Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic continue their exploration of the Spanish repertoire with this programme pinpointing Turina’s Andalusian roots. However, listening to his Rapsodia sinfónica for piano and strings, a fairly late work of 1931, you are reminded that in his early years Turina studied in Paris, where Debussy held sway. While the music has a distinctive, ripe Spanish aroma, on occasion there are reminiscences of a Gallic finesse in texture, harmony and turns of phrase and, indeed, of the ways in which French composers of the early 20th century evoked a Spanish atmosphere. It makes for an attractive amalgam, particularly here with Martin Roscoe as a pianist who recognises the sophistication as well as the rhythmic robustness of the piano-writing.

The fact that Turina was a skilled orchestrator is manifest throughout this disc in performances of La procesión del rocío and the Danzas gitanas that have a shifting, subtle spectrum of colour delineating the music’s light and shade, its sunshine and louring clouds, its sensuality and sinew. What might come across as irksome motivic tics are woven into a rich, multifaceted fabric, no more so than in the Canto a Sevilla, a work that Victoria de los Angeles made her own. María Espada adds a luminous glow to this homage to Seville in all its mystery and magic, exuberance and eerie phantasms.