Chinary Ung, Vol. 4 <br> Two discs <br> BRIDGE 9533A/BVolume 4 of Bridge's CHINARY UNG series (a 2 CD set), 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:

The American pianist Frank Glazer

Bradley Lubman

The Sound of Two Hands

Honeysuckle Rose (Fats Waller)

Three recent pieces

wispy but insistent figures very gradually morph into gently swinging lines in what the composer calls

Karol Bennett

Bonita Boyd began her career with the Rochester Philharmonic under David Zinman

Der Einsame

into a new era

The premiere recordings of these two major scores add significantly to the Wernick discography and reveal a composer of passion and vision

through articulate