Everything is You (Saxophone Quartet)

“Everything is You” is dramatic yet beautiful ....ineffably lovely...again the idea of rarefied chamber music springs to mind......never uses two notes when one will do. The effect overall is moving without being mawkish, and that’s something that’s all too rare these days.
All about Jazz

"Everything is You" by contemporary composer Paul Englishby, has precision and intellectual rigour.
John L Walters, Guardian

In “Everything Is You,” the lush soprano sax work could reduce a man to tears
Jazz review

 

Marianne Dreams

Wonderfully atmospheric music composed by Paul Englishby, where piano and violin are used to haunting, piercing and sometimes light-hearted effect. Sun.Express

Paul Englishby's lovely music maintains the classy aura
London Evening Standard

 

Merry Wives

Paul Englishby's score is gentle, wistful, romantic, elegant: it doesn’t scream at you, and it perfectly suits a brilliantly confident production by Gregory Doran…. I for one can’t wait for the CD of what is a superb Christmas present to us all from the RSC.”
Sheridan Morley, Express

Merry Wives is a cracker! The songs were sophisticated, but hummable. It gave me everything I need from a trip to the theatre - wit, wisdom and half-remembered snatches of magic melodies. Aphorisms flowed. It was a brilliant cocktail of sophistication and silliness. A kind of vintage champagne ice-cream float.
Alex James, Independent

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Pleasure's Progress

Paul Englishby's music and Alisdair Middleton's libretto create a delicious fusion of 18th- and 21st-century voices......The bawdy is exemplary in its mix of filth and elegance: a love duet invoking the pastoral delights of Squanderfield's "lady garden" blossoms with rococo innuendo. But you never stop hearing the stark, timeless note of Hogarth's satire.
Guardian

Pleasure's Progress – produced by the Royal Opera House's ROH2 – could be billed either as opera or physical satire without telling a lie. The thread that binds them is comedy, of that scarcer-than-scarce variety that produces real belly laughs and an aching jaw. Paul Englishby's score echoes Handelian recitative and arias, while the lyrics undermine its lush and wholesome beauty.... A gorgeously harmon-ised chorus, whose refrain runs "drunk for a penny, dead drunk for tuppence", is sublime.
Independent

Song, speech, live music and dance (even puppets) are used to evoke Hogarth’s ribald characters, brought to life on a simple and flexible set. Alasdair Middleton’s libretto is outrageously saucy (“hung like a hummingbird”) and darkly observant; Paul Englishby’s clever music is bright, buoyant and filled with an underlying sadness.
Times

The Thief of Baghdad

The original music, by Paul Englishby, explores a range of vigorous Eastern styles, but gains authentic bite from improvisation. I loved the way the Turkish duduk was used to underpin the genie's speaking voice, giving it a swooping, supernatural fuzz at the edges.
Independent on Sunday

Paul Englishby’s score, inspired like the dance by the sights and sounds of modern Syria, is flavoured with spice and sweetness.
Times

Paul Englishby's score, with its vibrant, seductive Middle Eastern sonorities is very good, soundpainting the action but carrying the dance passages with a vivid pulse.
Guardian

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

This being a fairy tale, the movie flits from one silly confrontation to the next, it doesn’t waste a moment. Just when you worry that the soap bubble is about to burst, Paul Englishby’s wonderful swing music kicks in.
New York Times