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A new work by Steve Reich shared the stage with two Beethoven favorites. While neither composer particularly illuminated the other, they shared their program nicely.

The LSO served up a lively programme of genre-defying UK premières at the Barbican. 

Susanna Mälkki’s choppy, uneven Mahler 5, preceded by a Steve Reich world première.