Soprano Lucy Crowe singing Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate was the highlight that started the second week of the Proms – beautifully shaped runs, the lightest ornaments and a top C that crowned the performance like a gentle kiss. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment sounded as if they had indeed achieved enlightenment and the rest of the concert – Haydn’s Mass in Time of War, Fauré’s Requiem, etc. – with help from the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, sped by on a wave of pleasure.

Nothing sped though like Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis the following night, dispatched by Manchester’s finest under Gianandrea Noseda. The impact of velocity was clearly his intention as he determined not to allow the great weight of sound, the hammering rhythms and the pages of fortissimo singing, to become bogged down.