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Turina: Danzas Fantasticas, Sinfonia Sevillana, La Procesion del Rocio
Jesús López-Cobos
Turina: Danzas Fantasticas, Sinfonia Sevillana, La Procesion del Rocio
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical
 
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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 t...  more »

     
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All Artists: Jesús López-Cobos
Title: Turina: Danzas Fantasticas, Sinfonia Sevillana, La Procesion del Rocio
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Label: Telarc
Release Date: 11/27/2001
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical
Styles: Forms & Genres, Concertos, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Instruments, Keyboard, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 089408057427

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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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Sounds like De Falla's lost music
Theodore R. Spickler | Beaver Falls, PA United States | 06/01/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."
Magnificent recording, both musically and technically
Theodore R. Spickler | 01/17/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."
Viva Turina!
P. SIMPSON | 02/06/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."