In classifying Holst's The Golden Goose and The Morning of the Year, file them under choral ballets because that's how Holst described them. And why not? Like the works by Morley and Weelkes upon which they are based, The Golden Goose and The Morning of the Year were written to be sung and danced. But since neither choral ballet had been performed or recorded in decades, no one's heard Holst's Golden Goose in a long, long time. Thankfully, in this terrific recording of the works by Hilary Dawn Wetton conducting the Guilford ...
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In classifying Holst's The Golden Goose and The Morning of the Year, file them under choral ballets because that's how Holst described them. And why not? Like the works by Morley and Weelkes upon which they are based, The Golden Goose and The Morning of the Year were written to be sung and danced. But since neither choral ballet had been performed or recorded in decades, no one's heard Holst's Golden Goose in a long, long time. Thankfully, in this terrific recording of the works by Hilary Dawn Wetton conducting the Guilford Choral Society and the Philharmonic Orchestra, one can do The Golden Goose more. Wetton and the Guilford recorded a handful of discs for Hyperion dedicated to the lesser known but better composed choral works of Holst and Vaughan Williams, and they've all been just as terrific as this one. But even the least well known of those works was a veritable Planets in popularity compared with The Golden Goose and The Morning of the Year. But as they have before, Wetton and the Guilford...
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Add this copy of Holst: Morning of the Year / Golden Goose / King to cart. $14.94, like new condition, Sold by GoPeachy rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from JACKSONVILLE, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Hyperion (UK).
