The Elevator Pitch: Alun Hoddinott

Ryan Bancroft - Our new Principal Conductor

Martin James Bartlett - Preparing for Shostakovich's piano concerto

Laura Sinnerton on practising difficult passages

Sosban Fach (klezmer style) by Lenny Sayers

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

BBC NOW Schools Workshop

Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings

BBC NOW perform Ravel's complete ballet music to Ma Mère l'Oye

Lift Off

BBC NOW perform Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Meeting other composers is invaluable