Year | Conductor | (Chorus and) Orchestra | Label | Recording notes | 1922 | Gustav Holst | London Symphony Orchestra | Columbia | recorded 27 October 1922 (Jupiter only) at Petty France Studios; acoustic recording[1] |
1923 | Holst | London Symphony Orchestra | Columbia | recorded 23 August (Mercury, Venus), 24 August (Uranus), 30 October (Mars, Saturn), 6 November (Neptune) at Petty France Studios; acoustic recording[1] |
1925 | Holst | London Symphony Orchestra | Columbia | recorded 19 February (Saturn), 15 September (Jupiter) at Petty France Studios; acoustic recording[1] |
1926 | Holst | Women of the London Symphony Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra | Columbia | recorded complete on 22 June, 2 July, 14 Sept. and 22 Oct. at Petty France Studios; electrical recording; released in Dec. 1926[1]; re-issued on LP in 1972, on CD from 1991 onwards[2] |
1926 | Albert Coates | Symphony Orchestra | HMV | only Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus; reissued on CD in 1992 on Koch Historic |
1942 | Ernest MacMillan | Toronto Symphony Orchestra | RCA Victor | only Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter; released on CD in 2006 by Analekta, on Portrait: Sir Ernest MacMillan |
1943 | Leopold Stokowski | NBC Symphony Orchestra | Cala Records | from an NBC radio broadcast in Studio 8H, New York City, the earliest American performance on disc |
1945 | Adrian Boult | BBC Symphony Orchestra | HMV | the first of Boult's five recordings of the work |
1954 | Boult | Members of the London Philharmonic Choir; Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra | Nixa | orchestra was the London Philharmonic under a pseudonym for contractual reasons |
1954 | Malcolm Sargent | Chorus of Female Voices; London Symphony Orchestra | Decca | Kingsway Hall; engineer Kenneth Wilkinson |
1956 | Stokowski | Women's Voices of the Roger Wagner Chorale; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Capitol | the work's first stereo recording; issued on LP; reissued on CD by EMI |
1958 | Sargent | BBC Women's Chorus; BBC Symphony Orchestra | HMV | reissued on CD on Classics for Pleasure |
1959 | Boult | Vienna Academy Chorus; Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Whitehall 20033 |
1961 | Herbert von Karajan | Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Decca | remastered and reissued in 2007 in 24-bit, 96-kbps sound |
1965 | Sargent | BBC Symphony Orchestra | IMP | Royal Festival Hall, London, February 3, 1965; issued on IMP CD in 1995 |
1966 | Boult | unnamed chorus; New Philharmonia Orchestra | HMV |
1970 | Bernard Haitink | John Alldis Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra | Philips |
1970 | Bernard Herrmann | London Philharmonic Chorus; London Philharmonic Orchestra | Decca Phase 4 Stereo |
1970 | William Steinberg | New England Conservatory Chorus; Boston Symphony Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon | recorded in Symphony Hall, Boston, in September and October 1970 |
1971 | Leonard Bernstein | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Columbia | recorded in Philharmonic Hall in early December 1971; released on LP in 1973; reissued on CD in 1985 and 1997; music was subject of Bernstein's final Young People's Concerts broadcast in March 1972 |
1971 | Zubin Mehta | Female Voices of the Los Angeles Master Chorale; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Decca |
1973 | André Previn | London Symphony Orchestra | EMI | recorded Sept. 28-29, 1973, in Kingsway Hall, London; engineer Christopher Parker |
1974 | George Hurst | Bournemouth Municipal Choir; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | Contour | recorded at Southampton Guildhall; producer Brian Culverhouse, engineer Brian Couzens |
1974 | Walter Susskind | Ronald Arnatt Chorale and Missouri Singers; Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | Turnabout and VOX | recorded in Powell Hall in Sept. 1974; issued in 1975; reissued in 2004 by MFSL as a hybrid multichannel SACD |
1975 | James Loughran | Hallé Orchestra | CfP/EMI | won a Gold Disc; in Dec. 2009 came 8th in BBC's Top 30 Most Played classical recordings over three-quarters of a century |
1975 | Eugene Ormandy | Philadelphia Orchestra | RCA Red Seal | reissued in 1993 |
1978 | Boult | Geoffrey Mitchell Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra | EMI | recorded 60 years after the same conductor led the work's premiere; on May 12 and 30, June 4 and July 31, 1978, in Kingsway Hall and at Abbey Road; released for Boult's 90th birthday |
1978 | Neville Marriner | Concertgebouw Orchestra | Philips |
1978 | Georg Solti | Ladies of the London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra | Decca | Kingsway Hall, Feb. 1978 |
1979 | Alexander Gibson | Scottish National Orchestra | Chandos | recorded in Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, 2-3 July 1979 |
1979 | Seiji Ozawa | New England Conservatory Chorus; Boston Symphony Orchestra | Philips | recorded in Dec. 1979; reissued in 1992, 2005 and 2010 |
1980 | Lorin Maazel | Maîtrise de Radio France; Orchestre National de France | CBS Masterworks | uses a children's choir; digital recording; released in 1981 |
1980 | Simon Rattle | Ambrosian Singers; Philharmonia Orchestra | EMI | digital recording; Kingsway Hall, London, 29-30 Dec. 1980 |
1981 | Karajan | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon | recorded in the Philharmonie, Berlin, in Jan. 1981; digital recording |
1986 | Andrew Davis | Toronto Symphony Orchestra | HMV | recorded in The Centre in The Square, Kitchener, Ontario, on 20 Jan. 1986 |
1986 | Previn | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Telarc Digital | Watford Town Hall, London, 14-15 April 1986 |
1986 | John Williams | Boston Pops Orchestra | Philips | Boston Symphony Hall |
1986 | Charles Dutoit | Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Decca / Penguin Classics | recorded by Decca; reissued in 1998 by Penguin Classics; used for a multi-disciplinary (skating, ballet/dance, music) version[3]; awarded the 1987 Gramophone Award for Engineering |
1987 | Eduardo Mata | Dallas Symphony Orchestra | Proarte |
1987 | Charles Groves | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Sanctuary Classics | recorded in July 1987 in Watford Town Hall |
1987 | Richard Hickox | London Symphony Orchestra | IMP Classics | recorded in Abbey Road Studio 1 on 8-9 July 1987 |
