Joseph Alessi plays Rouse - Trombone Concerto (1991) [w/ score] 

This is truly a brilliant piece of music and a brilliant performance. I could actually sit the 30 mins and listen through the whole piece and be totally captivated. Great composer and great performance. Thank you so much for this post.

A fine piece of music. Mr. Rouse "gets" the trombone, understands what it's really capable of, in a way you don't often hear. In particular, it has the vocal quality of an operatic baritone mourning with raw pain in the first movement, raging at Death in the second, and mourning with more acceptance of finality in the third. Really, the only negative criticism I'd offer is that some passages in the middle of the second movement sound a little too much like "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Also, the final theme sounds a bit "Broadway" - but it's a Bernstein quote, so of course it does.

Both Melissa Wagner and Chris Rouse got Pulitzers for their Alessi Trombone concerti . The rollickingfrenziedScherzo was set up well by the 1st mov.and its return make sense.I have the score for Wagner's and I 'm studying the orchestration for this now . The opening is really foreboding interesting dark,sinister music after 6 minutes all the weaving voices really set a suspenseful scene !

17:53 this argument of 4 ducks in the park over a piece of bread after such an apocalypse just before seems so comical and surreal, and that the solo duck is the one who wins by only protesting a little longer before returning to the water HAHAHAHAHAHA

This is awesome

Thanks you for uploading this :)

Wow this is fire.

I never thought I would see such negativity towards this piece in the comments. The possibilities of what can be done with classical music are endless, yet when a composition as thought provoking and unique as this is put out, it's ridiculed. Do people never tire of the endless monotony that is the majority of well known classical compositions? None of the three movements are continuously harshly dissonant, and there are many beautiful passages throughout the entire concerto. To say that the entire piece is "terrible" is such a limiting and uninformed point of view.

Cool to listen to once, never want to listen to again. Sorry, this music just doesn't do it for me 🤷‍♂️