Albert Roussel Spider's Banquet

[sdtom]

Working on a review of this ballet/pantomine written in 1912. The recording I have is the Naxos 8.572243 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Stephane Deneve. Are there any other recordings of note? The beginning is certainly influenced by Debussy.
Tom

[alberto]

There are few recordings of the complete ballet/pantomime.
I treasure Ansermet and SRO from 1954. I have since  decades a LP reissue in Decca Ace of Clubs Series.I don't know if it was ever transferred to Cd (I have never seen it).
I treasure also a second version (complete) by Jean Martinon and ORTF Orch. (1971, reissued on Warner "Ultima" series).
The "Symphonic fragments" have been recorded much more frequently.
I own:
-A 1928 Roussel himself conducting (Philips CD, obviously primitive sound).
-A Toscanini-NBC live from 1946 (bad sound).
-Cluytens and Paris Conservatoire (reissued on Cd EMI, early '60s).
-Pretre on Emi from the '80s (reissued on Cd).
-Markevich and Lamoureux Orch. (Dg, Lp, '60).
-Smetacek and Prague Sym. (Supraphon Lp, '60s)
-Serge Baudo and a French Paris Orchestra recorded under the anonymous name "Cento Soli" (Musidisc Lp label, very easy to find in French mega-stores in'60-'70).
-Pascal Verrot - Quebec Orchestra, Cd Analekta - 1993.
I would rate important the two complete versions and the first five of the fragments (but also Smetacek and Baudo are good).
I would say that Roussel has been rather underrated in the near past and that the Deneve-Naxos series has been very useful (and of very good quality).
BTW, Maestro Deneve came to Torino once (last year) and luckily conducted the complete Bacchus and Ariane.

[alberto]

By mistake I have listed the Markevich. That is indeed a 1960 recording of the second suite from Bacchus et Ariane. (My memory sometimes falters, as I have it both as Lp and as Cd).

[Latvian]

Many excellent performances, Alberto, especially Martinon.

I also highly recommend Michael Swierczeski and the Gulbenkian Orchestra, on a French Ades CD.