 While the music of Holst's Indian verse settings remained generally western in character, in some of the vedic settings he experimented with Indian "raga" (scales).The chamber opera "Savitri" (1908) is written for three solo voices, a small hidden female chorus, and an instrumental combination of two flutes, a cor anglais and a double string quartet.The music critic John Warrack comments on the "extraordinary expressive subtlety" with which Holst deploys the sparse forces