“[The Bergamot Quartet and Claire Chase] performed Anthony Cheung’s “Real Book of Fake Tunes,” a collection of short pieces that are not exactly “tunes” in the traditional sense, but rather encourage performers — and audiences — to luxuriate in the shifting colors and textures of the instruments… Bergamot’s sound zipped up, radiating with an urgency to communicate something fascinating and rare.”

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“Cheung has matured, the refinement of his writing illuminates discourse as form. If the Impressionist tendency of "The Real Book of Fake Tunes" (2015) can sometimes call to mind Debussy or Roussel (undoubtedly the alloy of the flute and the strings, here a quartet) and even Murail, it is thanks not only to the fluidity of the material, but especially to the circulation of its influx between the voices.”

Pierre Rigaudière, Diapason (5-star review of Cycles and Arrows, translated from French)

“Cycles And Arrows is, like Dystemporal from 2016, further proof that Cheung is one of the finest composers of our time.”