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Symphony No. 3, Op. 42
I. Allegro Vivo
II. Adagio
III. Vivace
IV. Allegro Con Spirito
Le Festin De L'Araignée, Op. 17 • The Spider's Feast (Complete Ballet)
Prélude
A Garden. Sitting In Her Web, A Spider Surveys The Surroundings.
Entry Of The Ants. - They Find A Rose Petal. - With Great Effort They Lift The Petal And Carry It Away.
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.
Entry Of The Dung Beetles.
The Ants Return. - They Prepare To Carry Another Petal, When A Buttefly Appears.
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.
The Spider Rejoices. - She Frees The Butterfly From Her Web And Takes It To Her Larder.
The Spider Dances. - Suddenly Fruits Come Crashing Down From A Tree. - The Spider Jumps Backwards.
Fruit Worms Enter And Prepare To Revel In The Fallen Fruit.
Warlike Entry Of The 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.
The Ants Dance In A Circle. - The Two Mantises Blame Each Other For The Trick Which Was Played Upon Them.
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.
A Mayfly Hatches.
He Dances.
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.
The Mayfly And The Fruit Worms Dance.
The Mayfly Dies.
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.
Death Throes Of The Spider
Funeral Of The Mayfly. - The Funeral Cortege Sets Off And Vanishes Into The Distance.
Night Falls On The Deserted Garden.

notes

Recordings: Paris, Théâtre Mogador, March 2005 (Live) (Symphony No. 3), Conservatoire de Paris, July 2005 (Le Festin de L'Araignée)

credits

Booklet Editor – Jean-Christophe Hausmann
Composed By – Albert Roussel
Conductor – Christoph Eschenbach
Design [Cover], Layout – Eduardo Nestor Gomez
Engineer [Assistant] – Laurent Cazenave, Perrine Ganjean
Engineer [Balance] – Jean-Christophe Messonier (tracks: 5 to 26), Mitsou Carré (tracks: 1 to 4)
Executive-Producer – Kevin Kleinmann, Reijo Kiilunen
Liner Notes – Damien Top
Orchestra – Orchestre De Paris
Producer – Mitsou Carré

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Ondine Inc.
Recorded At – Théâtre Mogador
Recorded At – CNSMDP

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