Petroc Trelawny with music and news from the arts world, including a review of the eagerly awaited Broadway musical Rent, which opened last night at London's
Shaftesbury Theatre. Music includes Ravel's Valses Nobles et
Sentimentales played by pianist Joanna MacGregor at 6.40;
Saint-Saens's Danse Macabre played by the Pittsburgh SO, conductor Lorin Maazel , at 7.05; and the final trio from Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier performed by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Christa Ludwig and Teresa Stich-Randall at 8.20, with Karajan directing the Berlin Philharmonic.