Lincoln Trio Revives Rarities By Revered Chicago Composers June 11 On Cedille Records
The album takes its title from the Carl Sandburg poem that immortalized Chicago as the City of the Big Shoulders. by BWW News Desk
The Chicago-based Lincoln Trio - violinist Desirée Ruhstrat, cellist David Cunliffe, and pianist Marta Aznavoorian - offers large-scale, late-career piano trios by 20th-century Chicago masters: Ernst Bacon, recipient of three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Fellowship, and Leo Sowerby, first recipient of the Rome Prize (1921) and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for music (1946), on the group s new Cedille Records album, Trios from the City of Big Shoulders, available June 11, 2021.