Turina: Danzas Fantasticas, Sinfonia Sevillana, La Procesion del Rocio

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López-Cobos, departing from his successful tenure at the helm of the Cincinnati orchestra, opens the program with "Iberia," the most popular of Debussy's Images for Orchestra. It's played beautifully, though without the drive that permeates versions by Munch and Paray, among others. But the main attraction here is the works of Turina, and they get bang-up performances. The three Danzas Fantàsticas, which Turina later transcribed for piano, are ravishing in their Impressionistic orchestral garb, and the final one bristles with the energy of flamenco. Sinfonia Sevillana, really a three-movement tone poem, paints a colorful picture of a colorful city, and La Procesión del Rocio, a tone portrait of a religious procession in Seville, is infused with gypsy melodies. López-Cobos and his orchestra are in their element here, and it's hard to imagine more fetching performances of Turina's music, especially as enhanced by Telarc's fine sonics. --Dan Davis

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Turina: Danzas Fantasticas, Sinfonia Sevillana, La Procesion del Rocio
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Good all round
  • Sounds like De Falla's lost music
  • Viva Turina!
  • Magnificent recording, both musically and technically
 Turina: Danzas Fantasticas, Sinfonia Sevillana, La Procesion del Rocio
Jesus Lopez-Cobos
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ASIN: B00005R1K1
Release Date: 2001-11-27

Tracks:

  1. Debussy: Iberia from "Images" For Orchestra: Par les rues et par les chemins
  2. Debussy: Iberia from "Images" For Orchestra: Les parfums de la nuit
  3. Debussy: Iberia from "Images" For Orchestra: La matin d'un jour de fete
  4. Turina: Danzas Fantasticas, Op. 22: Exaltacion
  5. Turina: Danzas Fantasticas, Op. 22: Ensueno
  6. Turina: Danzas Fantasticas, Op. 22: Orgia
  7. Turina: Sinfonia Sevillana, Op. 23: Panorama
  8. Turina: Sinfonia Sevillana, Op. 23: Por el rio Guadalquivir
  9. Turina: Sinfonia Sevillana, Op. 23: Fiesta en San Juan de Arznalfarache
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  11. Turina: La Procesion Del Rocio, Op. 9: La procesion

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López-Cobos, departing from his successful tenure at the helm of the Cincinnati orchestra, opens the program with "Iberia," the most popular of Debussy's Images for Orchestra. It's played beautifully, though without the drive that permeates versions by Munch and Paray, among others. But the main attraction here is the works of Turina, and they get bang-up performances. The three Danzas Fantàsticas, which Turina later transcribed for piano, are ravishing in their Impressionistic orchestral garb, and the final one bristles with the energy of flamenco. Sinfonia Sevillana, really a three-movement tone poem, paints a colorful picture of a colorful city, and La Procesión del Rocio, a tone portrait of a religious procession in Seville, is infused with gypsy melodies. López-Cobos and his orchestra are in their element here, and it's hard to imagine more fetching performances of Turina's music, especially as enhanced by Telarc's fine sonics. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Good all round.......2003-07-23

You might not want to hear the music very often, - though in fact its great fun, with the slow movement of the Sinfonia Sevillana being quite lovely, but you will want to hear the sound, which is gorgeous, if a little drily analytical in DSD fashion.

5 out of 5 stars Sounds like De Falla's lost music.......2003-06-02

I am excited to find new music especially when it's good. Turina offers a clearly spanish style of composing that would be at home with Manual De Falla who I am familiar with. Turina is his own man and I hear nothing derivative here, just some deliciously melodic and interesting material. Of course the playing is excellent with wonderful clarity in the wide-range recording.

5 out of 5 stars Viva Turina!.......2003-02-06

Yes, the Debussy sounds great on this recording, but the three works by Turina are the real highlights here. The Danzas Fantasticas in particular are great fun and compare well with any number of better-known "Spanish" pieces for orchestra. The Cincinnati musicians are in fine form, and the Telarc sound would be hard to improve upon. And I agree with the other reviewer about the quality of the playing in Cincinnati in general--to paraphrase Elgar: the center of the orchestral world in the US is now probably somewhere rather west of New York and Philadelphia.

