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  • Ligeti’s riot through history

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    Image via Wikipedia A UK production of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre is reviewed. It takes all of about five seconds before you realise that Hungarian composer György Ligeti‘s Le Grand Macabre is an opera of the unexpected. The piece starts with a prelude – a conventional enough idea, except that instead of being played by…