Symphony no. 3 / Le Festin de l'araignée

Albert Roussel; Orchestre de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach · 2008 · Album

Tracklist

  1. Symphony no. 3, op. 42: I. Allegro vivo
  2. Symphony no. 3, op. 42: II. Adagio
  3. Symphony no. 3, op. 42: III. Vivace
  4. Symphony no. 3, op. 42: IV. Allegro con spirito
  5. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Prélude
  6. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: A garden. Sitting in her web, a spider surveys the surroundings.
  7. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Entry of the ants. – They find a rose petal. With great effort they lift the petal and carry it away.
  8. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Left alone, the spider daydreams and watches the landscape. – She checks the strength of her thread. She mends her web with the thread she has drawn from her pocket.
  9. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Entry of the dung beetles.
  10. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The ants return. They prepare to carry another petal, when a butterfly appears.
  11. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Dance of the butterfly. – The spider invites the butterfly to dance closer to her web. – The butterfly is caught in the web and struggles. Death of the butterfly.
  12. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The spider rejoices. She frees the butterfly from her web and takes it to her larder.
  13. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The spider dances. Suddenly fruits come crashing down from a tree. The spider jumps backwards.
  14. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Fruit worms enter and prepare to revel in the fallen fruits.
  15. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Warlike entry of two praying mantises who lift their frightening blades and forbid anyone to approach. The two worms approach and, moving between the mantises, quickly penetrate the fruits.
  16. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The ants dance in a circle. The two mantises blame each other for the trick which was played upon them.
  17. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The mantises challenge each other to a duel. – They fight. – The spider dances in order to make the mantises more excited. – The mantises become caught in the web. The spider dances.
  18. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: A mayfly hatches.
  19. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: He dances.
  20. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The mayfly stops, exhausted. – The ants, the spider and finally the dung beetles pay their respects. – The mayfly rejects their advances. – The ants leave. The worms come out of the fruit.
  21. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The mayfly and the fruit worms dance.
  22. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The mayfly dies.
  23. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The spider prepares to begin her feast, but one of the mantises, freed by the dung beetles from the web, slips behind the spider and kills her.
  24. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Death throes of the spider.
  25. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Funeral of the mayfly. The funeral cortege sets off and vanishes into the distance.
  26. Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Night falls on the deserted garden.