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Albert Roussel: Promenade Sentimentale, Complete Piano Music / Emanuele Torquati, piano

2 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-08-28

Works: Albert Roussel: Des heures passent, suite for piano, Op. 1; Résurrection, symphonic prelude for orchestra, Op. 4 ("Symphonic Poem after Tolstoy"); Rustiques, suite for piano, Op. 5; Petit canon ...
Performers: Torquati, Emanuele

Poised at the aft edge of the Romantic era and inculcated to a varied set of influences, French composer Albert Roussel was ideally placed to...continue...
Recording information: Teatro Comunale F. Marchetti, Camerino, Italy (01/23/2012-01/25/2012)....continue...

Albert Roussel: The Spider's Banquet; Padmavati, suite / Royal Scottish Nat'l Orch.

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-01-31

Works: Albert Roussel: Le Festin de l'araignée, ballet, Op. 17; Padmâvatî - Opera-Ballet in Two Acts
Conductors: Denève, Stéphane
Ensemble: ; Royal Scottish National Orchestra

One of Roussel's most performed orchestral works, The Spider's Web was composed during his earlier impressionistic period, and depicts the beauty and violence of insect...continue...
Recording information: Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, UK (10/04/2010-10/05/2010)....continue...

Roussel: Le festin de l'araignee; Suite in F, Op. 33; Bizet: Symphony in C

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2011-12-13

Works: Georges Bizet: Symphony in C major; Albert Roussel: Le Festin de l'araignée, ballet, Op. 17; Suite for orchestra in F major, Op. 33; Petite suite, for orchestra, Op. 39; Camille Saint-Saëns...
Conductors: Munch, Charles
Ensemble: ; Concertgebouw Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Paris Conservatory Orchestra

The Composers Conduct

2 CD / Widescreen / 2010-11-05

Works: Maurice Ravel: Boléro; Concerto for Piano in G major; Albert Roussel: Le Festin de l'araignée, ballet, Op. 17; Le jardin mouillé, for voice & piano, Op. 3/3; Invocation, for mezzo-so...
Performers: Croiza, Claire; Long, Marguerite; Roussel, Albert
Conductors: Ravel, Maurice; Roussel, Albert; Schmitt, Florent; Elgar, Edward, Sir

Roussel: Symphonies 3 & 4

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-02-23

Works: Albert Roussel: Symphony no 3 in G minor, Op. 42; Symphony no 4 in A major, Op. 53; Sinfonietta for strings, Op. 52; Concerto for piano & orchestra in G major, Op. 36; Bacchus et Ariane, ballet, Op. ...
Performers: Laval, Danielle; Tessier, Georges
Conductors: Cluytens, André; Jacquillat, Jean-Pierre; Prêtre, Georges; Plasson, Michel

Albert Roussel (1869-1937) was a French composer who spent seven years in the French Navy, only turning to music at the age of 25. He...continue...

Roussel: Symphonie No. 2; Festin de L'Araignée

1 CD / Erato Import / 2007-10-23

Works: Albert Roussel: Symphony no 2 in B flat major, Op. 23; Le Festin de l'araignée, ballet, Op. 17

Roussel: Symphony no 3, Le festin de l'araignée / Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris

1 CD / Ondine / 2004-01-31

Works: Albert Roussel: Symphony no 3 in G minor, Op. 42; Le Festin de l'araignée, ballet, Op. 17
Conductors: Eschenbach, Christoph
Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris

This Albert Roussel disc couples two of the composer’s most popular pieces, which are given authentic performances by the compatriot Orchestre de Paris under music...continue...

Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, etc / Tortelier, BBC Phil

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1996-07-23

Works: Albert Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, ballet, Op. 43; Le Festin de l'araignée, ballet, Op. 17
Conductors: Tortelier, Yan Pascal
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

"...a Gallic lucidity...a captivating lightness of touch; and when it comes to quiet passages one could not ask for greater tenderness...It is a score full...continue...