The music that started it all

BBC NOW perform Peteris Vasks' Cantabile

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

James Mayhew paints 'Mars' from Holst's The Planets

Discover More: Jon James Introduces Bartók's Final Concerto

Laura Sinnerton on practising difficult passages

Coleridge-Taylor, Four Novelletten

I Am What I Am

BBC NOW perform Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

Ryan Bancroft - Our new Principal Conductor

Composition: Wales 2025 - Composer, Nicholas Olsen

Jac Van Steen - Reflections after a day of rehearsal