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English composer Gustav Holst (1874?1934) is universally loved for his popular orchestral suite The Planets, but much of his other estimable orchestral music is seldom heard. This CD offers a sampling of the very best "beyond The Planets." Ross Pople studied at the Paris Conservatory and, at age twenty-six, was invited by Sir Colin Davis and Pierre Boulez to be principal cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the youngest ever in the history of the orchestra. In 1980 he founded the London Festival Orchestra, whose numerous recordings for Hyperion and ASV have attracted positive reviews, and he has been seen often on the BBC. The repertoire of the London Festival Orchestra embraces the very widest range ? from the eclectic and contemporary to the classical and baroque, from Boccherini and Bach to Tippett and Tavener. The excellence of the LFO?s playing is reflected in the outstanding reviews its recordings have universally received.