La contrabbassata. — Prato, Italy : NBB Records, 2005.

Album description

1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm.
NBB Records: NBB 14.
For various combinations of 4-7 double basses.
Transcriptions and arrangements by Andrea Pighi except The shadow of your smile arranged for 4 double basses by Gerardo Jacoucci and rearranged for 5 double basses by A. Pighi.
Bass Gang (Amerigo Bernardi, Alberto Bocini, Andrea Pighi, Antonio Sciancalepore, double basses) ; with Franco Petracchi, Riccardo Donati, Gabriele Carpani, Anita Mazzantini, Silvia Muci, double basses.
Recorded live at S. Romano, Pisa, Italy, April 2-3, 2004, on the occasion of the prize to the career of Franco Petracchi and April 12 and November 24, 2004.
Contents: Jump / Eddie Van Halen (1:22) -- 5 x 4 medley: Take five / by Dave Brubeck ; Symphony No. 6, 2nd movement / Peter I. Tchaikovsky ; Everything’s alright / Andrew Lloyd Webber (4:31) -- The shadow of your smile / Mandel (2:24) -- Latin basses medley / Hernandez, Moreira, Barroso, Simons, Manzo, de Abreu (6:46) -- Zorbass / Mikis Teodoraki (4:00) -- Irlandese / Claude Bolling (3:12) -- My Sharona / D. Fieger -B. Averre (3:51) -- Funeral march of a marionette / Charles Gounod (2:49) -- Contrabajeando 5 / Astor Piazzolla (3:42) -- Libertango / Astor Piazzolla (2:31) -- Passioni amorose / Giovanni Bottesini (11:27).

I. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Passione amorose; arranged