Thanks to all who wrote in private and to the list with information.
First I'll try to find the Boult version.  It sounds very appealing.

Deryk Barker wrote:

>Hmm, if I'd paid you to be my straight-person you couldn't have done it
>better.

We aim to please.

>I thoroughly recommend the version on Naxos, on the disc conducted by
>David Lloyd-Jones (and not, as I thought, Paul Daniels).

Well, who could resist Naxos, too? While I'm looking for the Boult it will
while away the minutes.

>Holst himself considered EH his finest work.  It's inspired by Thomas
>Hardy's Return of the Native (or one particular passage) and Holst
>dedicated the work to hardy.

That's why I wanted to hear it.  I started reading the Hardy and remembered
that name!

Mimi