‘An attractive disc’ (BBC Music Magazine)

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

‘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)

‘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)

‘The Planets is beautifully performed, the Hallé on fine form and radiantly strong in Mars, Jupiter and Holst’s swansong, the Lyric Suite’ (Yorkshire Post)

‘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)

‘Fascinating … the Holst Singers cover themselves in distinction. A gem’ (CDReview)

‘A real joy to listen through without interruption’ (Gramophone)

‘Splendid, vigorous, animated, hilarious’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘Highly entertaining’ (Classical Music)

‘Rollicking good fun’ (The Cornish Guardian)