The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 24,134 - Jul 20 2007

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Clues Answers
A leading singer, missing very briefly, returned in opera AIDA
Apparatus for capturing performance of woodwind instrument RECORDER
As required by patron, do special pieces of music RONDOS
Chants arranged as piece of music SNATCH
Composer and old lover dividing half of score TELEMANN
Composer's tangles RAVELS
Concert's opening with dance by popular composer CHOPIN
Conductor didn't allow listening to original recording BANDMASTER
Creating harmony with a ringing sound without turning head ATTUNING
Drum offered by male to maiden TOMTOM
Drums of one sailor used in another's backing TABLAS
Drunken revelry's beginning with vodka for noted Czech DVORAK
Hurry central section in conducting passage conveying emotional response TEARDUCT
Clues Answers
Mars, for example, part of thematic composition PLANET
Music makers play casually in a form of tennis INSTRUMENTS
Musical genius carries little weight in the marketplace MOZART
Mussorgsky providing sets of notes ahead of time MODEST
Old instrument and piano at home in collection SPINET
Part of brass band runs into grave individual TROMBONE
Player at higher pitch missing opening HARPER
Religious music with archaically grotesque line in church CANTICLE
Religious works as originally scored CREDOS
Some of the strings in a big Strauss composition BASSGUITARS
Something child plays with famous conductor RATTLE
Source of notes of Bank of England, originally OBOE
Support for performer in mass - solo is cut out MUSICSTOOL