Chinary Ung, Vol. 4: Space Between Heaven and Earth

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Chinary Ung, Vol. 4: Space Between Heaven and Earth

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... — Fanfare, July/August 2020 More…

Release Date: 14th Feb 2020
Catalogue No: BRIDGE9533AB
Label: Bridge
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

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Ung: Singing Inside Aura

Work length14:32

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Susan Ung, Patricia Spencer, Meighan Stoops, Curtis Macomber, Blair McMillen, James Wilson, Michael Lipsey, Nicholas Terry
James Baker

Ung: Spiral XIV 'Nimitta'

Work length16:57

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Brian Walsh, Nicholas Terry, Justin DeHart, Shannon Wettstein

Ung: Spiral I

Work length15:36

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Felix Fan, Matthew Gold, Aleck Karis

Ung: Therīgāthā Inside Aura

Work length22:06

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Anne Harley, Stacey Fraser, Brian Walsh, Susan Ung, Nicholas Terry
David Rentz

Ung: Spiral XII 'Space Between Heaven and Earth'

Work length39:09

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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

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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'.

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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

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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.

Chinary Ung, Vol. 4: Space Between Heaven and Earth

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