The Perfect Fool by Gustav Holst

Recorded by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland on 4th August 1997 in the City Hall in Glasgow.

Conductor: Bramwell Tovey
Producer: Andrew Keener

Gustav Holst. Opera in one act. 1922. The Wizard summons a ballet of Spirits of Earth, Fire and Water, introducing a ballet that aims at a parody of Wagner's Parsifal. A mother successfully marries her son, the Fool of the title, to a princess, by taking a magic potion that the Wizard had proposed to use himself. The Fool is too weak and uninterested to take advantage of the situation offered him.

The three parts featured are:

Dance of Spirits of Earth
Dance of Spirits of Water
Dance of Spirits of Fire