Uranus: The Magician | The Planets (Holst) | Behind the Score Ep. 59
Added 2024-10-15 22:51:25 +0000 UTCWe're continuing on in our exploration of The Planets by Gustav Holst. This time, it's movement 6, Uranus (The Magician). This is a bombastic and harmonically slippery movement with loads of color. I hope you enjoy!
Comments
Interesting listening to this I can hear Holst referring back to Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique and then here where Williams gets lots of inspiration from too. :D Cool.
John Sawyer
2024-10-25 08:06:48 +0000 UTCThanks Bill!
R. Douglas Helvering
2024-10-18 13:03:23 +0000 UTCTwo words: Air timpani! Thank you, Doug. As always, though my musical knowledge is rudimentary, I came away knowing much more than I did before. You're the best!
Bill Brinkmoeller
2024-10-18 07:15:59 +0000 UTCThanks so much!
R. Douglas Helvering
2024-10-16 21:22:42 +0000 UTCMagical! I love these BTS episodes about the Planets, and this is a great one. So much detail to see, and so much to reflect upon. I hope you feel better Doug, I think I may have some mind fog and you battled through it! I will not ever hear this piece the same way as I heard it before!
Adie
2024-10-16 21:16:02 +0000 UTCRodney, if you take one octave (12 notes) then the amount of possible unique combinations is 12^12 ( >8 trillion). And that’s only one octave, just the combinations, no rythm, no duration, no volume changes: the possibilities are endless.
Frits van Voorst
2024-10-16 12:32:56 +0000 UTCSome People say that there is no true new music because all notes, all chords, all melodies, all Rhythms have all been invented before. I don't believe that at all. With an open mind, Music as a aural language is just getting started as an art form which can communicate ideas across the planet. We've only begun it's journey among us humankind. We have yet to explore. Music Is Not Dead. It's only a baby.
Rodney Griffin
2024-10-16 00:22:56 +0000 UTCNeptune is Sublime....
Rodney Griffin
2024-10-16 00:09:03 +0000 UTCLovely! Thanks Doug.
Jim Reeves
2024-10-15 23:40:39 +0000 UTCYes!
Robert Thornton
2024-10-15 22:56:45 +0000 UTC
