I HAVE a few comments following the ESO's Mozart/Beethoven concert last Friday evening.

Who thinks it is a good idea to let latecomers into a concert in the middle of a movement in a concerto? Was the orchestra under-rehearsed for this concert? There were to many sub-standard elements to justify the £19 charge which we paid.

Why was there such limited information about the edition of the score of the Eroica in the programme. It did not appear to resemble the one I have heard many times on the radio, nor that of the recording in my own collection.

Was there any element of co-ordination between those organising the Christmas lights event in Church Street and the management of the Theatres? I have never seen such a crush and congestion like it in Malvern. I marvel that we made it before the start of the concert!

I have been attending ESO concerts regularly for 15 years and this was the roughest, lowest quality effort I have yet seen. I sincerely hope their all-Beethoven concert in February 2006 will be of a much higher standard? If not, I will only be supporting them at future Elgar festivals.

IAN MORGAN, Meadow Road, Malvern Link.