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>Just one other note.  Naxos has now joined the bandwagon in offering the
>Holst Planets with "Pluto" added by Colin Matthews.  Only speaking for
>myself, I don't think much of this maneuver.  Can't modern composers come
>up with their own orignial works and refrain from adulterating works which
>already exist? ...

To be fair to Colin Matthews, I think it is the case that he was
commissioned to write 'Pluto'; if I remember correctly by Kent Nagano
for the Halle Orchestra.

Paul Silverthorne