The opening Violin Concerto is a good introduction to Fung, offering an immediate vista of her understated but brilliant orchestration and her technically demanding but musically riveting writing for the violin.

This, easily, one of the most unusual piano concertos you will ever hear but, I think, the strongest work in this collection and completely fascinating. The fact that she is, clearly, a very creative and skilled composer is all I need to recommend this without hesitation.

Vivian Fung’s Dreamscapes is a cutting-edge album in the best sense, an invigorating indication of where we are in classical music.

Exciting, skilfully put together music with many exoticisms.

“What sets Fung apart is her ability to take over the subconscious of the listener, to build a world so captivating that even the strangest of transitions happen seamlessly. “

“The year-old Violin Concerto that leads off the disc boasts a certain winsome charm, especially in the fluid performance of soloist Kristin Lee.”

Le Poisson Rouge
October 21–23, 2012

At every point in the disc, Fung has a strong sense of thematic control and structural overview that suggests more great things to come.

Here at last is music of dramatic urgency and depth, in which Fung draws on ideas from gamelan while also adding plenty of her own original material - clangorous, dissonant harmonies, off-kilter rhythms and a sense of wild unpredictability.

Chatting with composer Vivian Fung about her upcoming studio release with Metropolis Ensemble and finding her voice in the creative process.

All three of the works presented here are based on gamelan motifs and melodies giving the disc a wonderful continuity.