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Supernatural visitations haunt this evening, both inspired and conducted by the celebrated Marin Alsop. Sir James MacMillan composed his colourful Woman of the Apocalypse for Alsop's own festival in Cabrillo, California. It evokes the mystical appearance of an angelic woman at times of crisis. Judith Bingham's dramatic oboe concerto, The Angel of Mons, depicts just such a shimmering vision, this time at the Battle of Mons, performed by the peerless Nicholas Daniel. It is the 'inscrutable predesintation of fate' that haunts Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, transforming tragedy to triumph.