Gustav Holst and Thaxted - Part 2. Historian Sybil King on composer Gustav Holst who once lived and worked in Thaxted.

Gustav Holst's The Planets is one of the best-known pieces of classical music written by a British composer. How strange, then, that we know so little of the composer's other music – or, for ...

Donald MacLeod looks at Gustav Holst's relationship with the village of Thaxted and we hear about what was probably the first performance of Saturn (from The Planets Suite). It took place during a ...

Thaxted sings Thaxted The people of Thaxted came out in their hundreds to celebrate St. George's Day by singing Gustav Holst's rousing 'I vow to thee my Country'.

He died on 25 May 1934, but his legacy lives on through his notable works, which include The Planets and, subsequently, Thaxted - the piece composed for Jupiter - to which the words of I Vow to ...

Holst’s political awareness, as Mr Palmer’s film shows, did not really take off until he rented a weekend house at Thaxted, one of the most beautiful villages in north Essex.

On the 80th anniversary of Gustav Holst's death, Peter Holmes visits the composers former Essex home, where he lived in Thaxted between 1917 and 1925. He also had connections with Thaxted Church ...

On the 80th anniversary of Gustav Holst's death, historian Sybil King speaks to Peter Holmes about the composer who was inspired to begin writing The Planets and I Vow To Thee My Country whilst ...

He died on 25 May 1934, but his legacy lives on through his notable works, which include The Planets and, subsequently, Thaxted - the piece composed for Jupiter - to which the words of I Vow to ...

A student from Brazil who is studying Gustav Holst says visiting his birthplace will allow him to "be close" to the famous composer. Bruno Lima has been raising money for a trip to Holst's ...