🎉 Happy Birthday, Gustav Holst! His iconic suite 'The Planets' still thrills audiences over a century later - starting with the thunderous Mars, recorded in 2012 with Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen. 🚀 Love The Planets? Don’t miss Marin Alsop conducting Star Wars and The Planets on Sun 8 Feb 2026, as part of our 80th birthday season. 🎟️ Book now: philharmonia.co.uk/whats-on/marin-alsop-conducts-star-wars-and-the-planets #Holst #ThePlanets #MarinAlsop #ClassicalMusic #FilmMusic | Philharm

1.8K views · 44 reactions | From the New World to New Worlds – on 6th September Simon Johnson performs Holst’s The Planets alongside imagery from NASA Goddard in the spectacular finale of our American concert series. Here’s a sneak peak of the introduction from Astronaut Ricky Arnold on the Space Station. | St Paul's Cathedral | Facebook

46K views · 1.2K reactions | John and Fiona York (AKA YORK2) perform a four-hand piano transcription of a Classic FM Hall of Fame favourite: Venus, from Gustav Holst’s ‘The Planets’. It’s played on the very Broadwood grand piano the work was composed on. If you have a favourite, transporting piece of classical music, we want you to vote for it now. The Classic FM Hall of Fame 2021 | Vote now  clssicfm.co/HOF21 | Classic FM | Facebook