You have all heard of road rage, now let me tell you about concert hall rage.

It is triggered by the stupidity of Dome staff admitting latecomers halfway through a performance of a Beethoven masterpiece.

Not content with asking these latecomers to stand or take a seat at the back of the auditorium, this particular steward insisted on clodhopping his latecomers the length of the concert hall to take their seats at the front, destroying a magnificent spell cast by the orchestra and the Kungsbacka Piano Trio during their reading of Beethoven's Triple Concerto.

Normally, it would just have been irritating. On this occasion, the work happens to be, for personal reasons, my favourite piece and a Desert Island Disc choice. To have it so rudely interrupted in the middle of its two movements, turning a 30-second pause into a three-minute wait, was unforgivable.

I just wonder how the members of the orchestra, the piano trio and conductor Barry Wordsworth must have felt at this intrusion in the middle of the opening piece of the first concert of their new season.

The trio and the orchestra gave an immaculate reading of the work, full of optimism, colour and joy although, for me, the second movement was spoiled by my seething rage.

The second work of the afternoon was Gustav Mahler's first symphony, Titan, a work I felt may have been too big for the orchestra. But I need not have worried as maestro Wordsworth and his players put on an exuberant display, bringing out once again the full colour and joy of Mahler's creation.