Crossword and Quiz

ACROSS

8 Wind instruments providing dance music at sea (8)

9 Has broken most of baton

– the remains to be deposited here (3-3)

10 Say word in French about note in Beethoven overture (6)

11 Audibly observes headland in

La mer, say (8)

12 Very active one working for record label (8)

13 BBC release follows article (6) 14 Attempt story about overtures from Cimarosa and Korngold (6)

16 Tease about recording from legendary Strauss figure? (6) 18 Name of German composer as used abroad (6)

20 People bargaining with ticket touts? That woman’s holding silver and odd bits of gold (8)

22 Words for operas left one with Britten, endlessly struggling (8)

23 Contributor to performance

I’ll ensure’s recalled – Melba? (6) 24 Mocking comment about origins of some terrible Rigoletto? (6)

25 Hold back arrangement of

the Satie (8)

DOWN

1 Electronic instrument zooms with this energy running wild (4,11)

2 Piece at end of concert:

French in essence (6)

3 Trio disturbed equipment

set up by large punk fan (4,4) 4 Justification regarding a

lyric being cut short (6) 5 Piano manufacturer may

upset Norwegian band (6) 6 No chance to change

musical form (8)

7 String players carrying arrangement of orchids for keyboard players (15) 15 Soprano singers given a role – no good avoiding assessment (8)

17 Church instrument is source

of my being (8)

19 Says contralto should keep

clear of knives? (6)

20 Pitch of Handel’s opening

octave (6)

21 Shchedrin opera: see French

article about it (6)