Cultural Attaché: New in Music this Week: October 27th
If you want to get a good snapshot of composer Vivian Fung’s chamber music, this excellent recording by the Jasper String Quartet will reveal exactly how talented Fung is.
There are four string quartets on this album: String Quartet No. 1 was composed in 2003 and premiere in early 2004. The second string quartet was commissioned by Shanghai Quartet and was composed and premiere in 2009. String Quartet No. 3 was commissioned by the Banff Centre and the Canadian Broadcasting Company (Fung is from Canada). The work premiere in 2014. The last work, which gives this album its title, was composed in 2019 and had its world premiere in a performance by the American String Quartet.