The BBC Music Magazine PRIZE CROSSWORD NO. 338

The first correct solution of our crossword picked at random will win a copy of The Oxford Companion to Music. A runnerup will win Who Knew? Answers to Questions about Classical Music (see www.oup.co.uk). Send answers to: BBC Music Magazine, Crossword 338/Oct, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 2 Oct 2019 (solution in Xmas 2019 issue).

ACROSS

1 Led Zeppelin frontman put

in place (5)

4 After conclusion of Berlioz, broadcast my lines about work by Mozart and another composer (9)

9 Alma Mahler, as a child, in school in Germany, left with little hesitation (9)

10 Uncertain extract of Donizetti

(mid-opera) (5)

11 Amplify variation in general (7)

12 The Sleeping Beauty princess

left about dawn (7)

13 Soprano escaping gunman,

giving alarm? (6)

15 Charles about to receive US

composer (8)

18 Hot performer ultimately in

contemporary setting (8)

19 US composer mostly supported

by a guiding light (6)

21 Crazy about Cher’s release?

Moved to the best (7)

22 Band’s latest – and more

peculiar – percussionist (7)

24 Soprano I brought in to study is

young member of family (5)

25 Relax – thin glue repaired

piano (7,2)

26 Caught finale in wild score,

increasing in volume (9)

27 Slow movement advanced,

nothing more (5)

DOWN

1 Ballet leap: had a step arranged around start of

Coppelia (3,2,4)

2 I co-authored film that’s taken apart oratorio (1,5,2,3,4) 3 A meaningful singer? (5)

4 Operetta composer heading for Zurich, always penning lines (6)

5 Bernstein heroine, mostly smart Hispanic musician (8)

6 Playing red lute in entr’acte (9) 7 Ensure mini music broadcast presents old song (5,2,6,2)

8 Poem in your language primarily mountain music (5)

14 Revolutionary wind instrument China redesigned? Revelatory (9) 16 Very French piano possessed by Italian composer? Not so much (3,6)

17 Bloke, variety of idol, with new stringed instrument (8) 20 A celebration about a US soldier is musically slow (6)

21 Greek character faithfully represented subject of this magazine (5)

23 Up to some contrappunti lately (5)