Kaminsky / Oppens / Arizona State University Orch - Fantasy: Oppens Plays Kaminsky - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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 it's world-premiere recording. Hailed by The New York Times as Incha Composer Known for Echoing America,Inch Bacon infuses his six-movement trio with American influences including marches, folksong-like melodies, and jazz rhythms, validating Virgil Thomson's assessment of Bacon's music as Inchfull of melody and variety; honest and skillful and beautiful.Inch Sowerby's Trio for violin, violincello and pianoforte (1953) is Incha work of tremendous integrityInch that exhibits an Inchimposing structure, contrapuntal gymnastics, and a concern for instruments sounding as good as they canInch (Classical Net). Sometimes virtuosic, sometimes reflective, the work is distinguished by an ever-evolving rhythmic and harmonic interplay between instruments. Album Tracks 1. *Piano Trio No. 2 2. I. Lento 3. I. in Deliberate March Time 4. II. in An Easy Walk 5. III. Gravely Expressive 6. IV. Allegro 7. V. Commodo 8. VI. Vivace, Ma Non Presto 9. *Piano Trio 10. I. Slow and Solemn 11. II. Quiet and Serene 12. III. Fast; with Broad Sweep