Special offer. Chinary Ung, Vol. 4: Space Between Heaven and Earth
Susan Ung, Patricia Spencer, Meighan Stoops, Curtis Macomber, Blair McMillen, James Wilson, Michael Lipsey, Nicholas Terry, Brian Walsh, Justin DeHart, Shannon Wettstein, Felix Fan, Matthew Gold, Aleck Karis, Anne Harley, Stacey Fraser, Elissa Johnston, Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, Susan Narucki,...
All the performances seem authoritative. Special attention must be paid to the composer’s wife Susan, who has mastered the technique of performing on her viola while singing, and in Khmer to...
Special offer. Chinary Ung, Vol. 4: Space Between Heaven and Earth
Susan Ung, Patricia Spencer, Meighan Stoops, Curtis Macomber, Blair McMillen, James Wilson, Michael Lipsey, Nicholas Terry, Brian Walsh, Justin DeHart, Shannon Wettstein, Felix Fan, Matthew Gold, Aleck Karis, Anne Harley, Stacey Fraser, Elissa Johnston, Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, Susan Narucki,...
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All the performances seem authoritative. Special attention must be paid to the composer’s wife Susan, who has mastered the technique of performing on her viola while singing, and in Khmer to...
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Volume 4 of Bridge's Chinary Ung series presents five major works composed between 1987 and 2018 by the Grawemeyer Award-winning Cambodian/American composer. Annotator Adam Greene writes: 'Ung was inspired by his mentor, Chou Wen-chung, to pursue music that explored cross-cultural practices. Ung's own term for the 'style' of music that evolved was 'futuristic folk music', which generally speaking, he approaches through two processes: quotation and evocation. Ung's music is deeply suffused with Asian features, including modal writing, the use of drones, microtonal inflections, elaborate percussion sections, and an expansive, even languid approach to musical-time'.
Artists
Susan Ung, Patricia Spencer, Meighan Stoops, Curtis Macomber, Blair McMillen, James Wilson, Michael Lipsey, Nicholas Terry, Brian Walsh, Justin DeHart, Shannon Wettstein, Felix Fan, Matthew Gold, Aleck Karis, Anne Harley, Stacey Fraser, Elissa Johnston, Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, Susan Narucki, Hillary Jean Young, Jon Lee Keenan, Todd Strange, Joseph Lopez, Abdiel Gonzales, Jonathan Nussman, James Hayden, Reid Bruton, Wilfrido Terrazas, Paul Sherman, Robert Zelickman, Fiona Digney, Benjamin Rempel, Shalini Vijayan, Batya MacAdam-Somer, Peter Jacobson, Matthew Kline, James Baker, David Rentz, Gil Rose
Contents and tracklist
- Susan Ung, Patricia Spencer, Meighan Stoops, Curtis Macomber, Blair McMillen, James Wilson, Michael Lipsey, Nicholas Terry
- James Baker
- Brian Walsh, Nicholas Terry, Justin DeHart, Shannon Wettstein
- Felix Fan, Matthew Gold, Aleck Karis
- Anne Harley, Stacey Fraser, Brian Walsh, Susan Ung, Nicholas Terry
- David Rentz
- Elissa Johnston, Susan Ung, Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, Susan Narucki, Stacey Fraser, Hillary Jean Young, Anne Harley, Jon Lee Keenan, Todd Strange, Joseph Lopez, Abdiel Gonzales, Jonathan Nussman, James Hayden, Reid Bruton, Wilfrido Terrazas, Paul Sherman, Robert Zelickman, Fiona Digney, Benjamin Rempel, Shalini Vijayan, Batya MacAdam-Somer, Peter Jacobson, Matthew Kline
- Gil Rose
Awards and reviews
July/August 2020
All the performances seem authoritative. Special attention must be paid to the composer’s wife Susan, who has mastered the technique of performing on her viola while singing, and in Khmer to boot! While she does not have a traditionally trained voice, its slight rawness actually adds a level of humanity and authenticity to her interpretations. I never doubt her intonation, since she delivers her lines so convincingly.
