PAIGNTON'S splendid Oldway Mansion provided the perfect visual setting for Devon Baroque's Tenth Anniversary Concert, even if the rather dry acoustic contributed little to the overall sound.

Originally written for a royal wedding, Johan Roman's Little Drottningholm Music afforded an ideal concert-opener and was despatched with suitable panache.

Zoe Shevlin gave an impressive performance of Johann Fasch's Bassoon Concerto in C, making light work of the tricky coloratura passages in the outer movements, and producing as generous a tone as possible in the middle Largo.

Albinoni's Concerto in C for Two Oboes was undoubtedly the concert highlight, where Rachel Baldock and Leo Duarte managed a quite superb performance, both in terms of impeccable ensemble and unanimity in individual phrasing, all complemented by a most sympathetic accompaniment crafted by director Margaret Faultless.

Reinmar Seidler gave a compelling reading of Lanzetti's Cello Concerto in F, coping well in the main with the high tessitura of the writing, and leaving Bach's First Orchestral Suite to close a most enjoyable concert, by way of summing up 10 successful years of music-making so far. Coming at the end of a demanding weekend's playing, perhaps the performance occasionally lacked that cutting edge in terms of absolute precision and pure joie de vivre, although this could be easily explained by the shortage of rehearsal time and some unavoidable personnel changes on this occasion.