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Music Feature Wandering Minstrels

The story of the orchestra who gave the first ever concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
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Twenty Minutes Your First 1812

Children from Amersham Music Centre prepare to perform Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
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Twenty Minutes Bittersweet Symphony

Louise Fryer investigates the inspiration behind Walton's powerful First Symphony.
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Symphony Question Time 30/11/2011

Long-lost fragments of Sibelius's Eighth, and feedback about the question of applause.
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Symphony Question Time 25/11/2011

Sue Perkins and Tom Service on the relevance of the symphony in the 21st century.

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