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@Deathtank No links to A.I.-generated music, please.

Well, this differs from all of the Dragon Quest submissions I've heard from you - an arrangement of Terra for a small chamber ensemble.  This adaptation for trumpet, violin, and what sounds like a very low-pitched flute made it a quick single-loop adaptation and a return to the A section for its ending.  It's a valid approach, and arrangements under two minutes had been possible on the site before - but for that to work, one expects to hear more complicated techniques relating to arrangement and presentation.  In this case, adding more to the arrangement would benefit it far more in its current state. As it is, I have heard three VSTs with considerably too much reverb for a chamber setup.  As Brad outlined above, the current staging of your instrumentation can't carry this alone despite your attention to articulations.  One idea is to ask for live performers for works like this - but with your history of repeated revisions of rejected works, something like this requires considerably more patience and perseverance.  Should you stick with your current loadout, it'll be a good idea to think of the natural ranges of your chosen instruments and figure out what would be your best option for writing it - it's not wise to go for something with a wide range for the sake of having a wide range, to switch note spectrums several times as you've done with your violin.  Even instrument sets based around a theme - like all strings, all winds, all brass, etc - would make it so much easier to figure out which virtual performer gets to emphasize what part, and it could be easier for you to figure out how to add more to the arrangement side of things. It's not a bad start, Eric, but I definitely want to hear more.  Further arrangement and a more concise direction for your instrument presentation would greatly benefit this, and with all the ideas given here, it's all up to you to figure out the latter.  Keep up the effort. NO

I'll spoop

I want to start out by saying there's some good personalization here and embellishment on the source material that is uniquely you. Good work there. The arrangement is ok, but definitely would not hurt from being expanded upon further more. Use of articulation was also executed well, aside from a couple of the trills. Specifically the trill at 1:01 and 1:07 both sound like they have notes in them that don't fit in with the other parts. 0:47 I'm not sure if it's the trumpet, trumpet + flute, or one of the string parts going a chromatic glissando here, but it's not sounding very idiomatic or good. For being a "treble" chamber piece, the trumpet is overpowering the other parts for most of the piece. It really makes this feel more like a solo trumpet piece rather than a chamber ensemble. Right now it feels like foreground and background parts only. Bringing that trumpet back into the ensemble so it sits amongst the other parts and is a group would be a benefit. A suggestion I would make is to consider swapping a part to a lower instrument like a cello to round out the low end some. That's not a requirement, but a nice to have. I don't have as much of an issue with the samples used as prophetik did, but having them be up front and exposed as they are now does not help them feel more realistic. With a track this short, everything would need to be firing perfectly on all cylinders to pass. Expand this out more, add more variation or another contrasting section, and work on the blend of the parts so they are working together as a group. The personalization is a good start here, but it needs more work on production and arrangement to get it over. NO

Also have an idea floating around (if enough people get hooked in / stick around / gets curious) to maybe do a listening party on the 31st for this, if that's a nice idea for folks. Depends on how many get involved or would like that, but I don't mind keepin' that in the back of my head for the time being until later down the line. :)