Echoes of Now
2015 marked a turning point in my career as a musician: it was the year I came into close and meaningful contact with contemporary music for solo trombone. Invited by the TKE association, promoter of the festival Risuonanze – Incontri di nuove musiche, I had the privilege of premiering works by composers from all over the world, collaborating closely with them up to the very first performance of their pieces.
In my daily work as an orchestral musician, one often wonders: “Is this really how the composer envisioned the music? In this ‘etwas drängend’, how much weight lies in the word ‘etwas’?” The chance to work directly with those who actually write the notes is a rare gift, a richness that performance alone often cannot provide. For me, this encounter with contemporary music has become a boundless treasure.
From this experience Echoes of Now was born: a selection of nine of the roughly forty works I have performed between 2015 and 2025. Ten years of encounters, new sounds, and unforgettable moments that continue to resonate in my journey as a trombonist.
This collection also carries an educational purpose: to broaden the repertoire available to new generations. The pieces differ in length, difficulty, character, and meaning, offering each young musician the opportunity to explore their instrumental skills, musical imagination, and curiosity.
With great enthusiasm, I invite you to embark on this special journey, hoping that the modern sounds of Echoes of Now will become a fresh and inspiring discovery in your own musical path.
https://nrwjazz.net/rezensionen/rocco-rescigno-echoes-of-now
Morphing Landscapes – Album release Spring 2026!
Rocco Rescigno_Rudy Fantin Duo
Rocco Rescigno Trombone e sordine
Rudy Fantin Pianoforte, Hammond Organ C3, Wurlitzer e Fender Rhodes MK I
The music of J.S. Bach has always fascinated the imaginations of musicians of every era and style. Renewing the original material, which is already exacerbated by reinterpretations, is a continuous challenge for every interpreter.
Morphing Landscape begins its journey through sound and its transformation, shifting attention to contemporaneity, not so much from the perspective of eternal content, but regarding timbre and the possibilities we have today to create new suggestions by transforming sound over time.
For the Cello Suites, Robert Schumann imagines and writes a piano accompaniment. Immediately, these transmute into repertoire pieces for the trombone, and today, in Morphing Landscapes, they are transformed in sound through mutes and spontaneous dialogue with 20th-century instruments, such as the Wurlitzer, the Fender Rhodes, and the Hammond Organ.
A transformation of the material through timbre and dialogue.
In the same way, the content of pieces composed by Eugene Bozza in homage to Bach is treated, creating new textures that are always in flux.
Garden of Leaflesness: Karen Keyhan, Rocco Rescigno
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