Les Ruses d'Amour : Andreescu / Romanian State Orchestra

ALEXANDER KONSTANTINOVICH GLAZUNOV (1865-1936)
Les Ruses d’amour, Op. 61 - Ballet in One Act

Introduction et Scene I
Recitatif mimique
Sarabande
Farandole et Scene II
Danse des marionettes
Scene III
Scenes IV et V
Variation
Scene VI, Marcia
Scene VII, Grande Valse; Scenes VIII?XI
Ballabile des paysans et des paysannes
Grand pas des fiances
Variation
La Fricassee

Romanian State Orchestra (Iasi Moldova Philharmonic Orchestra)
Horia Andreescu, conductor

Recorded 11/1986
Originally issued on MARCO POLO (8.220485)

Glazunov’s ballet Les Ruses d’amour (also known as The Trial of Damis), is a charming choreographic realization of the French rococo, with a strong element of pastiche. Although the music is thoroughly Russian in its orchestral colouring and language, Glazunov makes imaginative use of earlier French dance melodies, and the score was praised by his former teacher Rimsky-Korsakov for its ‘unusual mastery of writing and extremely pictorial beauty’. The scenario concerns a duchess’s daughter, Isabella, who tests the Marquis Damis’s love by disguising herself as a maid servant. ( NAXOS )