Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Perfect fool) ; BBC Symphony Orchestra (Beni Mora, Planets) ; BBC Women's Chorus (Neptune from The Planets) ; Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor
Spine title: The planets etc.
The perfect fool, ballet music comprises excerpts from the opera.
Recorded in No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, 3 Jan, 1961 (Perfect fool); Kingsway Hall, London, 29 Aug 1956 (Beni Mora) and 12 Aug and 2, 3 Sept, 1957 (Planets).
The ballet from The perfect fool, op. 39 -- Beni Mora, Oriental suite, op. 29 no. 1 -- The planets, suite op. 32 (Mars, the bringer of war -- Venus, the bringer of peace --Mercury, the winged messenger -- Jupiter, the bringer of jollity -- Saturn, the bringer of old age -- Uranus, the magician -- Neptune, the mystic (with the BBC Women's Chorus - wordless chorus))