Symphony no. 3 / Le Festin de l'araignée

Albert Roussel; Orchestre de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach

Type	Album
Released	February 2008
Label	Ondine
Genre	Classical
Style	Modern

Tracks

26 tracks, 1 hr 2 min
#	Title	Duration
1	Symphony no. 3, op. 42: I. Allegro vivo	6:04
2	Symphony no. 3, op. 42: II. Adagio	10:19
3	Symphony no. 3, op. 42: III. Vivace	3:22
4	Symphony no. 3, op. 42: IV. Allegro con spirito	6:30
5	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Prélude	3:55
6	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: A garden. Sitting in her web, a spider surveys the surroundings.	0:50
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.	1:28
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.	1:41
9	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Entry of the dung beetles.	0:50
10	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The ants return. They prepare to carry another petal, when a butterfly appears.	0:15
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.	3:16
12	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The spider rejoices. She frees the butterfly from her web and takes it to her larder.	3:37
13	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The spider dances. Suddenly fruits come crashing down from a tree. The spider jumps backwards.	1:49
14	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Fruit worms enter and prepare to revel in the fallen fruits.	0:58
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.	0:45
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.	0:34
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.	1:41
18	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: A mayfly hatches.	1:41
19	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: He dances.	3:23
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.	2:08
21	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The mayfly and the fruit worms dance.	1:39
22	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The mayfly dies.	0:32
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.	0:39
24	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Death throes of the spider.	1:19
25	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Funeral of the mayfly. The funeral cortege sets off and vanishes into the distance.	1:55
26	Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Night falls on the deserted garden.	1:19

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