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Title: Not as good as Chicago/Levine's...
Review: While this recording may be a step up from Boult or Bernstein and is probably the most well-known recording of these works, I think it is completely outshined by the recording of Holst's "Planets" by the Chicago SO under James Levine, which is available on the Deutsche Grammophone label. Jupiter, Mercury, and Mars are my personal favorites, and the CSO renders vivid portraits of those works.A comment on the Penguin Music Classics series: I own ten PMC CDs, and I think that they have largely made excellent choices as to the recordings selected for packaging in this series. I particularly like the Schubert Symphonies 5 & 9 (Vienna/Kertesz) and the Rachmaninov Piano Concerti 3 & 4 (Ashkenazy/London/Previn).
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