Guido Turchi (10 November 1916 - 2010): Piccolo Concerto Notturno
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Jordá, conductor;
recorded live May 17,1963 at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco.
Guido Turchi was an Italian composer and writer on music. As did many of his contemporaries, he rejected the traditional Italian compositional style of his predecessors. Instead, his creative wellspring emanated from Gregorian plainchant, Renaissance madrigals, instrumental composers of the eighteenth century,