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BBC Music Magazine November 2011

Solution grid

ACROSS

1              Instruments possibly producing mostly sombre tone (9)

6              Item on recording, last in first display stand (5)

9              Drive mad a French member of musical comedy duo? (7)

10           Me and father participating in no Beethoven overture (4-3)

11           Something advertising piano revival in certain pop music (5)

13           Minor Puccini character in serious situation is overlooked with the Devil around (9)

14           Holst ballet: offer help etc to reworking (3,7,4)

18           Amiable London playing, swamping start of extravagant Verdi aria (2,5,1,6)

20           Music academy engaged in breakdown of a model musical form (9)

23           Composer’s anger about line done backwards (5)

24           Studied under guidance, acquiring appreciation of music, note (7)

25           Joplin piece scoundrel used as bait? (7)

27           Test a soprano, for example (5)

28           Bill, one working to secure string instrument (9)

DOWN

1              Brass players beginning to tend odd creatures at home (8)

2              Strauss buffoon cut short exclamation at Scottish Opera? (3)

3              Spanish highwayman a new dancer originally depicted in Ravel’s music (9)

4              Christmas songs very lacking in fictional works (5)

5              Boy’s good on avoiding storm in winter’s journey? (4,5)

6              Musical speeds one piano satisfied, on reflection (5)

7              A University preparation not against playing to secure a job? (11)

8              Playing the piano, say, very important, in one sharp (6)

12           They’re seen at Covent Garden, say, dancing coarse polka (5-6)

15           Sibelius piece is fine away from the sea, in Aldershot, primarily (9)

16           German Baroque composer frequently clutching gown (German) (9)

17           G&S lead, perhaps, creature of the sea, covering tracks (8)

19           Excellent fruit picked up by Liverpudlian opera heroine (6)

21           French composer’s loud sound, definitely without heart (5)

22           French composer with the golden touch? (5)

26           Tokyo bitterly restricts band familiar to Takemitsu (3)

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