Today, millions are hearing an ancient 3,000-year-old text within a 100-year-old classical work, from the biggest pop stars of today. Here’s what happened... Classical composer Gustav Holst has ...

As well as creating some of the 20th century's most rousing classical compositions, Gustav Holst was also a influential figure in creating an 'orgy of song' in the Essex village of Thaxted. Gustav ...

Some composers are fated to be known by just one piece. Gustav Holst is one. His Planets suite is one of the great orchestral hits, endlessly pillaged for film and advertising soundtracks. And yet The ...

You are in: Essex > History > Local History > Holst's village of song Holst made Thaxted his second home As well as creating some of the 20th century's most rousing classical compositions, Gustav ...

You might recognise the patriotic British hymn ‘I Vow to Thee My Country’ from Remembrance services and various high-profile, national occasions – but who wrote it, and what are the lyrics? Written in ...

A Swede conducting an all-male Indian choir; music composed by an Englishman on the Rig Veda - a concert cannot get more global than this. Singing the Sanskrit hymns weren't difficult for Olsson.

It is a peculiar coincidence that Gustav Holst completed the first sketch of Mars, the Bringer of War—his most bellicose piece of music—just before WWI began. Like his good friend Ralph Vaughan ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Drawing on texts from the Apocrypha, The Hymn of Jesus is less a Christian meditation, more a mystical experience.

Some composers are fated to be known by just one piece. Gustav Holst is one. His Planets suite is one of the great orchestral hits, endlessly pillaged for film and advertising soundtracks. And yet The ...