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The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates the 50th birthday of the Highmark Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Fairmount Park, with Marin Alsop serving up a surprise in Ravel's Boléro.

Kahchun Wong returns to The Hallé for Holst and Unsuk Chin, with a postscript from Colin Matthews

The guest conductor pairs Holst's perennial crowd pleaser with Poulenc's Gloria, a work deeply associated with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The Planets gets the star treatment from Gardner and the LPO, while Beatrice Rana brings disarming delicacy to Rachmaninov.

Matters cosmic and earthly intersect in Slatkin's latest visit to the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Thomas Adès serves up an astronomical programme, pairing his Piano Concerto and Paradiso with Holst’s crowd favourite, The Planets.

Gustav Holst's perennial audience favorite provides pure comfort food, paired here with Ravel and an organ rarity by Alfredo Casella.

The National Youth Orchestra of Germany end their UK tour in Edinburgh with playing of Technicolor brilliance and fearless confidence. 

John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a high-octane performance of Holst's The Planets.

In an evening pairing two English classics, Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symhony Orchestra in Elgar’s Violin Concerto and an out-of-this-world account of Holst’s The Planets. 

John Wilson brings the best out of both Holst's music and the players of the RSNO, though Alice Coote fails to hit the heights in Elgar's Sea Pictures. 

The National Symphony Orchestra play a miniature by short-lived French composer Lili Boulanger and the European premiere of Joe Chindamo's trombone concerto. 

The New York Philharmonic's first presentation of Julia Perry's Stabat Mater draws attention to an undeservedly forgotten score.

Geneva Lewis embraces the lyricism in Grace Williams’ Violin Concerto, with a rousing overture from Dora Pejačević and a robust Planets Suite from Jaime Martín and BBC NOW.

Thomas Adès takes the audience in Rome into paradise, or the ascension into Dante's heavens, as his Paradiso makes its first appearance in Italy in a programme dedicated to the celestial world. 

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth were heaven-storming in Prom 33, offering celestial visions from Strauss and Holst.

Soloists Leonidas Kavakos and Antoine Tamestit brought elegance and gravitas to Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, while Adès led a thoughtful performance of his own Shanty – Over the Sea.

The Bridgewater Hall's cycle of Vaughan Williams' symphonies continues with a gripping performance of the Ninth, coupled with a colourful account of Holst's The Planets. 

Exhilarating Adams and insightful The Planets from the BSO and Karabits, with a Proms debut from Nemanja Radulović in Barber with great presence and warmth.

Three contrasting 20th-century masterworks were judiciously crafted and insightfully honed by the Orchestre Symphonique of Montreal and their music director Kent Nagano.

This was astonishing and gripping vocalism from a true master of Berlioz style.

Kantorow had his work cut out for him, playing masses of cluster chords and arpeggios up and down the keyboard.

Marking the centenary of the end of the First World War, Anna Meredith and 59 Productions' work proves a powerful, often surprisingly upbeat, commission.

A fine Planets from Eiji Oue and the Belgrade Philharmonic crowned a splendid concert despite a flawed “Neptune” after Simone Rubino had explored the music of the Earth.

The Planets and Sinfonia antartica could be the Cav and Pag of British music.

A striking performance of The Planets had people humming their favourite bits on their way out of the hall, but the real winner was Vaughan Williams’ neglected valedictory symphony.

With expert assistance from Dennis Russell Davies, the overlooked Brno Philharmonic makes the most of a contemporary cantata.

A concert programme that includes both Holst and Vaughan Williams is as right as strawberries and cream at Wimbledon. 

A disappointing extract from Smetana's Má vlast was redeemed by a refreshingly clear performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto and a characterful account of Holst's The Planets.

Benjamin Northey and Andrea Lam team up with the MSO for a festive evening of Vaughan Williams, Chopin and Holst.

Charles Dutoit, who recently turned 80, brought energy and engagement to a vigorous and stimulating program of works by British composers.

The space-themed Prom 29 matches old favourites with new works in joyous performances.

Simone Young conducts the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in a high octane performance of Holst The Planets and Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra presented a space-themed concert in an exciting evening’s programme of many well-known pieces rolled into a couple of hours.

Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Basel Symphony Orchestra in idiosyncratic Les Six, and portentous Holst, while Alice Sara Ott provides exuberant Ravel. 

Martyn Brabbins and the Rotterdam Philharmonic took the audience on a journey through our solar system in The Planets: An HD Odyssey.

Exquisite Boulez and Francesconi from Mälkki and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, before the conductor pushed the ensemble to its limits in The Planets.

Grand Holst and the première of Mark Bowden's A Violence of Gifts, performed with bombastic gusto and colour.

Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in a concert to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Manchester Grammar School, with Holst's Planets alongisde O'Regan's Celestial Map of the Sky.

Mark-Anthony Turnage's Passchendaele, his WWI-themed piece, received its UK première this evening, in a concert given by the CBSO Youth Orchestra. 

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra offered a rich performance of works by Holst, Shostakovich, Grieg and Marquez. Conductor Robert Moody brought out the lyrical side of the orchestra, even if its members were nearly over-shadowed by an over-enthusiastic soloist.

Bold choices married with family favourites for Proms Plus Family concert, but programming was not always matched by expression.

Infectious fun from the BBC Philharmonic, as Mancunian trained composers McCabe and Birtwistle received a warm welcome at Bridgewater Hall, and Holst's ever popular Planets triumphed. 

Rarely does one see five grand pianos in one room, let alone on one stage. Enter the 5 Browns, a classical piano quintet. Siblings and Juilliard graduates – they were the first family to be enrolled at the Juilliard School simultaneously – it is clear this family has talent. Performing individually and together, this young ensemble has a vivacious and affable approach to classical music.

The adjective in the title of Britten’s 1934 Simple Symphony could refer to the ease with which listeners can spot each movement’s two contrasting themes. Attentive, lively use of tempo, dynamics, phrasing, colour enabled Peter Oundjian and the RSNO to make the most of young Britten’s diversity within impressive compositional unity.

Gustav Holst certainly wouldn’t be classed by anyone in the “one-hit wonder” brigade, but it is quite rare to find his name appearing on concert programmes next to anything but those two words: The Planets.

A summer season concert at the Blossom Music Center would not be the normal place for The Cleveland Orchestra to give first performances, but through a coincidental oddity of programming, there were two orchestra premières: Samuel Barber’s 1945 Cello Concerto, Op.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra brought their HD Odyssey to a packed Bridgewater Hall, giving an audiovisual feast of John Adams, Richard Strauss and Gustav Holst alongside impressive footage of the Earth and space.The format was quite straightforward, with films playing on a large screen above the stage whilst the orchestra worked their way through the rich sound palettes of the programme.