Franco Petracchi performs Bottesini Tarantella

This video (courtesy of Italian bassist Vito Liuzzi) features the incomparable bass virtuoso Franco Petracchi performing the Bottesini Tarantella on a hard-to-find documentary that RAI (Italian state television) did on this great artist:

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  1. vito
    vito on August 22, 2008 at 8:28 am

    Thanks a lot Jason.
    It’s possible to listen to this so marvellous performance also on YouTube. But here it’s better!!!
    Oh well if we want to finish talking about The Maestro, you can give a look also at:
    http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=bvyMmAv3CIU

    where Petracchi plays “Alla marcia” by Nino Rota (Divertimento Concertante) during a perfomance in Japan some years ago.

    One thing: a lot of italian important composers have written for Maestro Petracchi a lot of music for double bass. I remember “Sconcerto”, one of my favourite (written by the great Armando Trovajoli).

    Regards