Mark Ravenhill’s reimagining of the duo’s work on Gloriana exposes imbalances in the partnership but ultimately is a tragedy of thwarted ambition

10 February 1973: Rick Wakeman’s album The Six Wives of Henry VIII expresses all the merits and limitations of a new musical genre

Unique performance with help of children is intended to get people thinking about the work afresh

Savitri was given a rare outing in a concert that framed Holst’s Indian opera with works by Grace Williams and Britten, and closed with a boundary-crossing fusion that Holst would have relished

Holst’s Planets suite is reimagined with the benefit of today’s scientific knowledge in a dizzying and smartly staged show

Maria Marchant (piano)
(Somm)

In her new book, Music for Life, the Observer’s classical music critic selects 100 works to last a lifetime

From the archive, 11 October 1920: Manchester Guardian music critic Samuel Langford reviews Holst conducting the Planets at Birmingham Town Hall

The Guardian, 5 September 1960: Like her father, Gustav, Imogen Holst has many talents

It's not the symphony that makes the big impression here, but Holst's assured setting of a Whitman poem, writes Andrew Clements

To judge from these works, all very impressively played, Holst's style took some years to settle down completely, writes Andrew Clements

In this Holst survey The Planets are well represented but there seems to be no place for his great opera Savitri, writes Andrew Clements