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BBC Music Magazine January 2015

ACROSS

1              Love to get in dancing step – has dancing gear (3-5)

5              Skilled soprano blocking very curtailed edition (6)

10           Some term in orchestration: description of scale (5)

11           Comments about pantomime that’s ignored in piece of musical theatre (5,4)

12           Conductor upset by pokey intervals (6,8)

14           Readily agreeing about Schubert work that can be corrected (9)

16           Some of the art Holst exhibited? (Actually, no) (5)

17           Unpleasant note – a real mess (5)

19           Mocking aria – it’s complicated involving contralto’s opening line (9)

21           Handel work requiring review of scale data again (4,3,7)

25           See 1 down

26           Recalled small piece – two lines – something menacing from Grieg? (5)

27           Least common element of Elektra restored (6)

28           German composer’s a media personality, we hear (8)

DOWN

1/25       Indicator of rhythm unites ragtime dances (4,9)

2              Severely criticise entries of chorus and King – even make-up (7)

3              Her lurid delivery finally broadcast molto allegro? (9)

4              Barber work in E flat, for instance (5)

6              Conductor’s a senior figure (5)

7              Composer and organist, one giving marks (7)

8              Nothing found in his CD pile, possibly? Quite the reverse! (10)

9              Sad wager about a type of Jamaican pop (4,4)

13           Hunts arena to be developed for opera (10)

15           Fool beginning to drill into Birmingham percussion nstrument (4,4)

16           European articles about unknown in Weber opera (9)

18           Second success achieved by German big-band player (7)

20           Strange romance shown by violin centre (7)

22           Mother’s enthralled by a second American composer (5)

23           British singer engaged in serenade leisurely (5)

24           I left a note for conductor Volkov (4)

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