Symphony no. 3 / Le Festin de l'araignée

Album by Albert Roussel & Orchestre de Paris & Christoph Eschenbach

First released: February 2008

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 3, op. 42: I. Allegro vivo
    6:04
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 3, op. 42: II. Adagio
    10:19
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 3, op. 42: III. Vivace
    3:22
  4. 4.
    Symphony no. 3, op. 42: IV. Allegro con spirito
    6:30
  5. 5.
    Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Prélude
    3:55
  6. 6.
    Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: A garden. Sitting in her web, a spider surveys the surroundings.
    0:50
  7. 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. 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. 9.
    Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Entry of the dung beetles.
    0:50
  10. 10.
    Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The ants return. They prepare to carry another petal, when a butterfly appears.
    0:15
  11. 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. 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. 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. 14.
    Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Fruit worms enter and prepare to revel in the fallen fruits.
    0:58
  15. 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. 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. 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. 18.
    Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: A mayfly hatches.
    1:41
  19. 19.
    Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: He dances.
    3:23
  20. 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. 21.
    Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The mayfly and the fruit worms dance.
    1:39
  22. 22.
    Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: The mayfly dies.
    0:32
  23. 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. 24.
    Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Death throes of the spider.
    1:19
  25. 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. 26.
    Le Festin de l'araignée, op. 17: Night falls on the deserted garden.
    1:19

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