When your lips are the key to your career

What does it really take to build a career as a professional composer?

Classics with NOW: Rachmaninov, ‘Symphonic Dances’

Classics with NOW: Strauss, 'An Alpine Symphony'

Classics with NOW: Brahms, 'Schicksalslied'

Classics with NOW: Fanny Mendelssohn, Three a cappella Choruses

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

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

Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings

BBC NOW and Mark Lewis Jones perform the world premiere of Alexander Goehr's The Master Said

NOW... Make an Instrument: Bangy Twangy Thing