The latest release on the Hallé's own label brings together two groundbreaking 20th-century choral works. Holst's Hymn of Jesus draws on gnostic literature to redefine Christianity in terms of ...

I am afraid the Bishop of Hulme has misunderstood the meaning of the hymn I Vow to Thee My Country (Leader, August 13). He appears to think that it enjoins people not to ask questions and follow ...

Today, millions are hearing an ancient 3,000-year-old text within a 100-year-old classical work, from the biggest pop stars of today. Here’s what happened... Classical composer Gustav Holst has ...

There aren't so many recordings of Gustav Holst's songs that a collection like this, first released in the English song series on the now defunct Collins Classics label, could be allowed to languish ...

You might recognise the patriotic British hymn ‘I Vow to Thee My Country’ from Remembrance services and various high-profile, national occasions – but who wrote it, and what are the lyrics? Written in ...

A Swede conducting an all-male Indian choir; music composed by an Englishman on the Rig Veda - a concert cannot get more global than this. Singing the Sanskrit hymns weren't difficult for Olsson.

Ave Maria Gustav Holst, Composer Purcell Singers Imogen Holst, Conductor (12) Welsh Folk Songs, Movements: The Dove Gustav Holst, Composer Purcell Singers Imogen Holst, Conductor (12) Welsh Folk Songs ...

“East is East and West is West.” Rudyard Kipling’s grimly dogmatic line was certainly true in music, for centuries. Classical music was Western through and through, its grammar too tightly organised ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Drawing on texts from the Apocrypha, The Hymn of Jesus is less a Christian meditation, more a mystical experience.

Cynara Frederick Delius, Composer Mark Elder, Conductor Hallé Orchestra Roderick Williams, Baritone There can be few more raptly compassionate statements in all music than Delius’s 1903 04 Whitman ...