Any Audiophile recording of The Planets?

RWD: I agree with you, the Previn is the performance of this music I keep coming back to, and I far prefer it to Mehta, Boult or Susskind. I've not heard the Dutoit.

Jeffreybehr: the Previn is multi-miked, as were all the "two Christophers" recordings. And while I vastly prefer the early Decca engineering, I find the Previn such a superior performance that I'll tolerate the multi-miking, which in any event I don't find nearly as severe you describe. Some of the late recordings of Solti/CSO by J. Kenneth Wilkinson for Decca were far more eggregiously multi-miked (and Wilkie is one of my heroes). In any event, the capture of instrumental timbre and inner detail on the Previn EMI recording is superb.
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Are you guys referring to the HMV's mono version of Boult's The Planets?

Jsujo, Boult made quite a few recordings of Planets. In the stereo era, he recorded this for EMI in 1966 and again in 1978. The one referenced by Jeffreybehr is the 1978 recording, Boult's last recording of this work.
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I read a review in Stereophile recently claiming the best version in sound and performance quality to be the Von Karajan 61 edition on DG.

My first choice (I've got several versions) is the one by Charles Dutoit conducting the Montreal Symphony Orchestra on Decca/London. An excellent performance and superb sound (recorded in St. Eustache by the great John Dunkerley). Trust me, you won't go wrong with this one.