Stephanie Hughes with music and arts news, including a report on the first-ever Australian performance of Wagner's Ring cycle. Music includes at 6.30 Haydn's Variations in F minor, H XVII 6, performed by pianist Mikhail Pletnev ; at 7.15 Honegger's Pacific 231 played by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit ; and after the 8.00 news a Scarlatti piano sonata played by Vladimir Horowitz.