Along with Falla, Albéniz, Granados and Mompou, Joaquín Turina made an outstanding contribution to Spanish piano repertoire. As a proud Andalusian, he openly admitted the local inspiration behind his work: ‘I want to sing of love and sadness, searching out that little corner of the Andalusian spirit that looks out to the wider world’. This first volume of Turina’s complete piano music features one of his most popular works, the Danzas fantásticas, better known in its orchestral version (recorded on Naxos 8.555955) but originally conceived for piano. The first set of Danzas gitanas, inspired by the gypsy world of Granada, met with immediate and enormous success.