Pedro Piquero- Turina: Piano Works

Three vividly picturesque piano suites, evoking the colours and rhythms of Spanish life, in a new recording by a native artist trained within the long and distinguished Spanish piano tradition. Pedro Piquero trained with the Spanish pianist Esteban Sanchez, who had himself studied with Alfred Cortot before returning to his native Spain to pass on his insights into the kind of repertoire recorded here. Brilliant Classics issued a box of Sanchez's recordings of Albeniz, and this new recording of Turina's music by his former student forms a fitting sequel. The piano lay at the centre of Turina's life and work, as it did for his near contemporary Maurice Ravel. The piano became the expressive complement to the other instrument that accompanied Turina for most of his life: the camera. An amateur photographer, with an impeccable eye, he captured "objective" images with his camera and then "subjectivised" them in his music. Seville, his native city, was always with him, whether in presence or