ID: 1567
The Morning of the Year: A Choral Ballet.
HOLST, Gustav

Category: Music

Place/Publisher/Date:
Oxford University Press. [No date].

Description: First edition; 4to; original brown paper covers. Inscribed on the title page "Arnold Goldsbrough from Gustav Holst May 1927." Together with a post card signed by Holst to Goldsborough. The Morning of the Year was the first score commissioned by the BBC. Holst conceived of the work as a kind of masque on the English rites of spring, with singers, dancers, and instrumentalists. The text concerns nature's recurring rebirth. The English organist, harpsichordist, and conductor, Goldsbrough, founded his own orchestra in London, with which he devoted himself to the performance of early music. In 1960 the orchestra became the English Chamber Orchestra. Fine, a little marking to the covers.

Price £750.00 ()