This is a discography of The Planets, Op. 32, an orchestral suite by Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916, and first performed by the Queen's Hall Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult on 29 September 1918. It includes the composer's own two recordings made in 1925 and 1926.
| Year | Conductor | Orchestra | Label | Recording notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Gustav Holst | London Symphony Orchestra | Columbia | Acoustic recording, replaced by an electrically-recorded version (next item) also on Columbia 78s. |
| 1926 | Gustav Holst | London Symphony Orchestra | HMV | Released on CD in 2003 in the UK and 2006 in the USA |
| 1926 | Albert Coates | Symphony Orchestra | HMV | Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus only. Released on CD in 1992 on Koch Historic. |
| 1942 | Sir Ernest MacMillan | Toronto Symphony Orchestra | RCA Victor | Never officially released on CD by Sony; however was released on CD by Analekta in 2006 on "Portrait: Sir Ernest MacMillan." Only four movements were recorded (Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter). |
| 1945 | Sir Adrian Boult | BBC Symphony Orchestra | HMV | The first of Boult's five recordings of the work |
| 1954 | Sir Adrian Boult | Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra | Nixa | The orchestra was the London Philharmonic Orchestra recording pseudonymously for contractual reasons |
| 1954 | Sir Malcolm Sargent | London Symphony Orchestra | Decca | |
| 1956 | Leopold Stokowski | Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Capitol | The work's first stereo recording, originally issued as an LP and reissued on CD by EMI. Stokowski had previously conducted The Planets with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1943. Issued on Cala Records, this live NBC broadcast is the earliest complete non-British performance on disc. |
| 1958 | Sir Malcolm Sargent | BBC Symphony Orchestra | HMV | Reissued on CD on the EMI Classics for Pleasure label. |
| 1960 | Sir Adrian Boult | Vienna State Opera Orchestra | Whitehall | |
| 1961 | Herbert von Karajan | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Decca | Reissued in 2007 in a 24-bit, 96kbps remastered edition. |
| 1967 | Sir Adrian Boult | New Philharmonia Orchestra | HMV | |
| 1970 | Bernard Herrmann | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Decca | Released on Phase 4 Stereo in 1970 |
| 1970 | William Steinberg | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon | reissued in 2001 |
| 1971 | Leonard Bernstein | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | CBS | Released on LP in 1973 and reissued on CD in 1985 and 1997. Bernstein's final Young People's Concerts broadcast featured this work. |
| 1971 | Zubin Mehta | Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Decca | |
| 1971 | Bernard Haitink | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Philips | |
| 1973 | André Previn | London Symphony Orchestra | EMI | |
| 1974 | George Hurst | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | Contour | |
| 1975 | James Loughran | Hallé Orchestra | CfP/EMI | This recording won a Gold Disc for EMI and came eighth in the top 30 most played classical recordings over the past three quarters of a century on the BBC (December 2009). |
| 1975 | Walter Susskind | Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | VOX | reissued in 2004 by MFSL as a hybrid multichannel SACD. |
| 1975 | Eugene Ormandy | Philadelphia Orchestra | RCA | rereleased in 1993 |
| 1976 | Isao Tomita | RCA | (Free arrangement and abridgement for electronic synthesiser) released in 1976/1991 | |
| 1978 | Sir Adrian Boult | London Philharmonic Orchestra | EMI | May-July 1978 and released for Boult's 90th birthday |
| 1978 | Neville Marriner | Concertgebouw Orchestra | Philips | |
| 1979 | Sir Georg Solti | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Decca | |
| 1980 | Lorin Maazel | Orchestre National de France | CBS Records | Released in 1981. Notable for the use of a children's choir in Neptune. |
| 1981 | Herbert von Karajan | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon | |
| 1981 | Simon Rattle | Philharmonia Orchestra | EMI | |
| 1984 | Alexander Gibson | Scottish National Orchestra | Chandos | |
| 1985 | Kevin Peek with Rick Wakeman and Jeff Wayne | (Prog Rock version called Beyond the Planets) | ||
| 1986 | Andrew Davis | Toronto Symphony Orchestra | HMV | |
| 1986 | André Previn | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Telarc Digital | Recorded in Watford Town Hall, London on April 14 & 15, 1986 |
| 1986 | John Williams | Boston Pops Orchestra | Philips | Boston Symphony Hall |
| 1986 | William Boughton | Philharmonia Orchestra | Nimbus | |
