On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: As a composer, Vivian Fung seeks to address different artistic challenges in her work, often highlighting issues of her Asian identity. That’s the case with her String Quartet No. 2, which uses a Chinese folksong as the basis of several sections of the piece. 

Then: Love, loss, and what we carry from those who leave us behind: these are the themes of four poems by Neil Aitken, set to music by Juhi Bansal in a piece titled “The Lost Country of Sight. It’s music and poetry that, in the composer’s words, portrays the cyclical nature of life and relationships, a look at the exile of body back to earth.

Listen for music by Tyriq Baker, Sebastian Quesada, Linda Buckley, Danielle Eva Schwob, Kari Telstad Sundet, Cassie Wieland, and others; and performances by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, cellist Tommy Mesa with pianist Michelle Cann, Jasper String Quartet, fivebyfive, violinist Adrianne Munden-Dixon, soprano Ruston Ropac with Blackbox Ensemble, and more.