This amazing choir’s performance moved us to tears and their outward and inner beauty stole our hearts as well. What marvelous ambassadors all! Please visit us again!
Alexandria USA, April 2012

FANTASTIC! Lovely shaping and colours! Wow!
Professor Paul Mealor PhD FRSA, April 2012

I was delighted to be asked to join the Rodolfus Choir after enjoying two Eton Choral Courses. The choir has given me the chance to perform a variety of different choral works in a list of exciting venues and for CD recordings and live broadcasts. Not only have I had the opportunity to sing smaller chamber works with the choir, but also some of the larger works of the choral repertoire such as Bach's B minor mass and Handel's Messiah.

Typically, the choir only meets in school and university holiday breaks which means the programmes are always very fresh and exciting, and everyone always works hard under Ralph Allwood's accomplished direction. Ralph induces such a passion and interest for choral music amongst us all, and it is wonderful to be surrounded by other young singers from all over the country who share the same enthusiasm. I have met some of my greatest friends through the Rodolfus Choir and it is a real privilege to be part of a body of singers who perform together at such a consistently high standard.
Sarah Godlee, member of Rodolfus Choir

He’s probably one of the best directors working anywhere in choral music. What he has done at Eton and with the choral courses is unbelievable; the number of professional singers that have come out of them is quite astonishing.
Paul Mealor, July/August 2011 Choir and Organ Magazine

Utterly, utterly beautiful – and moving too.
Paul Frankl, Editor of The Genius of Mozart Season, BBC

They make a light, bright, exciting sound as evidenced by this terrific double CD of Monteverdi's Vespers. There is real spring in their tone, particularly in the Nisi Dominus, and crystal diction throughout. The solo voices have a youthful plaintiveness ­ enjoy the balancing tenors over the walking lute in Laetatus Sum. Margaret Faultless leads the excellent Southern Sinfonia, while the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble add a princely lustre to the worship.
The Times

Ralph Allwood, the finest trainer of young choirs in the country today...the Eton Choral Courses bring 250 teenagers to Eton college each summer. The best are then selected for a group called the Rodolfus Choir that gives concerts under Allwood's direction in London and at regional festivals.
The Times

Unspeakably beautiful ... a truly memorable performance. The Rodolfus Choir rise above the technical challenges to convey a sense of radiance and elation that is indelibly memorable...marvellous. Exemplary in every respect.
Gramophone

Choral singing of the highest quality ... a wondrous presentation. One could not ask for better performances.
Choir & Organ

Outstanding by any standards ... Sheer pleasure.
BBC Music Magazine

One of my favourite outfits. Arrangements are all first-rate ... everything from a Chopin Etude to the Sugar Plum Fairy ... all perfectly sung.
Choir & Organ

The finest young singers in Britain, all products of the elite Eton Choral Course, and conducted by its founder Ralph Allwood ... they are set apart by the force of their expression, power, and subtlety ... impeccable credentials.
Church Times

The 400th anniversary of Tallis's death has been overshadowed by the Tippett centenary, yet the Tudor polyphonist is arguably the greater composer. Ralph Allwood and The Rodolfus Choir drawn from young singers of both sexes who have participated in Allwood's summer schools have assembled a programme of his finest motets, anthems and hymns, without resorting to Spem in alium.

Their radiant reading of Videte miraculum is a technical triumph, but the most moving performance is of Thou wast, O God: an intimate hymn, and the inspiration for Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
Anna Picard, Independent on Sunday

The sound of the Rodolfus Choir is like that of no other UK chamber choir that I can think of. It is fresh, because all the members are under 25. It is wonderfully blended. It is fantastically in tune and very expressive, with a wide range of dynamics, sensitively employed. What does that leave out? Oh yes, balance - and that too is superb. And it has a quite extraordinary flexibility.
Clare Stevens, The Singer

The choir are young sounding, performing Tallis’s music with a concentrated, passionate intensity which impressed me. The sopranos are recognisably female but sing with a lovely, bright, forward, boyish tone ... The Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in the Dorian mode were written for Edward’s reign, for the newly instituted service of Evening Prayer. Like his anthems from the period, the settings are economical and clarity of text is paramount.

This is one of the earliest paired settings of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis and is beautifully crafted. The group’s performances highlight the beautiful simplicity of these pieces ... [all pieces] are lovely, well crafted performances by a choir of young choristers. This youth brings the advantages of clarity of tone and texture.
Robet Hughill, MusicWeb International

I thought that the choir's performance in Charleston during the summer was one of the best choral concerts I have ever attended.
Trevor Weston, Ph. D, Assistant Professor of Music, College of Charleston

Deeply moving and richly satisfying interpretations ... delighted the audience with imaginative programming and set the highest standards in unaccompanied choral performance ... Ralph Allwood, economical of gesture but in total control of every nuance, balance and dynamics.
Eastern Daily Press, Norwich

What a treat it was to hear the wonderful Rodolfus Choir. So expressive, so vibrant, communicating to us listeners as a choir should! So inspiring. If I was a younger man I would be clamouring to join one of the Eton Choral courses and hopefully be chosen to sing with this brilliant choir. What more can I say?