The Guardian

Roussel: The Spider's Banquet; Suites from Padmâvatî – review

Having already recorded the four symphonies and the ballet Bacchus et Ariane, Stéphane Denève and the RSNO end their survey of Roussel's orchestral music with what is perhaps his most regularly ...
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In French opera ‘Padmavati’, sweetness, dread, and lots of sighing and twirling

“If my words could express my thoughts, they would be sweeter than the song of the nightingale,” sings Sultan Alauddin Khilji to Rana Ratan Sen. The words are in French, and they belong to Albert ...
Indiatimes

9 years ago, another ‘Padmavati’ got a standing ovation

KOLKATA: Nine years back, danseuse Tanusree Shankar had choreographed a French opera titled ‘Padmavati’ that was directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali on an invitation from Jean-Luc Choplin, the ...
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RSNO/Deneve: Roussel - Le Festin De L'Araignee/Padmavati (Naxos)

So here we are. With the fifth and final CD release in Naxos's survey of Albert Roussel's orchestral music, the RSNO and Stephane Deneve reach the end of a chapter. It's not quite the finale: Deneve ...
The Guardian

Roussel: The Spider's Banquet, Padmâvatî suites – review

One of the great colourists of the 20th-century French school, Albert Roussel (1869-1937) was thought old-fashioned because he followed in the path of Debussy and Ravel. But as can be heard from this ...