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Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter

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Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter

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2h 17m

2011

Synopsis

The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, and allied himself during the First World War with a ‘red priest' who pinned on the door of his church "prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression". He hated the words used to his most famous tune "I Vow to Thee My Country" because it was the opposite of what he believed, and died before the age of 60 - broken and disillusioned.

Director

Tony Palmer

DocumentaryMusic

classical music

Cast & Crew

Imogen Holst

as Self (archive footage)

Gustav Holst

Gustav Holst

as Self (archive footage)

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