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Bacon & Sowerby - Trios from the City of Big Shoulders | Cedille Records CDR90000203

Bacon & Sowerby - Trios from the City of Big Shoulders

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Label: Cedille Records

Cat No: CDR90000203

Barcode: 0735131920322

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 25th June 2021

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The twice-Grammy-nominated Lincoln Trio – violinist Desirée Ruhstrat, cellist David Cunliffe, and pianist Marta Aznavoorian – offers engaging, rarely heard piano trios by 20th-century Chicago composers Leo Sowerby, winner of the Rome Prize and Pulitzer Prize for music, and Ernst Bacon, recipient of three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Fellowship.

Bacon’s Trio no.2 for Violin, Cello and Piano (1987) receives its world-premiere recording. Hailed by The New York Times as “a Composer Known for Echoing America,” Bacon infuses the six-movement trio with American influences including marches, folksong-like melodies, and jazz rhythms, validating Virgil Thomson’s assessment of Bacon’s music as “full of melody and variety; honest and skillful and beautiful.”

Sowerby’s Trio for violin, violoncello and pianoforte (1953) is “a work of tremendous integrity” that exhibits an “imposing structure, contrapuntal gymnastics, and a concern for instruments sounding as good as they can” (Classical Net). Sometimes virtuosic, sometimes reflective, the work is distinguished by an ever-evolving rhythmic and harmonic interplay between instruments.

The Chicago-based Lincoln Trio’s Cedille Records discography includes three critically acclaimed full-length albums. Most recently, Trios from Our Homelands, released in 2016, earned a Grammy nomination for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. Gramophone admired “the poetry of their playing.” The Observer praised the ensemble’s “shapely and impassioned performances.” The album received ClassicsToday.com’s highest rating, a 10/10 for artistic and sound quality. The group also performed on the Grammy-nominated Naxos recording of James Whitbourn’s Annelies.

Trios from the City of Big Shoulders was recorded by the Grammy Award-winning team of producer James Ginsburg and engineer Bill Maylone.

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