The BBC Music Magazine PRIZE CROSSWORD NO. 397

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 397/April 2024, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 16 Apr 2024 (solution in July 2024 issue).

ACROSS

1 Rossini’s birthplace, where operas will be restaged (6)

4 Various toccatas played with detached notes (8)

10 Mostly new arrangement for clarinet, lacking length, bearing fruit (9) 11 Chamber group number subsequently ignored by Times (5)

12 American composer involved in machinery used to pen note (5,7) 15 Shortage overlooked at first – it’s missing from The Planets (5) 17 Composer, merely drunk, putting away litre (ale) (9)

19 Upset etc. over interrupting Debussy piece – by one such? (4-5)

22 Elgarian speciality marking a month (5)

23 Downturns in sound suggesting soccer’s ended possibly (12) 27 Violin-making family – leaders in absolutely marvellous and tremendous instruments (5)

28 Song by 12 about Rhode Island adopted by promoter? (9)

29 Opera, ugly, without overture, excited member of audience (4-4)

30 Piano, and French exponent thereof, recalled contribution to

Rolls-royce performance (6)

DOWN

1 Italian composer’s arrangement of Chopin - end of piece badly twisted (10) 2 Alternative tempo that’s not very good? (6-4)

3 Money to study musicology at last (5) 5 Later upset about contralto’s delivery, ultimately sickly sweet? (7)

6 Chamber orchestra initially with sister on percussion provides a puzzle (9) 7 Live, introducing new

English composer (4)

8 Klemperer, say, whichever way you look at it (4)

9 Win over doctor upset about arrangement of airs (6)

13 Excellent example by Verdi, possibly? More like a character from Bizet (5-5) 14 Chart loser, possibly, like most symphonic music (10)

16 Alternating notes in first of hits, heading high but missing No. 1 (9) 18 Extract from the Vespers the night before (3)

20 I’m gripped by simple energy shown by creator of Carmen (7)

21 British pianist became prominent after acquiring company (6)

24 Odesa’s conductor – noble figure linked to heart of Odesa (5)

25 Instrument a semitone high?

Not at first (4)

26 Newspaper taking on a form of

Indian music (4)