from Holst: The Planets; Matthews: Pluto (CDH55350) 6 minutes 22 seconds 1 track ‘Pluto is an exhilaratingly fleet essay, laced with Holstian allusions. Elder also presides over a perceptive account of the haunting 1933 Lyric Movement … here’s to more high-quali ... ‘Holstians will be grateful for a beautiful account of the melancholy Lyric Movement, but for those mainly interested in The Planets this has few rivals as a performance’ (International ... ‘Wonderfully imaginative [Pluto]—a lightning-fast scherzo that grows out of the dying moments of a preceding Neptune and finally evaporates as mysteriously as it started’ (The Guardian) |