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BBC Music Magazine April 2012

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ACROSS

1          Surprisingly I co-authored film and oratorio (1,5,2,3,4)

9          Percussion instrument left in grottoes (6)

10        Cheerful listeners accepting piano in periods before study (3,5)

11        Character in Barber: operatic role for Chico Marx? (8)

12        Former BBC official accounting for nearly half of percussion instrument (5)

13        Work that is suitable for British baritone (4)

15        Worrying performance curtailed – no good holding one note (10)

17        Sixth in scale possibly responsible for bad minuets (10)

19        Instrument starts in one bar, one lacking heart (4)

20        Took a risk – moved quickly, missing entry for trombone (5)

22        Second note in scale one in group has to recall (8)

24        Not entirely fast, not entirely contemporary, not entirely surmounting (8)

25        Individual penning openings of symphonies in Darmstadt, in a position to score (6)

26        Took revenge at the music publishers? (7,3,5)

DOWN

2          Small room one used for string instruments (5)

3          Grace note unusually tormented and driven (8,7)

4          Strauss’s inspiration kept up in recording – editor’s moved (9)

5          Supportive of sealing off entries to old Grimes’s hut, accompanied by note – from this? (7)

6          Release a French piano, say (5)

7          This contains several songs – mouth is confused with variety (3,5,2,5)

8          Finnish composer who could make monk irate (9)

14        Some ready formerly to hammer away at F sharp, say (5,4)

16        Extreme dithering about musical work picked up without rehearsal (9)

18        Song left in transport hub (7)

21        Accompanist with inclination to follow Schubert piece (5)

23        Senior British conductor (5)

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