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Brighter days … a visitor to London’s Southbank this month. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock Brighter days … a visitor to London’s Southbank this month. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock Tue 25 May 2021 09.24 EDT Last modified on Tue 25 May 2021 09.51 EDT Perhaps not right at the top of the list of the things that most people remember about 2020 is the fact that it was the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. But on the afternoon of Sunday 16 March 2020, I was in my seat in the Royal Festival Hall for a mammoth Beethoven birthday concert. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra were re-enacting Beethoven’s famous 1808 marathon performance. Unlike the 1808 concert, by all accounts a chaotic affair in a freezing cold theatre with an under-rehearsed orchestra, Salonen’s performance was brilliantly polished and the heating was on in the RFH. But the concert was haunted by a sense that the world was about to change. In the words

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