In April 2026 we started posting something new – twice a week a series called ‘I wish I knew that’ – short reference pages to help give context across a range of different topics.
Each topic will appear as per the dates below, published on Thursday and Sunday evenings.
How do we talk about music? (2 April 2026)
Instruments (5 April – 2 July 2026)
- Keyboards (5 – 12 April)
- Strings (16 April – 7 May)
- Woodwind (10 – 24 May)
- Brass (28 May – 7 June)
- Percussion (11 June)
- Voice (14 June – 2 July)
Easy Guide to Harmonising a Melody (5 – 23 July 2026)
Character & Mood in Music (26 July – 4 October 2026)
- Programme Music
- Nature in Music
- Overtures, Tone Poems, & Ballets
- Programme Symphonies
- Lieder, Chansons & English Song
- Music for the Stage
- Music for the Screen
Chamber Music (Dialogues in Instrumental Music) (7 October – 10 December 2026)
- Baroque: Brandenburgs, Concerti Grossi, & Trio Sonatas
- Classical: String Quartets, Piano Trios & others
- Legacy of Beethoven
- The Mendelssohns, the Schumanns, Brahms, and Grieg
- Fauré, Ravel, Debussy and the Fin de siècle
- Chamber Music of the World Wars
- Chamber Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Stuff You Should Know (13 December 2026 – 24 January 2027)
- Music of Ancient Religions,
- Plainsong – monophony to polyphony
- The Tudors and English Polyphony
- The music of San Marco Venice
- Bach and his Cantatas
- Requiems (Victoria, Mozart, Verdi, Fauré and Britten)
- Christian ‘Mystics’
- Global Context
Composer Speed-Dating – the Unfairly Unknown Composers (28 January – 16 December 2027)
- Around 100 composers from A to Z whom you may not have come across before, and an opportunity to get to know them and their works.
The Listening Project Blog 