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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.
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov: Les Ruses d'amour, Op. 61
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
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Introduction et Scene I