Petroc Trelawny with music and arts news, including reviews of two weekend openings: Opera North's production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Arthur Miller 's new play Mr Peter 's Connections in New York.
Music includes Beethoven's Piano
Sonata in A flat, Op 110, played by Alfred Brendel leading up to 7.00; Hoe Down from Copland's Rodeo performed by the New York PO conducted by Leonard Bernstein after the 7.00 news; Gorecki's Totus Tuus sung by the Oxford Schola Cantorum leading up to the 8.00 news; and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the composer at the piano, at 8.50.