Download Performance of Arvo Pärt`s Passio: “…The performance given at St

Performance of Arvo Pärt’s Passio:
“…The performance given at St Peter's is of world-class quality, and would grace any
international platform....Danish-based Theatre of Voices, six of whose members take the solo parts
in this latter-day oratorio. These are beautifully modulated and tutored voices, each individual in
timbre, but blending mellifluously in the ensemble writing….. This is, in short, a performance of
the highest calibre".
culturenorthernireland.org (March 2013)
Concert with Kronos Quartet, Copenhagen:
“…And then the four Theatre of Voices soloists sang a gentle, tension-uncoiling vocal quartet with
roots in the English Renaissance, entitled Green, and it was a joy to coast towards the interval
with their pure, natural sounds in one’s ears…”
Politiken, 5 out of 6 hearts (December 2012)
Concert with London Sinfonietta, Copenhagen:
“…performed with spectacular purity and micro precise intonation by vocal ensemble Theatre of
Voices…”
From Zoë Martlew’s blog “the bridge” (October 2012)
Concert with London Sinfonietta, Copenhagen:
“We were given a series of pieces for sinfonietta, for singing voices and for the two elements in
marvellous combination – served up sparklingly by the outstanding musicians of the London
Sinfonietta and the four brilliant singers in Theatre of Voices on the stage of the Black Diamond”.
Jyllandsposten (October 2012)
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen at 80 - London Sinfonietta and Theatre of Voices:
“Certainly the birthday concert in the Black Diamond hall of the Royal Danish Library was
probably also extraordinarily successful because it was the top of the pops that gave it life…One of
the extreme high points was ‘Song’, in which Theatre of Voices sublimely divided the pitch-black
lament ‘Flow my Tears’ by the 16th-century composer John Dowland. Calmly and meticulously,
the melancholy verses were chopped up into atoms... And then, along the way, it all came together
again in a harshly beautiful, chanting epitaph of desolation in a perfect union of creaky throat
sounds and tormented utterances.
And both ensembles played and sang with a musical energy
rarely encountered.”
Politiken: 6 hearts out of 6. (October 2012)
Concert at East Neuk Festival:
“- a moving, seamless sequence of plainsong .. exquisitely sung and exotically underscored by
Andrew Lawrence-King"
The Scotsman (July 2012).
Creator Spiritus CD:
The quality of the singing, whether from choir or soloists, is outstanding.
Organists' Review (June 2012)
Creator Spiritus CD:
“…it is authoritative and supremely confident in the best possible way. It is foreboding in ensemble
and technique, but entrances are crisp and unobtrusive; intonation is perfect and the three singers
manage to find an ideal coalescence of vowel and tone. It is remarkable”.
ConcertoNET.com (maj 12)
Creator Spiritus CD
“The performances are beyond criticism…Outstanding in every way, Creator Spiritus is essential
for both Pärt newcomers and veterans”.
Arima.com (May 2012)
Creator Spiritus CD:
“…Minimally inclined though Pärt may be, this collection ensures maximum, ecstatic effect”.
105.9 FM WQXR The Classical Music Station of NYC (April 2012)
Creator Spiritus CD:
“Yet another brilliant Arvo Pärt programme from Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices, Creator
Spiritus intersperses religious choral works from different eras of the composer's career with
chamber-music pieces of comparable tone and piety, building to the climactic 26-minute "Stabat
Mater".
The Independent (March 2012)
Concert, Stockhausen’s Stimmung:
“Stimmung is technically fiendish. If it's done well – and it was done brilliantly here – the voices
sound fluid and spontaneous…”
Herald Scotland (March 2012)
Buxtehude’s Scandinavian Cantatas:
"The superb musicianship of the six voices and seven instrumentalists make this easy to
recommend enthusiastically"
Gramophone (January 2012)
Sold out concert in Carnegie Hall 2012 featuring David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion:
”Sublime”
New York Times (January 2012)
A Christmas Story CD:
“A trove of festive treasures. Theatre of voices shines in a fresh telling of the Nativity
story. Hillier’s is a smaller-scale, more intimate type of experience than the typical
King’s College Chambrdige presentation, and contiains many unfamiliar musical gems.
The standard of singing is consistently outstanding. A marvelous issue.”
BBC Music Magazine (December 2011)