Holst / Kansas City Symphony / Stern Planets / Perfect Fool Super-Audio CD

Reference Recordings proudly presents Holst's best known and beloved works in an outstanding interpretation from Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony. This release was recorded in the beautiful and acoustically acclaimed Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. It was produced by David Frost, six-time winner of the Classical Producer of the Year GRAMMY½ award. It was recorded by RR's engineering team, comprised of GRAMMY½ winning engineer and Technical Director Keith O. Johnson, and multi-GRAMMY½ nominated engineer Sean Martin. This is the seventh in Reference Recordings' series with Kansas City Symphony. Previous albums are "Shakespeare's Tempest"; the Grammy½ Award-winning "Britten's Orchestra"; an Elgar/Vaughan Williams project; "Miraculous Metamorphoses"; an all-Saint-Sa?ns album featuring the magnificent Organ Symphony, and the music of contemporary American composer Adam Schoenberg (nominated for two Grammy½ Awards).

1. I. Mars, the Bringer of War 2. II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace 3. III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger 4. IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity 5. V. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age 6. VI. Uranus, the Magician 7. VII. Neptune, the Mystic 8. The Perfect Fool, Op. 39