Classical Music: Double Play: Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane;Le festin de l'araignee BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9494)

The Independent - London | August 9, 1996| | Copyright

So this is how Roussel's Bacchus et Ariane begins. I don't believe I've ever heard the complete ballet before. I don't believe I've had the opportunity (this must be the first complete recording in at least 25 years). The Suite, yes, the Act 2 highlights, culminating as they do in Roussel's answer to the climactic Bacchanale from Ravel's Daphnis. Sweatier and brawnier than Ravel, mind, a more primary, a more blatant, a more overtly sensual dreamscape of ancient Greece. A mythological Riverdance springs to mind as Theseus and Ariadne and friends burst into the opening scene, their escape from ...

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