Holst: Beni Mora / Somerset Rhapsody / Hammersmith / Heath: Invocation for Cello and Orchestra
There is much more to Holst thanThe Planets, and the music gathered on this  excellently played and recorded disc gives you some of his very best orchestral music at a budget  price. If you're aPlanetsfan, then the next logical piece to try isBeni Mora, a  luscious Oriental rhapsody in three movements that reveals the same interest in rhythm and  orchestral color that characterizes it's more famous astrological big brother. Holst consideredEgdon Heath(a symphonic poem after Thomas Hardy) to be his best piece, and it's  certainly one of his most evocative--a study in bleakness and silence very much like Debussy'sNuages(Clouds) from theNocturnes. In short, there's a lot of fine music to  discover here, and at the price it's a low risk investment.--David Hurwitz