We need more professors and scientists to do this kind of shows. Just amazing.

Outstanding! Spectacular performance! and display of beauty! Thanks to Prof. Brian Cox it was even better. Bravo!

00:00 - BBC presentation
02:20 - Mars introduction
08:32 - "Mars, the Bringer of War"
15:49 - Venus introduction
20:16 - "Venus, the Bringer of Peace"
28:33 - Mercury introduction
32:00 - "Mercury, the Winged Messenger"
36:10 - Jupiter introduction
42:05 - "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity"
49:48 - Saturn introduction
55:23 - "Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age"
1:04:03 - Uranus introduction
1:07:11 - "Uranus, the Magician"
1:12:45 - Neptune introduction
1:18:05 - "Neptune, the Mystic"
1:26:40 - End credits

Neptune is so haunting and mystical, I can imagine the little lonely Voyager on its journey past this beautiful blue jewel on its way out to an eternity of nothingness.

Music and astronomy together is humanity greatest accomplishment. Thank you Holst. Brian and musicians great job doing this for everyone to enjoy. Amazing experience.

As a musician I find this fascinating beyond anything else I've experienced. The music is all power and mystery and the stories Brian tells makes this absolutely out of this world. Wow! 👏

This presentation is absolutely phenomenal.   I love Dr. Cox and try to listen to him all the time, but now, I love Holst

When Brian started quoting Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot', my entire spinal column (including the vertrebra that's a bit dodgy) erupted into goosebumps. When I saw the rings of Saturn through my birdwatching telescope for the first time several years ago, I felt weirdly 'trippy' with all the awe, incredulity and wonder that coursed through my body and mind. When I saw the Aurora Borealis for the first time last year, I was nearly moved to tears. When I watched Sagan's 'Cosmos' on DVD for the first time a few years back, I rushed outside after Episode 1 just to spend 5 minutes under the stars, looking at the constellations. Seeing Neil deGrasse Tyson present the 'sequel' to Cosmos, I knew I wanted to learn more about science and astronomy.

My brain wasn't ready to learn this at school, since undiagnosed autism hampered my attempts to understand and get the best out of academia and understand where my talents and strengths were. Now my brain has had the longer time it needed to mature, learning later in life has been SO enriching and SO stimulating, I love it. I love science, and I love each and every science communicator like Brian Cox, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan and Maggie Aderin-Pocock for enthusing me to keep looking up, and keep learning more.

This is my second night of enjoying this exquisite performance and the insightful commentary by Brian Cox.  As I sit here on this warm desert night, out my window is this June's super moon.  With the clear desert sky this moon looks enormous. It is traveling low on the horizon so I will see it out my window most of the night.  What a treat tonight has been... Holst, a full super moon, and this wonderful performance.

I’ve spent years chasing answers in documentaries, podcasts, even ancient texts—and none of it hit me the way The Obscured Principles book by Dorian Caine did. It’s like it was written for the few who are ready to break the illusion and remember who they really are.

Mars 8:31
Venus 20:16
Mercury 31:58
Jupiter 42:04
Saturn 55:21
Uranus 1:07:08
Neptune 1:18:04

I love the BBC series ‘The Planets’ done in 1999, it uses much of his music as well.

Thank you for bringing the two passions I love, together in such a spectacular way!! Well done to all who contributed....
You never disappoint Brian.....

If this doesn’t give you chills, check your pulse.

This is pure gold.  "The Planets" is my favourite classical music!

Love Holst The Planets since I first heard it in the 90s, phenomenal.

It seems to me that Holst's Planets were far advanced of their time... So modern that they fit in well with (or even better than) anything we have in the classical field today!

"Having survived the barbarism of the 20th century..."...we bear witness to the barbarism of the 21st. May peaceful cooperation prevail in the spirit of Holst's Venus.

Play it with whatever emotion you want, the opening of ‘Mars’ still presents strength, might and destruction.

Makes me think of this: "Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea. You don't have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things... science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated." Tim Minchin