PRIZE CROSSWORD NO. 324

ACROSS

1 Jazz fans backing another over detached playing style (8) 5 School provided fellow cellist (6) 10 Violin carried by dramatist (5) 11 Established Church accepting Greek composer mostly promoting the Gospel (9) 12 Appreciation of music etc. is alien in this case, possibly (10) 13 Early opera composer I associated with heart of opera (4) 15 US composer unexpectedly sent in after Austrian composer failed to finish (9)

16 Some allegrettos tickle Anglo-italian composer (5)

17 In short, it leaves a way to identify piece (5)

19 Various clans around three islands start to enjoy island dances (9) 22 British pianist heads for East Lincolnshire Musical Society (4) 23 Reverse everything, dismissing the players of records? (10)

26 Italian composer: a pretty boy in Italy (9)

27 Passion in a note provided by German (5)

28 See 3 down

29 One prophesying bad things for symphony by 15 (8)

DOWN

1 Overture by 15 is ultimately hot stuff! (5)

2 One who accrues a work by 15 with hesitation (7)

3/28 Arrangement of classic harp themes, excluding a piece by 15 (10,6)

4 Soothing comment around a tense venue for opera? (7) 6 Contemporary of 15 to get on with contralto (4)

7 Complaint is about lines given to new English soprano (7)

8 Ballet by 15 mostly to be challenged by comparison (9) 9 Is able to preserve dance (6)

14 One with a talent I exploited

– that covers one such as 21 (10) 15 G&S character caught coming in to employ flattery (9)

18 Musical time, mostly a time that’s material for artists (7)

19 Recording venue is not entirely Tudor in construction (6)

20 4 work by 15, performed with staff around (7)

21 Everybody, say, beginning to relish one Italian composer (7) 24 Mezzo Connolly has turned up about a role initially (5)

25 Verdi villain was, unusually, role model at first (4)

The first correct solution of our crossword to be picked at random will win a copy of The Oxford Companion to Music and a runner-up will win Who Knew? Answers to Questions about Classical Music (both available at oup.co.uk). Send answers to: BBC Music Magazine, Crossword 324/Sept, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 6 Sept 2018 (solution in Dec 2018 issue).