Townhall.com: Michael Medved: Giving the Gift of Music -- at Shockingly Low Cost

Townhall.com: Michael Medved: Giving the Gift of Music -- at Shockingly Low Cost

Medved finds a gem in a jewel case on the bargain shelf: "Gustav Holst: Orchestral Music", by the London Festival Orchestra, from Arte Nova recordings: "This new album provides some rarely heard arrangements of such earthy, ancient material 'Six Morris Dance Tunes,' 'Seven Scottish Airs' and, most unforgettably, the haunting and spiritual 'In the Bleak Midwinter' (appropriate for late December, indeed). There's also the spirited romp for strings 'St. Paul's Suite' (written for the girls school at which Holst taught), the 'Brook Green Suite,' and the precious, jewel-like, deeply affecting 'Lyric Movement for Viola and Small Orchestra' - 11 minutes of ethereal, yearning meditation I had never heard before."