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The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s music director has put together an ambitious season of works about home
Louis Andriessen’s quasi-opera is an orchestral onslaught staged with visual invention
The composer’s bizarre, outrageously complex work was an assault on the senses
Heiner Goebbels’ eccentric masterpiece meets Robert Wilson’s staging of Lachenmann’s fairy-tale
Performed on reconstructed instruments, Harry Partch’s work abandons conventional tonality
Avant-garde music should have the power to challenge and shock – but this was merely boring
Heiner Goebbels’s signature work captured the impersonal personality of the modern metropolis
Frankfurt-based Heiner Goebbels talks about his creative approach as a composer and director
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