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Composition: Wales 2025 - Composer, Nicholas Olsen

Composition: Wales 2025 - Composer, William Cox

Passion of Youth - Alice talks passion

Classical Playlist: Live - The highlights

BBC Proms - Tuning up behind stage

Six Counties Youth Concert - Rehearsal to encore

Ryan Bancroft - Our new Principal Conductor

Jonny Greenwood – Rehearsing for the Proms

Jac Van Steen - Reflections after a day of rehearsal

Jonathon Heyward - Becoming a conductor

Thibaut Garcia - Learning and life on the road

Discover More: Jon James Introduces Schubert 9

Xian Zhang - Principal Guest Conductor / Prif Arweinydd Gwadd

Fairytales & Fantasy

BBC 100 - Lisa Tregale

Classics with NOW: Grieg, 'Holberg Suite'

Alice Neary and BBC NOW perform Tchaikovsky's Andante cantabile

Classics with NOW: Beethoven, Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral'

BBC NOW perform Haydn Symphony No. 90 with Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft

Meeting other composers is invaluable

BBC NOW and Mark Lewis Jones perform the world premiere of Alexander Goehr's The Master Said

Alice Neary and Jess Feaver - The Swan

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

Drawn to Music: Copland, Appalachian Spring