Reviews
Alceste, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2010
Gluck’s reform operas give the chorus and orchestra huge dramatic responsibilities. Mr. Loy’s staging exacerbated these responsibilities, and miraculously they were met by English Voices, a chorus of 32 young singers who sang with magnificent Baroque gusto and seemed quite at home acting like six-year-olds. – Opera Today
Les membres soigneusement individualisés des English Voices, par ailleurs d’une tenue musicale et linguistique exemplaire, jouent très admirablement le jeu, en culottes courtes distanciées par des têtes plus tout à fait blondes. – Altamusica
[...] the exemplary English Voices chorus [...] – The Financial Times
Côté choeurs, les English Voices confirment la réputation d’excellence des formations d’outre-Manche. Mais aussi leur fantastique disponibilité aux exigences des metteurs en scène. – www.concertclassic.com
[...] den Chor stellen die brillanten English Voices [...] – Wiener Zeitung
Troisième protagoniste du drame, le chœur: un English Voices dont on apprécie autant la multiplicité des teintes que la netteté des attaques, non pas statique à la manière de ces grands ensembles marmoréens qu’on a pu entendre ailleurs mais ductile, d’une matière fluide et changeante en fonction des affects exprimés, et lui aussi idiomatique. – Forum Opéra
L'Orfeo, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2007
English Voices demonstrates a beautiful cohesion without neglecting the sometimes complex choreography (they manage to integrate with the dancers without one being able to tell the difference between them). – Le Monde
Solomon, May 2007
[…Ivor] Bolton's replacement Timothy Brown […] prepared the professional chorus English Voices for this performance, so might have been a natural choice as a substitute conductor, and anyone who was lucky enough to hear his peaking turn-of-the-century choir at Clare College Cambridge will be aware of his outstanding gifts as a trainer of ultra-disciplined choirs. And he didn't disappoint here, either, maintaining watertight control of tempi and blend, even if some unexpected rough-edges in the chorus attempted a breakout (yes, we know you're all aspiring soloists!). – Andrew Mellor The Filter Review
Solomon, March/April 2006
The richly textured effects of the divided choruses were wonderfully delivered by the high-calibre ensemble English Voices. – Evening Standard
In this performance under the direction of René Jacobs, English Voices made a vital contribution to its overall sonic richness […] – The Guardian
English Voices, a choir of 30, sang the choruses with remarkable clarity. – New York Times