The Planets - VII. Neptune, the Mystic - Gustav Holst

Some guy walked out during the last measures. And what's with the camera editor showing the conductor at the very end? Why not the whole orchestra in the silence? Moronic.

I'd love to play in this group. They'd of course never permit me to bring my horn, but perhaps I could sit quietly and turn someone's pages.

I just learned through Tom Scott's Lateral that the choir is (probably) in an other room, and that the fade out is achieved by slowly closing the door.

I chew a wine gum to prevent coughing works great!

Sirens…

The original composer’s notes for this said the chorus must be in an adjoining room, the door of which should be open until the last bar of the piece, when it’s to be slowly, silently closed to mute them, but if a room or door isn’t available, Holst genuinely suggested the choir either “slowly turn away from the audience or stuff a handkerchief in their mouths”. In his mind, there’s no such thing as “singing quieter” 😂😂😂😂

I have never been as affected by a single piece of music as this movement, as the ending makes me think of death but also the infinity of the universe.
I would believe that many a musician that has played this in concert has been equally affected.

Every movie about Holst's Neptun is ending the same way. Fade away from the orchestra. Boring

one of the best uses of two chords I can think of

Let's being someone in that coughs on the night we're going to record it

she ate so hard omg

This movement is so eerie and mysterious (in a good way). The harp parts in some of the tenser, more dramatic sections make it feel like someone’s plucking at my bones.

Love this piece. Does anybody know any similar pieces like this by other composers? It feels like time is stopping…

Mysterious

This one guy coughing along with the music

Any other band nerds here that want to learn this???

The fade out ending was great. APART FROM THAT ONE ANNOYING PERSON WHO DECIDED "YOU KNOW WHAT I'M GONNA COUGH AND RUIN THE VIBES :D"

wow

The silence she holds at the end is absolute perfection...

And the silence at the end ❤

Omg when the Ladie's Chorus comes in...❤❤❤

Haunting. This is my favorite selection of The Planets.

Ethereal. Simply one of the best, clearest, most informative recordings ever heard or seen of Neptune, and now am going back to revisit the other Planets in this BBC Prom performance. Superbly played and recorded, this is a modern classic version.

i turned my volume all the way up for that ending,




the applause nearly knocked me out of my seat.

holding a cough is hard,
holding a baton and conducting an orchestra in front of hundreds of people is harder.
don't cough in orchestras,
at least just cough during uranus or mars.

In HG Well's novel The Time Machine, the time traveller escapes the Morlocks and races into the future. He blacks out, but when he awakes and stops the time machine, the world he sees is a dying one. The sun, a dull purple, no longer shines on a green and pleasant land. A dark sea surrounds a dull sandy shoreline, no trees or any signs of life other than a few grotesque creatures flopping in the sand. It is the end of earth, her final death throes, the sun gradually fading to a nothingness. This music is perfect for the end of our earth.

such an incredible ending to one of the greatest works of all time.

Wonderful, transformative, a journey through space...

Where are the singers located in the hall?

The whole suite from the adrenaline filled dark angry Mars, to the very royal sounding Jupiter to the absolutely superb and out of this world finale of Neptune is an amazing performance. Mars draws you in and keeps you firmly in your place lusting after more and then at the end of Neptune you are left hanging wanting more… and more…

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Mr Robot

The coughing 😭

I'm only here for replay at five minutes fourty five

I was listening to abc classic fm and i thought i heard a gustaf song the planets and then 4 days later it actually was this song

dang can everyone stop coughing so damn much

i think this piece kinda inspires harry potter's music

Bernard Herrmanns Twilight Zone theme

Not a single shot of the choir! WTF!!!! Or worse still, it was prerecorded! OMFG! Why not hide the orchestra from the audience and MAKE IT REALLY MYSTICAL?!

Siren's Voices

Where is the choir??

Gustav Holst(1874-1934) is my Favourite composer for Symphony Orchestra. Amazing music!

Not Only Is The Planets about the planets themselves and astrology but Gustav Holst also wrote this suite with the idea of life from the beginning of a huge moment till the end of a chapter with the Choir ending Neptune as you pass on to the next life.

I love how they put a bust of the composer on display at the RAH.