RYEDALE's unique triple concert has become one of the festival’s highlights, with variety to satisfy all tastes.

It brought together the cellist Pieter Wispelwey, the Choir of York Minster under Robert Sharpe, and a three bright talents in Ravel’s Piano Trio. All played in different parts of the building, with the tripartite audience rotating between them.

In the Chapel, Wispelwey devoted his 1760 Guadagnini to the last and longest of Bach’s solo cello suites, No 6 in D major. Wispelwey is a superb technician, but his nonchalance came to seem almost flippant and some of the complications were glossed in the name of effect rather than strict accuracy. However there was still pleasure in hearing Bach’s different voices emerge from a single source.

This is a good time of year for the Choir of York Minster, here all male apart from a lone female alto. The choir loses its best trebles in four days’ time when term ends. So it’s at its peak just now.

Three Tudor Latin motets and a verse anthem by Tomkins were delivered beautifully in the Great Hall, but in a more or less unvarying mezzo forte. There was much more shading in Stanford’s Justorum Animae and, after a Bairstow miniature, the sweeping lines of Harris’s Bring Us, O Lord God were ravishing.

In the Long Gallery two British stars, the violinist Jack Liebeck and the cellist Guy Johnston, were teamed with the French pianist Amandine Savary in Ravel’s A minor Trio. Arguably the strings did not fully share the pianist’s joie de vivre. But it was sensuous right from the start. In Pantoum, all three seemed ready to pounce in the excitement, and the finale built into a sparkling Mediterranean climax. A perfect end to the evening.