"The orchestra contains glorious individual players.... in [Angela] Hewitt's Bach, the orchestra breathed as one and engaged in harmonious dialogue with a remarkable soloist"

"Riveting playing of two towering masterpieces"

"stunning enactment of [Beethoven's] Fifth Symphony"

"... 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"

"In little more than the 18 months since its debut the Oxford Philomusica, under its music director Marios Papadopoulos, has established a reputation as one of the country's top orchestras..."

"Beethoven's Choral Symphony so memorably performed in a packed Sheldonian Theatre by the Oxford Philomusica... The performance of this monumental work had the Sheldonian audience spellbound..."

"...playing of the greatest warmth and tenderness"

"...a musical resource for the city and beyond"