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Mar 17, 2022 · Felix Mendelssohn’s Ruy Blas Overture is a great concert opener, with its classy melodies, energetic tempi and dramatic texture changes. He may not have liked Hugo’s play, but this certainly does not show in his overture.
Jul 6, 2016 · Set in the seventeenth-century, the action centers on a villain who takes revenge on the queen of Spain for spurning his advances. He passes off his indentured servant Ruy, who has a crush on the queen, as a nobleman in the hopes of capturing the queen and the servant in a compromising situation.
The overtures Ruy Blas, Calm Sea and Hebrides , plus the complete Midsummer Night’s Dream music, also feature as part of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s LSO Live series of recordings of the Mendelssohn symphonies, now collected as a set (LSO0826, 4 SACDs + blu-ray audio, around £24 or download from hyperion-records.co.uk for £12/£18, 16-/24-bit).
There's much to savour in Gardiner's urgently driven account of Ruy Blas, and the vibrato-less string passage that opens Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage is simply spellbinding, reminding us of the wizardry and phenomenal aural imagination that is ever present in Mendelssohn's orchestration.
Feb 18, 2024 · Don Salluste’s brother refuses to help; he instead disguises his valet, Ruy Blas, as a nobleman and introduces him to the royal court. Blas does surprisingly well: he starts political reforms and wins the queen’s heart, creating the awaited tension between the royal couple.
Ruy Blas, Op.95 (Mendelssohn, Felix) Movements/Sections. 1 overture (414 bars) Composition Year. 1839 (03-08) Genre Categories. Overtures; For orchestra; Scores featuring the orchestra;
- Mendelssohn, Felix
- Op.95 ; MWV P 15
- IFM 147
- Ruy Blas
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Ruy Blas is bitingly dramatic. Its brooding, ominous opening speaks clearly to the mood of Hugo’s drama with its suspensions and eerie chords, and the allegro that follows is characterised by febrile, agitated strings that compel the whole drama forward, even in the major key second theme.
