by ORREA PERNEL
A slight programme is attached to the movements of this characteristically Spanish suite of Turina. It is as follows : In the first movement (Before the Mirror), the girl is standing before her mirror feeling very sad because she has no lover ; as she gazes, she realises her beauty and gradually becomes filled with hope, and there follows a hymn to beauty.
In the second (the Song of the Beauty Spot), she puts on a beauty spot to add to her charms and sings a soffg about it.
The third movement (Hallucinations), describes a vision of love which becomes frenzied and distorted.
In the finale (The Rosary in Church) the atmosphere of contemplation gradually calms the distraught girl, enabling her to face life and its realities with resignation.