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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. 

 

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

Facts CD/LP Digital

Item number
2065727
UPC number
880242657275
Region code
0
Sound format
PCM Stereo
Release
Total running time
57 mins
No. of discs
1
Recording
2020