Dukas: Polyeucte Overture & L'apprenti sorcier - Roussel: Le festin de l'araignée Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire & Pascal Rophé

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Album-Release:
2019

HRA-Release:
06.12.2019

Label: BIS

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

Artist: Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire & Pascal Rophé

Composer: Paul Dukas (1865-1935), Albert Roussel (1869-1937)

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  • Paul Dukas (1865 - 1935):
  • 1Polyeucte Overture14:23
  • Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937): Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19:
  • 2Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: I. Prélude. Un jardin04:29
  • 3Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: II. Entrée des fourmis03:10
  • 4Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: IIIa. Entrée des bousiers01:02
  • 5Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: IIIb. Danse du papillon04:14
  • 6Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: IV. Danse de l'araignée01:52
  • 7Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: V. Entrée des vers de fruit00:50
  • 8Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: VI. Entrée guerrière de deux mantes religieuses02:19
  • 9Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: VII. Danse de l'araignée00:33
  • 10Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: VIII. Eclosion de l'éphémère01:47
  • 11Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: IX. Danse de l'éphémère05:43
  • 12Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: X. Danse de l'éphémère et des vers de fruit02:04
  • 13Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: XI. Agonie de l'araignée01:39
  • 14Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: XII. Funérailles de l'éphémère02:58
  • Paul Dukas:
  • 15L'apprenti sorcier11:48
  • Total Runtime58:51

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Under its music director Pascal Rophé, l’Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire (ONPL) here performs two great orchestral spectaculars of French music – scintillating and imaginative scores composed only 15 years apart. A perennial favorite, Paul Dukas’ symphonic poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1897) became a ‘hit’ with the general public after being included in the soundtrack of the Disney animation film Fantasia in 1940. In the work, based on a ballad by Goethe, Dukas displayed an extraordinary command of the large late-Romantic orchestra as he depicted the disastrous consequences when a young apprentice tries to work the magic charms of his master. In 1912, when Albert Roussel composed his ballet score The Spider’s Feast, he was rather influenced by Impressionism, but his use of the orchestra was no less inventive than Dukas. The plot of the ballet is played out in a garden where a spider is trapping various insects in its net looking forward to having a sumptuous meal. Roussel’s sophisticated use of timbres and his characteristic rhythmic pointillism conjures a micro-drama which also features a mayfly, a team of ants and a rather terrifying pair of praying mantises. The album opens with another piece by Dukas: Polyeucte, a concert overture inspired by a 17th century play and a work of a surprising expressive power.

Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire
Pascal Rophé, conductor

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