“Intimate…Its first movement is a gradually intensifying assemblage of feathery, glassy wisps; the second, dominated by a piano solo that harkens to Romantic heft; the third, an earnest elegy with tangy harmonies and an effusive cello line.” - THE NEW YORK TIMES

"The three movements of Kati Agócs's mesmerizing Immutable Dreams take a quintet through vast sonic terrain, from delicacy to angry density. The second movement is an homage to the late György Ligeti in which the piano plays a bold cadenza, while the finale, "Husks," evokes poetic images through floating gestures and thunderous sonorities." -THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER

"Immutable Dreams closed the concert with an indelible impression. Muscular and direct, it comprised three intense and strongly contrasted movements. This experience lingered well after the concert ended."- THE BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER

"A restless memento mori for Pierrot ensemble with a haunting pulse. The instruments’ colors imperceptibly blended, fragments of ostinatos picking up on each other and spiraling outward."- THE BOSTON GLOBE

““Microconcerto [in Memoriam György Ligeti]” from Kati Agócs’s Immutable Dreams is a highly concentrated piano concerto…. a tribute in sound to Agócs’s Hungarian heritage and the inspiration of Ligeti, who passed away during the composition of this work."- I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

"This piece, written in the light of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, displayed new constellations of timbre – some raw, some effervescent, some irridescent, some incandescent, and some luminous. Composer Agócs marshals this galaxy of sound into a brilliant new composition that, metaphorically, is visually striking, and aurally gorgeous.” - THE NEW MUSIC CONNOISSEUR

“Seductive” - CHAMBER MUSIC

“We need to hear more of this composer.” - THE SARASOTA OBSERVER

“Elegant and elegiac...concludes with a haunting, musically enigmatic and gentle metacrusis” - THE WHOLE NOTE

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