5 out of 5 stars Magnificent recording, both musically and technically.......2002-01-17

What a fitting departure for the great Jesus Lopez-Cobos, who is leaving the great Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in superb shape after a 15 year tenure. This recording will unfortunately be overlooked by many because it is not Mahler, Bruckner, Beetoven, etc. This is unfortunate, however, as it is a magnificent work of art on all levels. On the basis of this and other CSO recordings over the past decade it it clearly time to reassess the American "Top Five" orchestras---and proclaim the Cincinnati among the greats.
Sinfonia Sevillana
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Mediocre sound
  • Turina gets an long-deserved airing
 Sinfonia Sevillana
Turina , Darman , and Castile & Leon So
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ASIN: B00006A6Z9
Release Date: 2003-01-21

Tracks:

  1. Panorama
  2. Por El Rio Guadalquivir
  3. Fiesta En San Juan De Aznalfarache
  4. Exaltacion
  5. Ensueno
  6. Orgia
  7. Preludio (Lento) - Danza Lejana (Andantino) - Vals Tragico (Allegretto) - Garrotin (Allegretto Ritmico) - Intermedio (Lento) - Danza Exotica (Moderato)
  8. La Procesion Del Rocio

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Mediocre sound.......2006-07-23

Although I'm no stickler for the latest digital wizardry, the sound is what hurts thess performances, not the conducting, or even the somewhat hurley-burley orchestra. The Sinfonia is a major work, and deserves a wider audience; the orchestral versions of the Danzas are an interesting alternative to the *excellent* piano version on Naxos (Jordi Maso); and the Ritmos will be new to most listeners. But...this CD has the unfortunate characteristic problems with treble common to many early CDs (though this recording is by no means old). The violins get quite shrill at times, especially in loud passages. I'd enthusiastically recommend the Lopez-Cobos reading of the Sinfonia and Danzas, but unfortunately his CD also has a surprisingly tepid version of Iberia. The Naxos CD is a keeper - but it could have been so much better.

4 out of 5 stars Turina gets an long-deserved airing.......2003-02-01

Is there anyone who doesn't respond to the voluptuous melodies and alternately sultry or invigorating rhythms of 20th century Spanish music? We've been lavished with great recordings of Spanish music by pianists of at least three generations: Arthur Rubinstein (in Spain he was called 'our Arturo'), Alicia de Larrocha, and now Santiago Rodriguez. But recordings of the extensive Spanish orchestral repertoire of this period has shamefully been largely limited to a few well-known pieces: 'La Vida Breve,' 'Three-Cornered Hat,' the orchestral version of 'Ibéria,' 'Nights in the Gardens of Spain'; 'Spanish' pieces by French and Russian composers don't count. Turina's music is treated like a step-child. He's of the same generation as De Falla and has pretty much been in his shadow. At any rate, when is the last time (if ever) you heard any of these pieces in a concert?

Probably the best-known pieces here are the three 'Danzas fantásticas,' at least partly because they exist in a fairly popular piano version. I've loved the second of them, 'Ensueño' ('Dream'), as a separate piece for many years, after first hearing it played by Rubinstein. And occasionally one will hear Turina's earliest orchestral piece: 'La procesión del Rocio,' which depicts a religious procession in a small town near Seville. One hears church bells and the Spanish national anthem as the procession wends its way toward the village church.

'Ritmos' was written in the 1920s as a ballet for the famous Spanish dancer 'La Argentina', but it was never staged and it has rarely been heard outside Spain since its 1928 première. It is in six movements, played without pause. The most evocative is the last one, 'Danza exótica', which recalls themes from the earlier movements in languid, and then exciting, rhythms.

