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Composition: Wales 2025 - Composer, Nicholas Olsen

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Passion of Youth - Alice talks passion

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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

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Fairytales & Fantasy

Y Gelynnen (The Holly Tree) - Performed by BBC NOW from home

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Ten Pieces Concert

BBC 100 - Ryan Bancroft

The Fantastic French Horn

Boris Brott

Drawn to Music - Storm Interlude from Britten's 'Peter Grimes'

Celia Craig – Judith Weir’s new Oboe Concerto

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

Drawn to Music: Adams, Chamber Symphony Mvt 2 'Aria with Walking Bass'