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THE MALKOVICH TORMENT is the final piece of the project "The Music Critic" premiered at Julian Rachlin & Friends festival 2010. The text is a translation from an original critic about an appearance of John Malkovich in Istanbul. The music is composed by Aleksey Igudesman.

THE MUSIC CRITIC
Schumann fancies himself a "composer" while Brahms is a gift-less bastard and Debussy is simply ugly. Igudesman has created a sardonic melange of the most evil original music critiques of the last centuries many of them written about some of the greatest works of chamber music. Malkovich slips into the role of the evil music critic, who believes the music of Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel and the like to be weary and dreary, while Julian Rachlin and other great musicians beg to differ.

Music by Bach, Piazzolla, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, Kanchelli, Prokofiev, Schumann and Igudesman.

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