2016 marks 100 years since Holst completed his awe-inspiring space odyssey - The Planets. From menacing Mars to Jupiter’s memorable, bold melody (‘I Vow To Thee My Country’), The Planets remains one of the foremost achievements in 20th-century music composition and a firm concert audience favourite.

Holst’s extra-terrestrial score calls for a vast orchestra that includes an organ, two sets of timpani, an array of percussion with a wordless ethereal choir.

Colin Matthews’s Pluto and Holst’s A Somerset Rhapsody complete the recording.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is re-issuing this superb 2004 recording, which has never been widely released, with brand new artwork to coincide with its hugely popular performances of The Planets around the UK’s premier concert-halls.