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Lyon Opera Ballet: Trois Grandes Fugues review " breathtaking battles with Beethoven

by Judith Mackrell

Sadler's Wells, LondonIn a magisterial triple bill, Lucinda Childs, Maguy Marin and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker let us hear, see and feel the composer's classic in exhilarating ways'A confusion of babel … indecipherable uncorrected horror." When critics first heard Beethoven's 1825 Grosse Fuge, many were bewildered by the barbed-wire intensity of its contrapuntal writing, its uncategorisable form. Now it is consider…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:24am on October 20, 2017