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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

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

Fairytales & Fantasy

Lenny Sayers’ advice on performing and self-belief

Dowland Songs with James Gilchrist

Composition: Wales 2025 - Composer, Harry Rees

Valerie Aldrich-Smith's "Baguette Theory"...

BBC NOW perform Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances

Classics with NOW: Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 1 in G minor, 'Winter Dreams'

Alice Neary and BBC NOW perform Tchaikovsky's Andante cantabile

Peter Warlock's Capriol Suite

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

Donal Bannister and the BBC NOW brass perform Thoughts of Love by Arthur Pryor arr. Donal Bannister