Joaquin Turina’s Danzas fantasticas and Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez succeed in taming the wilder aspects of the dance and of traditional music. Silvestre Revueltas’ film score-derived orchestral suite La Noche de Los Mayas seems written to liberate them, with the final movement unleashing primordial passions in a frenzy of massed percussion.

Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya wields the baton like a paintbrush, interpreting soundscapes with a deft ear for colour and texture. Opening this Friday night concert with Turina’s  flamenco-inspired terpsichorean triptych, he elicited from WASO a wonderful, burnished sonority and rhythmic vitality which convincingly resolved any contradiction between salon and tablao.

Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Photo © Daniel James Grant

Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez is far and away the most popular classical concerto ever written. Yet it is not performed as often as you might think. Australian guitarist Karin Schaupp and WASO last played it together in 2017, and that performance’s qualities – fire, finesse and a feeling for balancing neoclassical and flamenco idioms – were here again in abundance.

As a bonus, Schaupp returned to the stage for a solo encore, this time Richard Charlton’s...