Violinist Rachel Podger couldn’t be bettered as an embodiment of the joy of making music.

She's a bottle of pop, seeming almost to fall over with enthusiasm towards the end of this appearance with her Brecon Baroque ensemble. The heel of a shoe had come off, an event incorporated into an engaging platform manner that starchier individuals could usefully adopt.

The music itself was seriously made, though with her at the helm it was infectious in its determination to be outgoing. Small matters of intonation come with the baroque territory.

Just seven musicians performing an all-J. S. Bach programme of concerti - eight in the C minor Double Concerto (BWV 1060) with oboist Alexandra Bellamy sharing the solo matter with Ms Podger - carried no baggage. Assigning one to each orchestral part is the extreme reduction of the baroque band and offers liberation tempered by heavy responsibility.

It made for a rich and animated interplay of voices, the miracle of which in the violin concerti in A minor (BWV 1041) and E (BWV 1042) was that Ms Podger's solo line was integral to it without losing any of the musician's native livelinesss.

In the Concerto for Oboe d'Amore in A (BWV 1055), Ms Bellamy made sterling effort to plead its case in comparison with the brighter tone of the baroque oboe proper of the double concerto, and Marcin Swiatkiewicz in the D Minor Harpsichord Concerto (BWV 1052) was given plenty of room to articulate audibly.

An auspicious opening for Wye Valley Music’s June series of concerts