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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. Thibaut Garcia - Learning and life on the road
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    Thibaut Garcia - Learning and life on the road
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  3. BBC NOW Brass and Percussion perform Gavin Higgins' Sadly Now the Throstle Sings with Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft
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    BBC NOW Brass and Percussion perform Gavin Higgins' Sadly Now the Throstle Sings with Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft
  4. Classics with NOW: Haydn, 'Sinfonia concertante in B-flat major'
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    Classics with NOW: Haydn, 'Sinfonia concertante in B-flat major'
  5. Classics with NOW - Mahler, Symphony No 5
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    Classics with NOW - Mahler, Symphony No 5
  6. Discover More/Darganfod Mwy:Verdi & Respighi
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    Discover More/Darganfod Mwy:Verdi & Respighi
  7. Martin James Bartlett - Preparing for Shostakovich's piano concerto
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    Martin James Bartlett - Preparing for Shostakovich's piano concerto
  8. Classics with NOW: Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 in B minor, 'Pathétique'
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    Classics with NOW: Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 in B minor, 'Pathétique'
  9. Laura Sinnerton on practising difficult passages
    01:56
    Laura Sinnerton on practising difficult passages
  10. Spotlight On: Anna Cleworth
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    Spotlight On: Anna Cleworth
  11. Classics with NOW: Augusta Holmès, ‘Roland Furieux’
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    Classics with NOW: Augusta Holmès, ‘Roland Furieux’
  12. BBC NOW perform the World Premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth's Five Waltzes
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    BBC NOW perform the World Premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth's Five Waltzes
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