As a committed Turina lover, it’s frustrating to have to hunt and scrape to find his complete orchestral output, enduring acres of pointless duplication in order to find the occasional CD premiere. This disc contains (as far as I can tell) two such: La Annunciación and El Jueves Santo a media noche (Midday on Holy Thursday). The other items have all been recorded before, but it hardly matters because these are slow, dull, amateurish performances indifferently recorded in an unpleasantly echo-ridden acoustic. The piano sound is particularly “twangy” and metallic. La oración del torero times out at an excruciating 11 minutes, the Serenata at 14 and one-half, nearly three minutes slower than I Musici di Montréal’s recent excellent Chandos recording. Unless you’re a Turina completist (and even if you are, you basically know what the two CD premieres are going to sound like), I’d skip this one.
