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Those set to receive funding include the National Theatre, the Royal Ballet and Southbank Sinfonia and smaller organisations such as the National Youth Orchestra, Stanley Arts and choral ensemble The Sixteen.

Besembaiev's performance was part of a concert by John Wilson's Sinfonia that also included Lili Boulanger's tone-poem D'un matin de printemps, and Walton's First Symphony.

Then, he “fixes” his orchestra, the Sinfonia of London, a project-based ensemble that Wilson revived in 2018, which will appear at the BBC Proms on Sunday.

All this preparation, he said, is to resuscitate the Sinfonia’s sound of old, “a sound in my head which never left me.”

Wilson has a sentimental streak when it comes to his formative influences, and the origin story behind his rejuvenation of the Sinfonia, which disbanded in 2002, is romantic.