Joaquín Turina - La Oración del torero Op. 34 (1925, string orchestra) [Score]

Joaquín Turina (1882/1949), La Oración del torero, for lute quartet (or string quartet/string orchestra), Op. 34 (1925).

“Al Cuarteto Aguilar (To Aguilar Lute Quartet)”.

I Musici de Montréal, Dir. Yuli Turovsky, (Chandos Records, 1994).

WARNING: Score is not in HD; I have also the lute score which is on IMSLP, if someone wants a score video with that score fell free to ask, even if there are some (slight) differences between the lute score and the strings score.

Description by James Manheim (Allmusic.com)

La oración del torero (The Bullfighter's Prayer), mixing the tried-and-true Spanish themes of religion and bullfighting, was a key work in cementing Turina's national recognition in Spain. An unassuming miniature, the work was composed in 1925 for, and dedicated to, the Aguilar Lute Quartet. Inspired by the work's popularity, Turina quickly rescored it for string quartet and, eventually, for string orchestra. The rescorings became the most popular versions of the work, and the composition in whatever form became one of Turina's most widely recorded chamber selections. Those who have recorded the work include the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Manhattan Quartet, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, and the Hollywood Quartet. One of the attractive features of Turina's music in general is that among the composers of the Spanish nationalist movement, he was the only one to write a significant amount of chamber music. Despite the plethora of Spanish scenes and themes mentioned in the titles of his pieces, he kept one foot in the French tradition and tended more than his compatriots to compose in traditional pan-national forms. About eight or nine minutes long, La oración del torero offers a variety of colors and energy levels appropriate to its subject. The work begins calmly, passing through episodes of propulsive rhythm and temperamental outbursts to reach a high-powered climax. The prayerful opening material returns to round things out. Despite all the Spanish character on display, the work shows the influence of Debussy, as Turina's music so often does, in its profusion of parallel ninth chords. Even in the bullring, Turina shows his typical grace and subtlety.

Joaquín Turina Pérez (9 December 1882 – 14 January 1949) was a Spanish composer of classical music.

Turina was born in Seville. He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid. He lived in Paris from 1905 to 1914 where he took composition lessons from Vincent d'Indy at his Schola Cantorum de Paris and studied the piano under Moritz Moszkowski. Like his countryman and friend, Manuel de Falla, while there he got to know the impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy.

On 10 December 1908 he married Obdulia Garzón and together they had five children. She was the dedicatee of the Danzas fantásticas, which he completed in 1919.
Along with de Falla, he returned to Madrid in 1914, working as a composer, teacher and critic. On 28 March 1916, he joined the Madrid Symphony Orchestra at the Hotel Ritz in that city, to perform the premiere of Falla's revised orchestral version of El amor brujo. In the early months of 1929, he visited Havana, Cuba, where he gave a series of seven lectures at the Hispanic-Cuban Institute of Culture.

In 1931 he was made professor of composition at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. He died in Madrid. Among his notable pupils were Vicente Asencio and Celedonio Romero.

His works include the operas Margot (1914) and Jardín de Oriente (1923), the Danzas fantásticas (1919, versions for piano and orchestra), La oración del torero (written first for a lute quartet, then string quartet, then string orchestra), chamber music, piano works, guitar pieces and songs. Much of his work shows the influence of traditional Andalusian music. He also wrote a short one-movement Rapsodia sinfónica (1931) for piano and orchestra. His music often conveys a feeling of rapture or exaltation. His guitar works include Fandanguillo and Hommage à Tárrega, which were written for Andrés Segovia. The dedicatee and/or first performer of a number of his piano works was José Cubiles.

(Wikipedia)

Original audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxqlqrJcMf4
Score: https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Turina,_Joaqu%C3%ADn
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