The 19th piece of “Kusatsu Music Archive” is R.Strauss: Concerto No.1 in E-Flat Major, Op.11 TrV117, Ⅲ. Rondo: Allegro (Original: Horn Concerto). Ian Bousfield plays the trombone with Kusatsu Festival Orchestra under the direction of Antoni Wit.
World-renowned musicians on a variety of instruments participate in the Kusatsu Music Festival, and Ian Bousfield is one of them and he has been visiting the festival every few years since 2005. He is one of the top brass/trombone players and professors and it is said that “He has got all the techniques of the trombone”. He plays works written for other instruments as if they were trombone originals, conveying the beauty of the music. Ian Bousfield plays R.Strauss’s horn masterpieces on trombone.