This Blu-ray is a collaboration of music and science that could only have come out of Houston, Texas, the home of NASA and space exploration.
Filmmaker Dr Duncan Copp has created a spectacular visual companion piece for Holst’s musical score featuring new high definition NASA images which will be projected onto a 24ft screen as the score is performed by the Houston Symphony orchestra under Music Director Hans Graf.
To celebrate this production and the currently sold out US tour re:fine authored and replicated the Blu-ray & DVD presentation which features actual images and video footage of our solar system shot from a variety of unmanned planetary probes as well as the Hubble telescope.
re:fine created the print and packaging graphics after extensive consultation with both Duncan Copp and Houston Symphony.
Both the Blu-ray and the DVD are double disc sets, with the Blu-ray boasting PCM stereo & DTS-HD MAster Audio 5.1. The second disc features an interview with Hans Graf as well as a tour of the planets with NASA planetary scientists.
Many of the images have never been seen before by the public and would have been unimaginable 100 years ago when the score was written. One wonders how Holst would have reacted to seeing actual images of the worlds that he could only view from afar.