Camille Saint-Saëns - Le Rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 (1871)

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886).

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Le Rouet d'Omphale (1871)

Orchestre ORTF conducted by Jean Martinon

Le Rouet d'Omphale is part of four symphonic poems in a mythological series by Saint-Saëns. The other three in the series are Danse macabre, Phaëton, and La jeunesse d'Hercule.

The middle section of Le Rouet d'Omphale was used as the theme music to the radio drama, The Shadow.

Apollo condemns Hercules to serve Omphale while disguised as a woman; for 3 years he slaves (while wearing woman's dress) spinning wool for her on a spinning wheel.