The BBC Music Magazine PRIZE CROSSWORD NO. 384

The first correct solution of our crossword picked at random will win a copy of

The Oxford Companion to Music.a runner-up will win Who Knew? Answers to Questions about Classical Music (see oup.co.uk). Send answers to: BBC Music Magazine, Crossword 384/Apr 2023, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 18 Apr 2023 (solution in July 2023 issue).

ACROSS

1 Composer’s harmonic changes covering a new version (11)

8 Unwell during broadcast of severe morning fanfares? (9)

9 Unstable, like some popular music? (5)

10 Look to interrupt opening dance (5)

11 Successor to Macbeth rebuilt clan’s door (3,6)

12 Run to meet doctor into playing piano: a Chopin prelude (8)

14 Character in Ullmann opera seria broadcast after end of week (6)

16 A French version of Cats, with roles to be assigned? (6)

18 A Roman Catholic Mass unexpectedly following special Prokofiev opus (8)

21 One checking accounts backed excellent concert-halls (9)

22 Bass, flat, but not initially oblique (5)

24 African guitar went down second in WOMAD (5)

25 Minor Tosca character carries on foolishly (9)

26 Infestation upset musical group (11)

DOWN

1 Composer left after wild party with music (5)

2 Choir, with unusual pride, sang like birds (7)

3 Reed organ, peculiar model, one that’s working (8)

4 Never perform in a choir, being sniffy? (6)

5 Rock band’s leading position in Iran, surprisingly (7)

6 Sings, viol cases being misplaced (9)

7 Heroine of musical: traveller taking tea? Not I (5,4,3)

8 French composer argued scores should be revised (5-7)

13 Contralto and I swamped by requisitions for events (9)

15 Violinist considered unholy in Italy? (8)

17 Not what you’d expect the Prommers to do? (3,4)

19 Jazz fan embracing nude in Broadway musical (7)

20 Pause in playing during musical work, setting up fast movement (6) 23 Six taken to initially operate the French instrument (5)

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