"Revelatory" BBC Music Magazine

"Definitive" The Guardian

"visionary" CD Review

"Hushed and flawless Bach..." The Observer

"He not only brings that dedicated scholarly view of
playing characterisitc of period instrument specialists, but he plays with such huge commitment.He is a great inspiration to me, 
especially in Mozart." 
Sir Charles Mackerras, BBC Music Magazine

"...admirable continuo and solo cellist and now also a conductor"
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Music in the Castle of Heaven

"Watkin's tastes are catholic....[he has] a passionate belief in the juxtaposition of scholarship and musicianship"
Grove Dictionary of Music

Portrait by Roman Rabinovich: