Petroc Trelawny with music and arts news, including reviews of the D'Oyly Carte production of The Mikado at the Royal Festival Hall, and of the New York Theatre Workshop's production of Eugene O'Neill 's play More Stately Mansions. Music includes Dvorak's Silent Woods played by Yo-Yo Ma (cello) and the Berlin Philharmonic, conductor
Lorin Maazel , after the 6.00 news; Satie's
Gnossiennes played by pianist Pascal Roge at 7.15; and Mendelssohn's Overture for Wind
Instruments played by members of the London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado , at 8.05.