Resonance

The new album from British virtuoso trumpeter Matilda Lloyd with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lee Reynolds explores the many meanings of the word “resonance.” The two featured concertos echo music of the past, with Mieczysław Weinberg’s containing fanfares harking back to the trumpet’s military beginnings, as well as snippets of music by other composers, including Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March,” and Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka. Christoph Schönberger’s concerto draws upon the harmonic and melodic language of the Romantic period. The word “resonance,” as Lloyd says, “can also be used to describe the powerful images, feelings, or memories that are conjured up in the mind upon listening to music. Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise is the ultimate expression of this kind of resonance. The final work on the disc, Goedicke’s Concert Étude, holds a personal resonance: it was my favorite work for trumpet and piano when I was growing up.”