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

• Paul Dukas (1865 - 1935):
• 1 Polyeucte Overture 14:23
• Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937): Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19:
• 2 Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: I. Prélude. Un jardin 04:29
• 3 Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: II. Entrée des fourmis 03:10
• 4 Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: IIIa. Entrée des bousiers 01:02
• 5 Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: IIIb. Danse du papillon 04:14
• 6 Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: IV. Danse de l'araignée 01:52
• 7 Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: V. Entrée des vers de fruit 00:50
• 8 Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: VI. Entrée guerrière de deux mantes religieuses 02:19
• 9 Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: VII. Danse de l'araignée 00:33
• 10 Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: VIII. Eclosion de l'éphémère 01:47
• 11 Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: IX. Danse de l'éphémère 05:43
• 12 Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: X. Danse de l'éphémère et des vers de fruit 02:04
• 13 Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: XI. Agonie de l'araignée 01:39
• 14 Le festin de l'araignée, Op. 17, L. 19: XII. Funérailles de l'éphémère 02:58
• Paul Dukas:
• 15 L'apprenti sorcier 11:48
• Total Runtime 58:51

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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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