you sleep that night?

A beautiful performance, but spoiled by all the coughing. Mabey a cough medicine should be administered before the performance begins.

They did the ending properly. She didn't rush it, and most importantly we didn't hear the choir stop singing, well not on this video anyway, it's a terribly quiet recording. If the audience clapping had been cut off it would have been perfect.

very bad

why is there nonstop coughing 😭😭 its so beautiful otherwise

i know my classical music and as far as i can comprehend, this piece of music is the purest form of metaphysics and imagination that I know.

Coughs are the meteorites that hit Neptune

A magnificent, dream-fed experience!

Okay, who's been coughing throughout this entire thing.

A great performance of a favorite of mine. I also recommend the organ version.

That inconsiderate cougher kept coughing throughout the intro, my favorite part! 😤

Excellent.

It's a little ironic that after demoting Pluto from planet status, we're right back to Holst's original roll call of the planets! :)

There are more than one or two phrases and motifs here that wouldn't sound out of place in John Williams' chilling and eerie soundtrack of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Listen to Vaughan-Williams (who was also a main companion of Holst) Symphony No.4, and I think you may have the lot. Glue it all together, and you have the 1977 soundtrack.

The 1977 film stands up well today. I think it stands up better today, than it did then. It was viewed as science fiction then.

Jk

Stop coughing 🧍

Simply magnificent.

THE CHOIR PART IS PLAYBACK. WHAT A PITY!

If women didn't wear such overbearingly powerful perfume nobody would be coughing. It does my head in when I'm in a crowd. Some of that stuff is like inhaling paint fumes.

I think so sickly dying and diseased people in the audience should be culled immediately.

I fell like it would be soundtrack for a Disney or Studio Ghibli’s movie

Mesmerizing. After listening to this piece for many years, it is a sweet gift to witness the intensity of concentration of the musicians and conductor. And what a treat, not to be able to see the singers, and only wonder where they are in the darkness of Royal Albert Hall.

Cough concerto

Incredible writing. I’m just sitting here crying. It truly amazes me what is achievable through music and I always think that it’s the greatest gift ever given from anyone or anything on this planet. I just wish the idea that classical music is for nerds only disappears because so many people are missing out on unique experiences that I genuinely think change the way you think.

How many of you were thinking….. “stop coughing!! Take a cough drop!!….” 🤣

女声合唱がよく響いていて聞こえやすいですね。

The first 23 seconds of this really sounds like Birth of the Twins & Padme's Destiny from the Revenge of the Sith soundtrack

This music will sometimes float through the hollow halls of my mind as I’m thinking about nothing.