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BBC NOW and Carolin Widmann perform Michael Zev Gordon's Violin Concerto

Wales in Germany: Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 4

Chris Stock's top tips for percussionists

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NOW... Make an Instrument: Brilliant Banjo of Joy

BBC NOW and Joseph Swensen perform Four Movements for Orchestra by Nielsen orchestrated by Joseph Swensen

Classics with NOW: Mendelssohn, Incidental music from A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Principal Trumpet, Philippe Schartz, explains what he admires about Tadaaki Otaka