Turina: Danzas Fantasticas, Sinfonia Sevillana, La Procesion del Rocio
López-Cobos, departing from his successful tenure at the helm of the Cincinnati orchestra, opens the program with "Iberia," the most popular of Debussy'sImages 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 threeDanzas 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, andLa 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