Composer: Joaquín Turina (1882 - 1949)
Joaquín Turina was a Spanish composer who helped to promote the national character of 20th-century Spanish music. His door into music was through a small accordion owned by a housemaid. He soon was studying piano and while still a child began studying composition. He debuted as a performer at 14. As a young adult he traveled to Paris to study and was encouraged to try composing in the French style by Debussy and Ravel. Though he absorbed elements of the French style, he was inspired in Paris by Isaac Albéniz to write distinctively Spanish music.
The Danses Gitanes were written in 1930 and are among Turina's best-loved piano works.
Recorded January 8, 2017
Piano: 2003 Steinway & Sons "B"
No. 1 Zambra
No. 4 Generalife
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