Four instruments
Lama sabacthani? (1980)
String quartet
Premiere: Madrid, 4.4.1980
Recording: RNE
Work commissioned by the Spanish National Radio
Length: 12 min.
Cuarteto en sol / Quartet in G (1985)
String quartet
Premiere: Santiago de Compostela, 9.3.1987
Recording: RNE
Work commissioned by the Directorate General of Music and Theatre of the Ministry for Culture, in commemoration of the "European Year of Music"
Length: 17 min.
Cuarteto con piano / Piano quartet (1990)
Violin, viola, cello and piano
Premiere: Madrid, 27.2.1991
Recording: RNE / CD Verso
José Luis Turina. Chamber music, in the collection
Spanish and Latinoamerican composers of current music of the BBVA Foundation, 2013
Work commissioned by the Juan March Foundation
Length: 19 min.
YouTube link: First movement; Second movement; Third movement
Cinco estudios (d'après Valéry) / Five studies (d'après Valéry) (1993)
Lute quartet (Bandurria, alto lute, tenor lute and bass lute)
Premiere: Madrid, 10.12.1995
Recording: RNE
Work commissioned by the "Paco Aguilar" Quartet
Length: 14 min.
Cuatro cuartetos / Four quartets (1994)
Corni di Bassetto quartet
Premiere: Manzanares el Real (Madrid), 15.6.1996
Work commissioned by the "Manuel de Falla" Quartet
Length: 11 min.
Clémisos y Sustalos (Fourth string quartet) (2001)
Cuarteto de cuerda
Premiere: Madrid (Chamber Hall of Madrid National Auditorium), 21.11.2001
Work commissioned by the Tokyo String Quartet, in co-production with the Liceo de Cámara in Madrid, the 92nd Street Hall Chamber Cycle in New York, the Tokyo Opera City and the Città di Castello Festival (Italy)
Length: 18 min.
Las siete últimas palabras de Jesucristo en la Cruz / The seven last words of Jesus Christ on the cross (2004)
String quartet
Premiere: Cádiz, 30.10.2004
Recording: RNE
Work commissioned by Caja Madrid Foundation, to be premiered within the cycle "Haydn en Cádiz"
Length: 22 min.
Bach in excelsis (2017)
String quartet
Premiere: Madrid, 27.5.2024
Work composed for the Quiroga Quartet.
Length: 14 min.
Cuatro cuartetos / Four quartets (2018)
Version for saxophone quartet of the work of the same title for
Corni di Bassetto quartet (1994)
Premiere: Badajoz, 11.12.2018
Work composed for the "Folium fugit" Saxophone Quartet
Length: 11 min.
El viento que nunca duerme / The wind that never sleeps (2018-2019)
Flute, violin, viola and cello
Premiere: Madrid, 25.3.2023
Work composed for the Galerna Quartet
Length: 10 min.
Varius multiplex multiformis. (2023-2024)
Saxophone quartet
Premiere: Madrid, 3.6.2024
Work commissioned by the National Center for Musical Diffusion (CNDM), as part of the 2023/2024 artistic residency
Length: 12 min.