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VERPRECHEN (PROMISE) (2004)

Versprechen (Promise) by Kati Agócs was a tour de force for the player. With incessant double stops and encompassing the full range of the cello (at one point, a leap of two octaves brought the cellist’s left hand within a couple of inches of the bow), Promise is gripping to watch and hear. - THE BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER

"My favourite piece [on the disc] is Kati Agócs's Versprechen (Promise), which reimagines a Bach chorale using the sort of variations on note sequences favoured by Serialist composers. This is beautifully varied, highly textured writing…- MUSICAL TORONTO

“Kati Agócs’s Versprechen, for solo cello, was grimly dramatic… its source a Bach chorale, amplified into double-stop impasto, boiled away to a wisp of harmonics, finally coming into hard-won light.” THE BOSTON GLOBE

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