WNYC.org (Radio station in New York, US), 01. Februar 2012
Ultraschall Festival Opens Journey Into Contemporary Music
by Rebecca Schmid

The boundaries between theater and concert performance have been eroded steadily since the second half of the 20th century, not always to convincing effect. Nemtsov's cycle consists of musical responses to texts by Marcel Proust, Walter Benjmain, W.G. Sebald, whose writings are infused with haunting nostalgia.
Against a minimalist yet surrealist stage design by Anna Peschke, Nemtsov's music at times succeeded at creating eerie sound worlds that crawled under your skin, from the whirring of tops under rattling teacups and the plucking of harp strings in "Laterna magica/Combray" to the clanking of suspended bedposts, bagpipes and clinking of typewriters in "Central Park/Manhattan or Landzunge/New Jersey."

Musicians of the Ensemble Adapter, led by Manuel Nawri, fleshed out their roles with conviction, although their deathly serious expressions often proved distracting. The unrenovated ballroom of Mitte's Sophiensäle provided an ideal setting, an immediate reminder of the disintegration alluded to by Sebald and Benjamin, although the memories captured by Nemtsov were more self-reflexive than socially encompassing.