Forget Cern. Claudio Abbado has just revealed the secrets of the universe

Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Chorus's astonishing performance of Brucker exemplifies mathematician Roger Penrose's idea that time goes round in loopsSomething weird happened last week at the Royal Festival Hall. At the end of Claudio Abbado's performance of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, what I experienced – along with thousands of others in the hall, and thousands more listening on Radio 3 – felt like a vision of infinity, a collapsing of time and space i...

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