A year-by-year guide (continued)

are published in BBC Music Magazine for readers to perform themselves.

April 2015 Writer Rick Jones dresses up in a tweed suit and moustache, mounts an ancient Sunbeam bicycle and heads round the roads of Worcestershire in the tyre tracks of Elgar (left).

May 2016 BBC Music contributor Stephen Johnson, who is also a composer, shares his ten-year diary of seeing his orchestral work Behemoth Dances develop from first idea to premiere performance. Christmas 2017 Leading wine expert Oz Clarke (above) is invited to select 12 alcoholic drinks for us to match to different pieces of music. With an office full of bottles, we take the research process very seriously. February 2018 The editorial team gathers in the studio for the first of our monthly podcasts, complete with specially commissioned choral jingles. June 2019 As we celebrate the genius of composer and pianist Clara Schumann, our ‘The Greatest Schumann’ pun on the cover is not appreciated by all.

April 2020 With Covid gripping the UK, the BBC Music Magazine office lies empty. The June issue is the first to be produced entirely from home.

October 2021 Shortly after cellist

Julian Lloyd Webber has celebrated his 70th birthday on our Music To My Ears podcast, brother Andrew calls for a return to live music in our cover interview. March 2022 As new editor Charlotte Smith joins the good ship BBC Music, deputy editor Jeremy Pound and five friends head out into the rain to walk the 35-mile Gustav Holst Way.