Shortly before arriving in our country on the show “Music Critic”, the great actor John Malkovich sends a video to greet the Greek audience.

“Hi. My name is John Malkovich and I just want to say hello and see you at the Music Critic show in Athens on October 5 and 6. See you there,” says the famous actor.

The Music Critic project is the idea and creation of the famous violinist, composer, producer and actor Alexei Igudesman.

What we’ll see in Music Criticism with John Malkovich

Schumann “just imagines himself a composer” whereas Brahms is “a bastard with no musical ability” and Debussy is “just ugly”.

Aleksey Igudesman creates a sardonic mix of the worst – and rather unexpected – music reviews of the last centuries, written by the world’s most famous music critics on some of the greatest works of world music, and John Malkovich, with amazing skill, plays the role of a bad critic who considers the music of Beethoven, Chopin, Prokofiev and many others are just boring and dull.

The evening ends with “Torture” by Malkovich, once a terrible review was written about him …

The performance features live excerpts from the music of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, Debussy, Prokofiev, Izaya, Kancheli, Piazzolla and the creator of the performance Alexei Igudesman. others and renowned pianist Hyung-ki Joo.

This important recall is a partnership between the Cultural Organization “Likofos” of Giorgos Likiardopoulos, after the big recalls he is doing from abroad (Monica Bellucci, Maria Callas: letters and memories, Irodeio 2021 etc.) and Intershow Productions.

Odds

• John Malkovich – Narration
• Alexey Igudesman – Violin 1
• So-ok Kim – Violin 2
• Max Bailey – Viola
• David Cohen – cello
• Hyun-ki Joo – piano

The show is presented with Greek subtitles.