BADISCHE ZEITUNG, 19/10/2002 --- In contrast to InSchrift, the events cut their way gradually from the underworld to the light, though anything but a peaceful flow. On the contrary, the solo cello swirls through the shoals of Hades, attempting to get rid of its chains in vain (as spectecular as confident: Lucas Fels). At the end there is a momant of songful lyricism, but no redemption. The piece ends abruptly. (...) Much applause.
DERNIERES NOUVELLES D´ALSACE , 3/10/2002 --- both hands of the brilliant Lucas Fels are most deeply involved in the performance making the audience feel almost dizzy. (...) Suggestive string noises, a fugitive abundance of hardly audible fragments, disrupted by sharp bowings now and then: the attraction of a ghostlike presence.
NEUE ZÜRICHER ZEITUNG, 14/8/2002 --- the performance of the Ensemble Recherche from Freiburg for instance was first rate. Cellist Lucas Fels performed marvellously the piece "Solo" by Beat Furrer, which was composed two years ago, an incredibly quiet sound study that causes the audience to cock their ears, subtly objecting to today's increasing acoustic garbage dump.
SALZBURGER NACHRICHTEN, 3/8/2002 --- Fels performed this "solo" with admirable concentration in the second concert of the festival "Austria Today", he performed the fine dynamic nuances utterly self-disciplined, restrained but ardently from within.
BERLINER MORGENPOST, 18/6/2001 --- The brilliant Lucas Fels plucks, coos and tickles acrobatically with his bow through the superimposed, completely unorthodox playing and bowing techniques. Afterwards was only applause (...)
BERLINER ZEITUNG , 18/6/2001--- The Ensemble Oriol, conducted by Peter Rundel, and the soloist Lucas Fels performed (...) with marvellous concentration and accuracy- and apparently with some delight in mastering the innovative techniques.
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG , 24/1/2001 --- The downright ascetic thinning and focussing of the material is first present in the second version of the cello concerto "Cantato di Sperenza" , composed only three years later, which was also performed this evening by the brilliant soloist Lucas Fels.
