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The music that started it all
Hear the pieces our players first fell in love with!
  1. The music that started it all
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    The music that started it all
  2. Warlock's The Curlew
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    Warlock's The Curlew
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  3. Composition: Wales 2025 - Composer, Michael Triggs
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    Composition: Wales 2025 - Composer, Michael Triggs
  4. Mansel Thomas
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    Mansel Thomas
  5. BBC NOW perform Peteris Vasks' Cantabile
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    BBC NOW perform Peteris Vasks' Cantabile
  6. Principal Trumpet, Philippe Schartz, explains what he admires about Tadaaki Otaka
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    Principal Trumpet, Philippe Schartz, explains what he admires about Tadaaki Otaka
  7. Gavin Higgins What Wild Ecstasy
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    Gavin Higgins What Wild Ecstasy
  8. Classics with NOW: Bartók, 'The Miraculous Mandarin'
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    Classics with NOW: Bartók, 'The Miraculous Mandarin'
  9. Passion of Youth - Alice talks passion
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    Passion of Youth - Alice talks passion
  10. Mozart Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter'
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    Mozart Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter'
  11. The homes of BBC NOW / Cartrefi'r gerddorfa
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    The homes of BBC NOW / Cartrefi'r gerddorfa
  12. Amy Dickson - The Classical Playlist experience
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    Amy Dickson - The Classical Playlist experience
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