The music that started it all

Composition: Wales 2025 - Composer, Nicholas Olsen

Composition: Wales 2025 - Composer, William Cox

Passion of Youth - Alice talks passion

Classical Playlist: Live - The highlights

BBC Proms - Tuning up behind stage

Six Counties Youth Concert - Rehearsal to encore

Jonny Greenwood – Rehearsing for the Proms

Jac Van Steen - Reflections after a day of rehearsal

Jonathon Heyward - Becoming a conductor

Thibaut Garcia - Learning and life on the road

Discover More: Jon James Introduces Schubert 9

Fairytales & Fantasy

Coleridge-Taylor, Four Novelletten

Classics with NOW: Morfydd Owen, 'Morfa Rhuddlan'

Classics with NOW: Schumann, 'Overture, Scherzo and Finale'

Principal Trumpet, Philippe Schartz, explains what he admires about Tadaaki Otaka

Conductor Irwin Hoffman

Composition: Wales 2025 - Composer, Gwydion Rhys

BBC NOW and Carolin Widmann perform Michael Zev Gordon's Violin Concerto

Adrian Partington - Preparing the Chorus for Brahms

Classics with NOW: Grieg, 'Holberg Suite'

BBC NOW's joyful rendition of 'Simple Gifts'