The advantage of staging the 10-day Mozartfest in Bath Abbey is that it is at the very heart of the town. It is a drawback, though, that the abbey's reverberant acoustic, so atmospheric in sacred work, doesn't always suit other scenarios.

Raymond Leppard conducted the London Mozart Players in a performance that, though superficially a model of refinement and taste, was distinctly anaemic. Leppard's approach to Mozart's Jupiter Symphony was understated, with little overt thematic characterisation. In the finale, things began to take off when he injected a much greater sense of driven energy. But the clarity so essential to the intricate contrapuntal writing was simply not achievable in the abbey, and the triumph of the final bars was inevitably compromised.

The teenage Mozart wrote his Exultate, Jubilate for Venanzio Rauzzini, first a brilliant castrato and then a composer. Since Rauzzini made his home in Bath - the abbey has his memorial stone - the motet had a particular association here. The pure, gentle soprano of Catherine Bott did not project itself quite as brightly as the music required; her Zaïde aria, Ruhe Sanft, Mein Holdes Leben, had more passion, but Bott did herself no favours - nor the audience either - in delivering her final aria, Voi Avete un Cor Fedele, like a silly young girl.

Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony came as something of a relief after such vapidity, yet even this turned out to be a bit bloodless. Only Leppard's beautifully phrased but unsentimental Andante seemed to communicate directly. This was an evening that lacked something vital.

· The Bath Mozartfest continues until Sunday. Details: 01225 429750.