What the papers said:

...a welcome reminder of the sterling qualities of The Apostles, Elgar's second oratorio. Here the dividends are admittedly undramatic and rather widely spaced, but patience is handsomely rewarded by the revelatory final pages
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

Oramo stressed the point that this complex oratorio is as much about doubt as about faith, offsetting moments of mystic serenity with the psychological agony of Judas (James Rutherford) and the remorse of Mary Magdalene (Catherine Wyn-Rogers, on superb form). The playing and choral singing were exceptional. Having long been an Elgar sceptic, I confess to being blown away, which is the highest complement I can pay it.
THE GUARDIAN

In the final ten minutes of The Apostles, Oramo created a hushed recessional in which past and present, time and eternity, the individual and the mass, are caught up in a great crescendo of harmonic transfiguration. The fine CBS Chorus had been trained by Simon Halsey to be word-bright and watchful throughout.
THE TIMES