Back to Catalogue

John Malkovich in The Music Critic

John Malkovich narrator | Aleksey Igudesman violin | So-Ock Kim violin | Max Baille viola | Tanja Tetzlaff cello | Hyung-Ki Joo piano

Aleksey Igudesman has created a sardonic mix of the most evil music critiques of the last centuries written about some of the greatest works of music. Equipped with a frivolous potpourri of musical insults, John Malkovich slips into the role of the evil critic who believes the music of Beethoven, Chopin, Prokofiev and the likes to be weary and dreary. Aleksey Igudesman, Hyung-ki Joo and other great musicians beg to differ and fight back. “Schumann fancies himself a ‘composer’, while Brahms is a ‘giftless bastard’ and Claude Debussy is simply ugly.” The grand finale is ‘The Malkovich Torment’ which a horrific review about Malkovich himself. 

Repertoire

Music by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Dvorak, Brahms, Schumann, Debussy, Kanchelli, Piazzolla and Igudesman

Facts Digital

Item number
4056813250817
Region code
0
Picture format
NTSC 16:9
Release
Total running time
77 mins
Subtitles
English
Recording
2020