Hardly known, rarely aired and little recorded, but with the current growth of interest in Spanish classical composers probably due for a revival of interest.
Once upon a time if you asked someone to name Spanish classical composers they might have come up with de Falla and Rodriguez but that’s about all, and the latter’s prominence might have been entirely due to the John Williams guitar recordings. More will now have heard of Granados and Albéniz, of course.
Even the best known of Turina’s piano pieces, The Danzas Fantásicas, are more famous for the fact that Alicia de Larrocha, arguably the greatest interpreter of the Spanish piano repertoire, recorded them, and as far as I can see don’t exist on CD at all, or at least not yet.
Also credited with a number of works for voice like this (Theresa Berganza recorded for BR Alpha 1975):
Once upon a time if you asked someone to name Spanish classical composers they might have come up with de Falla and Rodriguez but that’s about all, and the latter’s prominence might have been entirely due to the John Williams guitar recordings. More will now have heard of Granados and Albéniz, of course.
Even the best known of Turina’s piano pieces, The Danzas Fantásicas, are more famous for the fact that Alicia de Larrocha, arguably the greatest interpreter of the Spanish piano repertoire, recorded them, and as far as I can see don’t exist on CD at all, or at least not yet.
Also credited with a number of works for voice like this (Theresa Berganza recorded for BR Alpha 1975):
- the Concierto de Aranjuez famous long before John Williams' first recording of it, likewise the Fantasía para un Gentilhombre, dedicated to Segovia...)
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