Across
5 Words to a popular song (5)
6 Simple woodwind instrument, forerunner of the flute (8)
8 Contemporary Russian conductor, Yuri (7)
9 One of the 'modes', numbered X1 (anag. of 'Oi, Nina!') (6)
10 Folk-rock musical from the late 1960s (4)
12 Full name of Hungarian composer of e.g. '(Duke) Bluebeard's Castle' (4,6)
14 Special ability some musicians have to name a note from its sound alone (8,5)
17 Type of tuba named after US band-master and composer (10)
20 Probably best known for his Carmina Burana (4)
21 Ragtime composer Scott, or rock singer Janis (6)
23 Another name for alto saxhorn in E flat (7)
25 A medieval, trapeze-shaped string instrument (8)
26 Say, Anne-Sophie's gone topless! (5)
Down
1 - - - - Mass, nickname for Haydn's Mass in C (4)
2 Austrian-born pianist, Artur, who died in 1951 (8)
3 Welsh singer. - - - - Terfel (4)
4 To be played smoothly, with the notes running into each other (6)
5 Milan's famous opera house (2,5)
6 Famous nickname for Chopin's Etude in C minor, op.10 (13)
7 Ascend (5)
11 Silent intervals in music (5)
13 Style of art, music, etc. which harks back to the past (5)
15 Device for plucking a guitar's strings (8)
16 Nickname of Mozart's Symphony no. 35 in D (7)
18 Player such as Heinz Holliger (6)
19 Manuel - - - - - , composer of 'Concierto del sur' for guitar (5)
22 Pianist John, winner of Moscow Tchaikovsky comp. 1970 (4)
24 First name of conductor, Klemperer (4)
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