🎉 Happy Birthday, Gustav Holst! His iconic suite 'The Planets' still thrills audiences over a century later - starting with the thunderous Mars, recorded in 2012 with Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen. 🚀 Love The Planets? Don’t miss Marin Alsop conducting Star Wars and The Planets on Sun 8 Feb 2026, as part of our 80th birthday season. 🎟️ Book now: philharmonia.co.uk/whats-on/marin-alsop-conducts-star-wars-and-the-planets #Holst #ThePlanets #MarinAlsop #ClassicalMusic #FilmMusic | Philharm

57K views · 2K reactions | ‘The Planets’, performed on the same piano Gustav Holst composed the suite on 100 years ago. Watch John and Fiona York play 'Jupiter' on the Broadwood grand piano at St Paul’s Girls’ School in West London. Find out more about this incredible work and instrument at https://clssicfm.co/2q8Ef7R | Classic FM | Facebook

46K views · 1.2K reactions | John and Fiona York (AKA YORK2) perform a four-hand piano transcription of a Classic FM Hall of Fame favourite: Venus, from Gustav Holst’s ‘The Planets’. It’s played on the very Broadwood grand piano the work was composed on. If you have a favourite, transporting piece of classical music, we want you to vote for it now. The Classic FM Hall of Fame 2021 | Vote now  clssicfm.co/HOF21 | Classic FM | Facebook