"The orchestra, now three years old, contains
glorious individual players....
in [Angela] Hewitt's Bach, the orchestra breathed as one and engaged in
harmonious dialogue with a remarkable soloist" (The Times)
"Riveting playing of two towering masterpieces" (Oxford Times)
"stunning enactment of [Beethoven's] Fifth Symphony" (Oxford Times)
"... a packed audience obviously agreed that
[the Messiah performance] must have been
one of the most effective and enjoyable events in the long history of the
Sheldonian" (Oxford Times)