Isao Tomita - The Planets (1997)

In 1916, Gustav Holst, a composer of music and self-admitted mystic, wrote a brilliant orchestral suite entitled "The Planets." Sixty years later, internationally renowned keyboard artist and composer Isao Tomita created a highly popular electronic version of the Holst suite. Now, award-winning director Don Barrett has chosen "The Tomita Planets" for the soundtrack of this musical video grand tour of the Solar System. Using actual outer space photography returned to Earth by the Mariner, Viking, Voyager, Pioneer, Magellan and Galileo spacecrafts, combined with supercomputer animation, scientific accuracy throughout the planetary segments co-exists with artistic license within transitional material to create a magnificent marriage of sight and sound, art and science.