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Jupiter – The Planets – Holst

One of my very favorites. I have been listening to this for over 50 years. It brings back my youth. In spirit anyway. Performance by James Levine and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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4 responses to “Jupiter – The Planets – Holst”

  1. kathy.kinsley@gmail.com Avatar
    kathy.kinsley@gmail.com

    Lovely music – but too fast, too sprightly, too excited. Venus, maybe. But Jupiter should be ponderous, thoughtful. Slow and powerful. Not sprightly.

    Sorry.

  2. Simon Avatar
    Simon

    This is in fact the most ponderous version I could find.

    Think of the children dancing around Jupiter who is a father.

  3. Kathy Kinsley Avatar
    Kathy Kinsley

    “Daddy, look at me!!!” LOL

    Unlike Saturn, where they’d be saying, “Daddy, don’t look at me!” (Warning: disturbing image by Goya at link.)

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    Simon

    Saturn is old age. Which does devour children.