Sussex Symphony Orchestra was founded ten years ago this month.

It has gone from giving the odd concert at Brighton's St Bartholomew's Church and Hove Town Hall to providing music in many parts of the county.

To mark its tenth anniversary, the SSO pulled out all the stops with a performance of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

It was a huge work and tested the orchestra to its full. Earlier, the orchestra gave an excellent reading of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite, providing lots of colour and was way above my expectations.

The orchestra's account of Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto was just too robust, at times threatening to drown out soloist Kristian Belliere.

I had to remind myself this was a concerto and not a competition, requiring more co-operation than combat.

Greater subtlety and more precision here would have allowed the full Romanticism of this lovely work.

However, this is a group of players which cannot be faulted for their exuberance and drive.