BBC NOW perform de Falla's El Retablo de Maese Pedro

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

Classics with NOW: Massenet, Suite No. 3 'Scènes Dramatiques'

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

Classics with NOW: Bach, 'Jesu, meine Freude'

Gavin Higgins What Wild Ecstasy

Clarinettist Robert Plane shares his favourite memories with Tadaaki Otaka

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Meeting other composers is invaluable

Sosban Fach (klezmer style) by Lenny Sayers