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Zlatomir Fung cello
Fantasies
with Richard Fu piano

Signum Classics SIGCD882 released 25 April 2025

Album of the Week

Norman Lebrecht, The Critic, 9 March 2025

I love artists who attempt the impossible… The American cellist Zlatomir Fung has composed a fantasy on Janáček’s opera Jenůfa, a feat that defies credibility. The tunes and rhythms of Jenůfa are rooted in Czech speech patterns. Erase the voice, and what’s left? An X-ray. Fung and his pianist Richard Fu present fifteen minutes of skeletal examination in which not only the sounds but the tensions of Janáček’s masterpiece are grippingly realised. I can hardly believe that what they have done here is doable. I need to hear it live.

Norman Lebrecht, Lebrecht Weekly/La Scena Musicale, 7 March 2025