Matilda Lloyd, Britten Sinfonia & Rumon Gamba – Casta Diva – Operatic arias transcribed for trumpet (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Matilda Lloyd, Britten Sinfonia & Rumon Gamba – Casta Diva – Operatic arias transcribed for trumpet (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:42 minutes | 1018 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos

Hailed as ‘remarkable’ by The Daily Telegraph, Matilda Lloyd is a young instrumentalist with exceptional poise and musicality. She studied music at the University of Cambridge, Royal Academy of Music, and with HAkan Hardenberger at Musikhogskolan i Malmo. She has since captivated audiences and critics alike with her artistry, communication, and, in the words of Saarbrucker Zeitung (March 2020), ‘flawless sound and virtuosic technique’, with which she brings a unique flair to every performance. She won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Brass Final in 2014, and in 2016 made her debut at the BBC Proms. Casta Diva is Matilda’s debut album on Chandos, about which she writes: ‘Every trumpet player has studied the ultimate technique book, by Jean-Baptiste Arban – a monumental tome affectionately known as ‘The Trumpet Bible’. At the end of the book are sets of theme and variations – my favourite, the Variations on Bellini’s Norma, became the point of departure for this album inspired by nineteenth-century Italian opera, as it uses the aria ‘Casta Diva’, from Bellini’s 1831 opera, as its theme. The album explores the voice of the trumpet in that golden age of opera, highlighting works by Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti. I hope that the album showcases the beauty, musicality, and technical brilliance of the instrument, and that you find as much enjoyment in listening to, as we did in arranging and recording, these fantastic pieces of music!’

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Kamila Bydlowska, Matilda Lloyd, Liepaja Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Arnold Griller: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kamila Bydlowska, Matilda Lloyd, Liepaja Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Arnold Griller: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:48 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics

Three recent works by the English composer Arnold Griller (born 1937) are joined here by the earliest music he still acknowledges, the gentle and touching Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra (1955), which is informed by a serenity and wisdom uncommon in such a young composer. Like Berg’s Violin Concerto, Griller’s (2017) was born of his response to the loss of a young life, and shares Berg’s elegiac awareness of dying beauty; the Trumpet Concerto (2018), by way of deliberate contrast, accumulates energy and vivacity as it proceeds. Dances under an Autumn Sky (2017), subtitled ‘Orchestral Music in Six Scenes’, is a balletic blend of joie de vivre and intense instrumental drama, which shares Stravinsky’s fondness for rhythmic surprises and Tippett’s for angular, primal energy.

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Matilda Lloyd & John Reid – Direct Message: 20th & 21st Century Works for Trumpet & Piano (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Matilda Lloyd & John Reid – Direct Message: 20th & 21st Century Works for Trumpet & Piano (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:10 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orchid Classics

Matilda Lloyd is a fast-rising star of the trumpet world, having won the BBC Young Musician of the year Brass Final as well as the Eric Aubier International Trumpet Competition, and having made an impressive solo debut at the BBC Proms. Matilda’s debut album reflects her desire to broaden the trumpet repertoire, with no fewer than three works recorded for the first time, by composers Giles Swayne, Deborah Pritchard and Alex Woolf. Also included on the recording are forgotten works of the 20th and 21st centuries by Jacques Castérède and Raymond Gallois Montbrun alongside staples of the trumpet repertoire, such as Enescu’s Légende and Peter Maxwell Davies’s impressive showpiece, Sonata for Trumpet and Piano Op.1.

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