In the last programme of this year's series,
JEREMY SIEPMANN talks to the pianist
PHILIP FOWKE and the conductor NORMAN DEL MAR , and FRITZ SPIEGL recounts some of the agonies
Beethoven suffered when organising the first performance of the Ninth Symphony. Series producers
RAY ABBOTT , ANDREW LYLE ANDREW MUSSETT
Book, The Henry Wood Proms, a history of the concerts since their beginnings in 1895, by David Cox , £8.75 from booksellers and music shops