Any Audiophile recording of The Planets?


I have Holst/The Planets by DG (Karajan) very good music but not so good sound (early digital recording) Any suggestion for the best sound of The Planets ?
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Buy the Boult/LPO on EMI--I've heard dozens, and it's my fave. EVERYTHING is JUST right. Previn's is crude and idiosyncratic IMO, and Previn's is the one BAD recording that the two Christophers--Bishop and Parker--ever did. It's highly multi-mono-miced and knob-twiddled. I just bought my 3rd copy of Boult's--EMI CD #7243 5 67749 2 6. Mid-price, too. Boult's soundstage is about 50' deep and 100' wide on my system. The percussion instruments do NOT jump around the way they do in Previn's--in Boult's they're always WAY back there. It's just glorious.
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