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

BBC NOW's brass section perform Drei Nachtstucke by Schumann arr. Donal Bannister

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Martin James Bartlett - Preparing for Shostakovich's piano concerto

BBC NOW's joyful rendition of 'Simple Gifts'

Classics with NOW: Zemlinsky, 'The Little Mermaid'

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

John Woolrich's Ulysses Awakes _ BBC NOW.mp4

NOW... Make an Instrument: Brilliant Banjo of Joy

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

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