The BBC Music Magazine PRIZE CROSSWORD NO. 360

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 360/Jun, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 10 June 2021 (solution in Sept issue).

ACROSS

1/24 Name is recalled by friend and foe as I reviewed Panufnik work (8,2,5) 6 Belgian singer’s tour’s finale, seen in nearly half of Belgium (4)

10 Callas busy around a venue for opera (2,5)

11 Dance recording found behind old home (3-4)

12 Bits of Handel usefully arranged in reverse? Well done! (5)

13 Beatles classic certainly ready for revision after brief time (9)

14 Group of operas mistakenly relying on involving a couple of contraltos? (4,5) 17 A new movement is a caper (5) 19 German conductor some other US maestro recalled (5)

20 See 15 down

22 Spanish operettas the US represented with razzle? (9)

25 The point of the Amfortas wound? (5) 26 Silly to include start of reprise after second note – here’s a new version (7)

27 Alice upset about – say – description of Rachmaninov trios? (7) 28 A percussion instrument, not new, gets you excited (4)

29 Polish virtuoso praised Kew when travelling (10)

DOWN

1 Beginning to use left hand around piano? Almost certain to capture that element (7)

2 Implication of freedom, as in wind

or brass quintet? (2,7)

3 Japanese conductor in Australia,

all but some way off (5)

4 Home to much opera, I reckon,

but not a source of lieder (5) 5 Tear observed, we hear – event

partway through opera? (4-5) 7 Assessed content of opera

‘tedious’ (5)

8 Singing on TV, say, left one piano

to subside audibly (3-4)

9 Tense broadcast of Alceste

– as seen on TV? (8)

15/20a Instrumental technique in

cabaret luring rich astray (8,9) 16 Small group with two tenors interrupting each conclusion of aria (9)

18 Feature of Musorgsky’s Pictures?

Arranged it with leisure (9) 19 Obscurity about first and last

characters on a dance (7) 21 Energy, half reckless, I observed

in composer (7)

23 Took a trip, going to old

Copland ballet (5)

24 See 1 across

25 Alfvén, say, amongst composers

we’d enjoyed (5)