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there – and at the Royal Festival Hall, and a few in the Cadogan Hall where, given its size, we will concentrate more on smaller Classical repertoire.”

It’s a tall order for Petrenko, which he should be well up for. The experience he has gained with the Oslo Phil, both its triumphs and its frustrations, together with his 15 years pioneering community development in Liverpool, will stand him in good stead, he says. “The more you do, the more experience you get. There will be new things to learn, but I’m ready for that.”

If Thursday’s Prokofiev is comparable to the one I heard in Oslo, Edinburgh’s audience is in for a rare treat. He has made the Oslo Phil his own. And any RPO fans, looking for a taster of what is to come in London, should be getting very excited.