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Title: Classical fan or not, you'll love it
Review: This was the first classical CD I ever purchased, as a starry-eyed 16-year-old wanna be astronaut more enamored with the space-scene cover and the CD's title than having any particular knowledge of its contents. I got lucky. I've been buying classical ever since.But even a person with no particular fondness for classical will love this music. The sheer, raw, intense energy of Mars, the Elgarian styled central theme of Jupiter (think "Pomp & Circumstance", the graduation march, only a lot better). But best of all are the more mystic pieces: Venus, Neptune, Uranus. Whenever as a teenager my mind was not at ease I would listen to Venus and be calmed....OK, I'm getting campy here. But just to reassure you - I was NEVER a "Star Trek" fan.One last word: while the Previn recording is awesome, I've heard that Adrian Boult's recording with the London Philharmonic is by far the best. Buy that one if you can. If not this one will serve quite well.
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