The music that started it all

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Gavin Higgins What Wild Ecstasy

What's in Neil Shewan's gig bag?

BBC NOW Brass and Percussion perform Gavin Higgins' Sadly Now the Throstle Sings with Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft

Classics with NOW: Handel, Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 6 No. 6

NOW... Make an Instrument: Kitchen Roll Rainstick

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

BBC NOW and Steven Hudson perform Richard Blackford's The Better Angels Of Our Nature

Drawn to Music - Adams's 'Short Ride in a Fast Machine'

Lenny Sayers’ advice on performing and self-belief