| 1986 | Charles Dutoit | Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Decca / Penguin Classics | recording by Decca and reissued in 1998 by Penguin Classics. Later used for a multi-disciplinary (Skating, Ballet/Dance, music) vision.[1] This recording was awarded the 1987 Gramophone Award for Engineering[1] . |
| 1987 | Eduardo Mata | Dallas Symphony Orchestra | Proarte | |
| 1987 | Sir Charles Groves | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Sanctuary Classics | Recorded in July, 1987 at Watford Town Hall. |
| 1987 | Richard Hickox | London Symphony Orchestra | IMP Classics | Recorded at EMI Studios, Abbey Road, July 8th & 9th 1987 |
| 1988 | Adrian Leaper | Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra | Naxos | Recorded from 26th to 30th November, 1988 in Bratislava and released in 1989. Includes "Suite de Ballet, op 10" by Holst. |
| 1989 | James Levine | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon | released in 1991 |
| 1989 | Eric Banks | London Symphonic Wind Orchestra | EMI Music Japan | recorded at Abbey Road Studios on 11-12 April 1989 Wind orchestra version of the complete seven-movement suite transcribed by Cy Payne |
| 1989 | Sir Colin Davis | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Philips | |
| 1990 | Zubin Mehta | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Teldec | |
| 1991 | Geoffrey Simon | London Symphony Orchestra | Delta Entertainment | reissued in 1998 |
| 1992 | Ross Pople | London Festival Orchestra | ASV | |
| 1992 | Evgeny Svetlanov | Philharmonia Orchestra | Collins Classics | reissued 1995 by Edgestone Classics (EC029). The Svetlanov website indicates another recording by him with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra |
| 1993 | James Judd | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Denon | |
| 1993 | Vernon Handley | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Tring | Recorded October 1993, released 1994 |
| 1994 | Jose Serebrier | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | ASV | |
| 1994 | John Eliot Gardiner | Philharmonia Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon | released in 1995 |
| 1996 | Leonard Slatkin | Philharmonia Orchestra | BMG Classics | released in 1997 on CD |
| 1996 | Yan Pascal Tortelier | BBC Philharmonic | BBC Music Magazine | Recorded July 13, 1996 in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester |
| 1996 | James Watson | Black Dyke Mills Band | Doyen | Concert-band version |
| 1997 | Roy Goodman | New Queens Hall Orchestra | Carlton Classics | |
| 1998 | Yoel Levi | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Telarc Digital | |
| 1998 | Len Vorster, Robert Chamberlain | Naxos | Two piano transcription | |
| 2000 | Anthony Goldstone, Caroline Clemmow | Olympia | Two piano transcription | |
| 2001 | David Lloyd-Jones | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Naxos | Recorded February 17 and 18, 2001 in Glasgow and released in 2002 on CD and 5.1 surround sound (Dolby+DTS) DVD. Includes "Pluto, the Renewer" by Colin Matthews and "The Mystic Trumpeter" by Holst. |
| 2001 | Mark Elder | Hallé Orchestra | Hyperion | Recorded 27-28 March, 2001 in Manchester. Includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews, commissioned by the Hallé Concerts Society and first performed by the Hallé under Kent Nagano on 11 May 2000. This recording also includes both the original and modified ending versions of Neptune. |
| 2001 | John York, Fiona York | Black Box | One piano, four hands transcription. Reissued 2011 on Nimbus Records. | |
| 2002 | Sir Roger Norrington | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Hanssler | Live recording, Liederhalle, Stuttgart, 27, 28 and 29 June 2001 |
| 2003 | Vernon Handley | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | RPO | released in 2004. |
| 2003 | Sir Colin Davis | London Symphony Orchestra | LSO Live | live recording for the orchestra's own label in 2003. |
| 2004 | Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Susan Bradshaw | Delos | Two piano transcription | |
| 2005 | Andrew Litton | Dallas Symphony Orchestra | Delos | |
| 2005 | Yutaka Sado | NHK Symphony Orchestra | Avex | |
| 2005 | Rico Saccani | Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra | BPO Live | |
| 2005 | Owain Arwel Hughes | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Warner Classics | Includes Pluto, The Renewer by Colin Matthews |
| 2006 | Sir Simon Rattle | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | EMI | Includes Pluto, the Renewer by Colin Matthews (see 2001 Mark Elder recording, above) |
| 2009 | Hugh Banton | Fie | Organ transcription | |
| 2009 | Paavo Jarvi | Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | Telarc | |
| 2010 | Vladimir Jurowski | London Philharmonic Orchestra | LPO | |
| 2010 | Buzz Ensemble | Fidelio | Version for brass and organ | |
| 2010 | Stefan Moser | H and M | Version for organ | |
| 2011 | Sir Andrew Davis | BBC Philharmonic | Chandos |