Gustav Holst was a British composer best known for his orchestral suite ‘The Planets’. A suite is a group of individual pieces. There are seven pieces in 'The Planets' and 'Mars, the Bringer ...

You can also listen live on Radio 3 ... it was a coincidence that Holst finished sketching the first movement, ‘Mars, the Bringer of War’, just before the First World War broke out.

KATIE MELUA:'Holst thought that music would be the perfect way to show these different moods.' KATIE MELUA:'He started off with Mars, a planet which was named after the Roman god of war.' ...