‘An immensely charming, tuneful collection, orchestrated with much wit and delicacy … as usual from this particular company, presentation is absolutely first-class, and the recording is ripe and realistic to match’ (Gramophone)

‘Most vivid and sensitive performance’ (Gramophone)

‘Full, immediate recording’ (The Daily Telegraph)

‘A fine issue’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘An attractive disc’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘If you have not come across Holst’s Savitri, then I envy you the prospect of hearing this small miracle of a one-act opera for the first time. Fine performances make this a budget-price bargain’ (Classic FM Magazine)

‘This CD contains one of the masterpieces of British music of the last century … Savitri deserves a place of honour on the shelf marked "British"’ (International Record Review)

‘The performances here are wonderfully responsive. The individual voices seem perfectly attuned to the special colouring of Holst's music’ (Gramophone)

'Colin Davis, as might be expected, has no problems, conjuring like Uranus the Magician, the full panoply of atmosphere, stillness and energy from the vitruoso LSO' (The Daily Telegraph)

‘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-quality productions from this new partnership’ (Gramophone)

‘Colin Matthews has finally completed the picture with Pluto, and hearing it on this fine recording alongside Holst’s original, the scale of his achievement becomes clear. Fast, pacy and light like the solar winds of the planet itself, Colin Matthews has enhanced our enjoyment and appreciation of Holst’s original work, beautifully and movingly played here by the Hallé Orchestra under Mark Elder’ (Classic FM Magazine)

‘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 Record Review)