1987 | Geoffrey Simon | London Symphony Orchestra | Delta Entertainment | recorded at All Saints, Tooting; reissued in 1998 |
1988 | William Boughton | Philharmonia Orchestra | Nimbus | recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London, 11-12 Jan. 1988 |
1988 | Adrian Leaper | Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra | Naxos | recorded 26-30 Nov. 1988 in Bratislava; released in 1989, including Holst's Suite de Ballet, Op. 10 |
1988 | Charles Mackerras | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Virgin Classics | recorded in Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, in June 1988; released on CD 1989 |
1989 | James Levine | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon | released in 1991 |
1989 | Hilary Davan Wetton | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Collins Classics |
1989 | Colin Davis | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Philips |
1990 | Mehta | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Teldec |
1991 | James Judd | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Denon | recorded in Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London, on 1-2 Dec. 1991; released on CD 1992 |
1992 | Ross Pople | London Festival Orchestra | ASV |
1992 | Yevgeny Svetlanov | Philharmonia Orchestra | Collins Classics | reissued 1995 by Edgestone Classics (EC029); Svetlanov website indicates another recording by him with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra |
1993 | Vernon Handley | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Tring | recorded Oct. 1993; released 1994 |
1993 | A. Davis | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Teldec | recorded at St Augustine's Church, London, in Dec. 1993 |
1994 | José Serebrier | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | ASV |
1994 | John Eliot Gardiner | Philharmonia Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon | released in 1995 |
1995 | Adrian Leaper | Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria | Arte Nova Classics | live recording 25 January 1995 in the Teatro Pérez Galdós, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
1996 | Leonard Slatkin | Philharmonia Orchestra | BMG Classics | released in 1997 on CD |
1996 | Yan Pascal Tortelier | BBC Philharmonic | BBC Music Magazine | recorded July 13, 1996, in Bridgewater Hall, Manchester |
1997 | Roy Goodman | New Queens Hall Orchestra | Carlton Classics |
1997 | Yoel Levi | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Telarc Digital | recorded at Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, April 3-4, 1997 |
1998 | Andrew Litton | Dallas Symphony Orchestra | Delos |
1998 | Djong Victorin Yu | Philharmonia Orchestra | Exton / Octavia Records Inc. |
2001 | David Lloyd-Jones | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Naxos | recorded February 17-18, 2001, in Glasgow; released in 2002 on CD; issued also on DVD in 5.1 surround sound (Dolby+DTS); includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews as well as Holst's The Mystic Trumpeter |
2001 | Mark Elder | Hallé Orchestra | Hyperion | recorded in Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on 27-28 March 2001; includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews (commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society and first performed by the Hallé under Kent Nagano in 2000); also includes the original and modified-ending versions of Neptune |
2002 | Dennis Russell Davies | Bruckner Orchester Linz | Chesky Records | recorded October 2-4, 2001, in the Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria; released on SACD in 2002 and later as a digital download on Chesky's HDtracks site |
2002 | Roger Norrington | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Hänssler | live recording made in the Liederhalle, Stuttgart, 27-29 June 2001 |
2002 | Paul Freeman | Czech National Symphony Orchestra | CNSO | recorded in the Rudolfinum, Prague, 2002; includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews[4] |
2003 | Handley | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | RPO | released in 2004 |
2003 | C. Davis | London Symphony Orchestra | LSO Live | live recording for the orchestra's own label in 2003 |
2004 | Owain Arwel Hughes | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Warner Classics | recorded 26-27 April 2004 at Watford Colosseum; released on CD 2005; includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews |
2005 | Yutaka Sado | NHK Symphony Orchestra | Avex |
2005 | Rico Saccani | Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra | BPO Live |
2006 | Rattle | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | EMI | includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews |
2009 | Paavo Järvi | Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | Telarc |
2009 | Vladimir Jurowski | London Philharmonic Orchestra | LPO | recorded live in the Royal Festival Hall on 22 May 2009; released on CD in 2010 |
2011 | A. Davis | BBC Philharmonic | Chandos |
2012 | Previn | London Symphony Orchestra | Cobra Entertainment LLC |
2015 | Michael Francis | NYO Canada | NYO Canada | recorded 1-3 Aug. 2015 in the McGill Multimedia Room, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal[5] |
2016 | Edward Gardner | National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain | Chandos | recorded 8-9 Aug. 2016 in Symphony Hall, Birmingham; released on CD in Feb. 2017[6] |
Skidmore College Orchestra | Musopen | Jupiter (8:28): Mars (8:18): |
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1. ^1 2 3 Stuart, Philip. The LSO Discography. 2009. Available at CHARM website, accessed 28 March 2013.
2. ^All the music from The Planets conducted by the composer, including alternate takes and original couplings, was issued together for the first time in 2014: Sanders, A. Review of Explore Multimedia ExM008. Classical Recordings Quarterly. Autumn 2014, No 78, p59-60.
3. ^The Planets (Multi-disciplinary) version only reference was found here: [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00004RRKO at Amazon]
4. ^Available at CNSO website, accessed 4 July 2018.
5. ^Available at NYO Canada website, accessed 8 August 2018.
6. ^[https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%205179 Available at Chandos website], accessed 9 June 2017.
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