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

Martin James Bartlett - Preparing for Shostakovich's piano concerto

Classics with NOW: Strauss, 'Also sprach Zarathustra'

Thomas Søndergård: what the papers say

BBC NOW perform Peteris Vasks' Cantabile

Strauss' Four Songs op.27

NOW... Make an Instrument: Hosepipe French Horn

Classics with NOW: Franck, Symphony in D minor

Sosban Fach (klezmer style) by Lenny Sayers

Classics with NOW: Ravel, 'Bolero'

BBC NOW perform Bartok's Divertimento