The most important piece on this disc is the 'Sinfonía sevillana', which some consider Turina's orchestral masterpiece. It is certainly one of the most important Spanish sympthonies of its century. The middle movement, 'Por el río Guadalquivir', is a subtly perfumed nocturne. It is followed by the raucous dance episodes of 'Fiesta en San Juan de Aznalfarache,' which closes out the symphony with finger-snapping vigor.

It must be noted that the spectacularly talented Spanish conductor, Jésus López-Cobos, recorded all these pieces (except for 'Ritmos') with the Cincinnati Symphony just before he left his long-time post as music director there. I've not heard that recording, but from his earlier recording of Albéniz's 'Ibéria' with that orchestra, I would bet it's a scorcher.

This recording is with a regional Spanish orchestra and the playing is a little rough and ready in places, but the players certainly have this music in their bones and the Iberian spirit is all there. And you can't beat Naxos's prices, can you?
Joaquín Turina: Orchestral Works
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    		Joaquín Turina: Orchestral Works

    Manufacturer: MD&G Records
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    ASIN: B0000021GJ
    Release Date: 1997-08-19

    Tracks:

    1. Danzas Fantasticas, Op.22: Exaltation. Lento-Vivo
    2. Danzas Fantasticas, Op.22: Reverie: 1. Moderato/2. Allegretto Quasi Andantino
    3. Danzas Fantasticas, Op.22: Orgy. Allegretto Mosso Quasi Allegro
    4. Sinf Sevillana, Op.23: Panorama. Andante
    5. Sinf Sevillana, Op.23: Along The Guadalquivir River. Andante
    6. Sinf Sevillana, Op.23: Fiesta En San Juan De Aznalfarache. Allegro Vivo
    7. La Oracion Del Torero, Op.34: Allegro Moderato
    8. La Procesion Del Rocio, Op.9: 1. Triana En Fiesta/2. La Procesion
    Turina: Danzas Fantasticas; Sinfonia Sevillana; Debussy: Iberia
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      		Turina: Danzas Fantasticas; Sinfonia Sevillana; Debussy: Iberia

      Manufacturer: Telarc
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      ASIN: B00005QZLC
      Release Date: 2001-10-23
      Turina: Danzas fantásticas Op22/1-3; procesión del Rocio Op9/1&2
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        		Turina: Danzas fantásticas Op22/1-3; procesión del Rocio Op9/1&2
        Joaquin Turina , Antonio de Almeida , Dr. Stefan Mikorey , and Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
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        Release Date: 1992-06-09

        Tracks:

        1. Danzas fantasticas Op. 22: Exaltacion
        2. Danzas fantasticas Op. 22: Ensueno
        3. Danzas fantasticas Op. 22: Orgia
        4. La procesion del Rocio Op. 9: Triana en fiestas
        5. La procesion del Rocio Op. 9: La procesion
        6. Sinfonia sevillana Op. 23: Panorama (Andante)
        7. Sinfonia sevillana Op. 23: Porel Rio Guadalquivir
        8. Sinfonia sevillana Op. 23: Fiesta en San Juan de Aznalfarache
        9. Ritmos Op. 43 (Fantasia coreografica): Preludio
        10. Ritmos Op. 43 (Fantasia coreografica): Danza lenta
        11. Ritmos Op. 43 (Fantasia coreografica): Vals tragico
        12. Ritmos Op. 43 (Fantasia coreografica): Garrotin
        13. Ritmos Op. 43 (Fantasia coreografica): Intermedio
        14. Ritmos Op. 43 (Fantasia coreografica): Danza exotica

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        Turina's colorful and picturesque music seems to be represented almost solely by the last dance--"Orgia"--of the Danzas Fantásticas. This is a pity, for although he didn't write very much orchestral music (what Spanish composer did?), what we have is just terrific. The late ballet, Rítmos, is particularly rewarding purely as a piece of music, while the Sinfonía Sevillana remains one of the most tuneful and immediately appealing of the world's great musical cityscapes. These performances, by the late Antonio de Almeida, are simply the finest available. He brings an irresistible momentum and energy to each piece, and the orchestra gives him 100 percent effort all the way. --David Hurwitz

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