'The Planets' (Holst) - unfamiliarly brought to us by Andrew Manze (not surprisingly)

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27 January

'The Planets' (Holst) - unfamiliarly brought to us by Andrew Manze (not surprisingly)

* Regardless of whether the astrological element really signifies much [https://t.co/tucwNBnnct], or whether Pluto is or isn't 'a planet' :

* We're told that 'planet' is from πλάνητες ἀστέρες (planētes asteres, 'wandering stars') or simply πλανῆται (planētai, 'wanderers') ->

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But *who* are the actual 'wanderers' in this Solar System... ?

With a geocentric view even of it / us, there are seven movements, one for each of the then-known planets - but (naturally ?) omitting Earth, as if the others alone (seen from Earth), are The Planets, and we are... ?

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Anyway, it is such a fine performance / capture on recording / piece of broadcasting that one can hear here *so much more* :

Just with '4 flutes (third doubling first piccolo and fourth doubling second piccolo and "bass flute in G", actually an alto flute)', one hears piccolo !

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To close :

I Tweeted this yesterday - 1972 was the year of which too little note was taken :https://t.co/7KooVF4Lss

And, after a spectacular performance on R3 (conducted by Clare College's own Andrew Manze), one has a fuller appreciation of time in 'Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age (1915)'

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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)